Y5 Standard Comprehension II

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  1. Okay, we'll move on now to our final styles of
  2. standard comprehension question and that's the effects of punctuation and
  3. word class.
  4. So sometimes we are given a passage with interesting vocabulary
  5. or punctuation and we are asked to analyze and understand
  6. why that particular punctuation has been used or why particular
  7. words have been used.
  8. So let's take a look at an example.
  9. Passage, Lucy crept slowly through the dark cave, trying to
  10. avoid being seen.
  11. However, just as she was about to move through the
  12. exit, she heard a thump, thump, thump.
  13. And a example question might be, what effect does the
  14. ellipses have?
  15. So we would answer by saying that it builds a
  16. sense of suspense as the reader knows that something terrible
  17. is getting closer to lucy, but the ellipsis makes the
  18. reader wait to find out what happens next.
  19. So because of that ellipsis, we know that something's going
  20. to happen but we aren't told what.
  21. So we are anticipating it and that makes us tense
  22. and excited and scared.
  23. So here we are.
  24. Yeah. So we don't have to write an awful lot
  25. for this style of question.
  26. But we do need to understand the passage and try
  27. to work out what is being said and use our
  28. own judgment to interpret what we have read.
  29. So there are some advanced skills being used, even if
  30. what we have to write is not as much as
  31. the last questions.
  32. So what effects do the following types of punctuation have?