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Year 6 · English

Explore Meaning

Year 6 learners practise working out word meaning from context.

The activities include Consider Techniques Used in the Poem 'Night Mail', Find Synonyms for Words in a Text, Identify the Meaning of Words in a Story, and related practice. The checked support below includes lesson, teaching, video, worksheet. Open a resource in its provider's website and choose the format that best helps the learner explain the idea independently.

Activities covered

  • Consider Techniques Used in the Poem 'Night Mail'
  • Find Synonyms for Words in a Text
  • Identify the Meaning of Words in a Story
  • Identify Word Meaning
  • Identify Word Meaning in a Non-fiction Text
  • Interpret Information on a Timeline
  • Understand Meaning of Words in a Story
  • Understand the Meaning of Words in a Non-fiction Text

Checked learning resources

  • Twinkl: Planit Y6 Spag Lesson Pack Synonyms And Antonyms

    Twinkl · Lesson · Opens on the provider website

    Twinkl Year 6 resource linked to working out word meaning from context.

  • BBC Bitesize: Language

    BBC Bitesize · Teaching · Opens on the provider website

    BBC KS2 Language support for working out word meaning from context.

  • Working Out Word Meanings from Context Clues | KS2 English Concept Video

    Twinkl · Video · Account may be required

    Models using surrounding words and phrases to work out an unfamiliar word meaning in context. The video models using surrounding story language to infer the meaning of unfamiliar words, exactly matching the worksheet act

  • Who Is Rex Retriever? | KS2 English Concept Video

    Twinkl · Video · Account may be required

    Models how to retrieve explicit information from a text and answer KS2 SATs-style retrieval questions. The video teaches retrieval of explicit information; the accompanying timeline task applies it to dates and events in

  • W. H. Auden: Night Mail — Poem Text

    BBC Teach · Teaching · Opens on the provider website

    BBC schools source sheet provides the complete text of W. H. Auden's Night Mail for close reading of rhyme, rhythm, repetition, personification and the train-like pace of the poem.

  • Oak: Synonyms Antonyms Prepositions And Adverbs

    Oak National Academy · Video · Opens on the provider website

    Year 6 english lesson. I can identify how specific words act on the meaning of a sentence. Words can be related to each other by common features, patterns or meaning. Synonyms and antonyms can be used by writers to vary

  • Year 6 Vocabulary Victor Reading Revision and Practice Booklet

    Twinkl · Lesson · Account may be required

    Year 6 SATs teaching and practice booklet explaining how to answer word-meaning and vocabulary questions, with fiction and non-fiction passages, worked guidance and questions on context, synonyms and selecting vocabulary

  • Year 6 Reading Skills KS2 Bumper Resource Pack

    Twinkl · Lesson · Account may be required

    Verified Year 6 fiction, non-fiction and poetry pack teaching and practising SATs vocabulary questions and word meaning questions alongside retrieval, summarising, inference, prediction, authorial choice and comparison.