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Standard 5 · SEA English Language Arts

Fiction: Character, Evidence and Vocabulary

Read stories and poems closely. Say what a character is like, prove it with a detail from the text, and work out hard words from the clues around them. Each exercise marks itself as your child goes, explains the answer, and awards stars.

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Saying what a character is likeProving it with a detail from the textHow a character feels, and the clue that shows itWhy a character does somethingHow a character changesComparing two charactersWorking out what the writer hintsOrder of eventsTitles and lessonsWorking out a word from the sentence around itExplaining a phrase in plain wordsCharacters in poems, with line numbers
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The Borrowed Bicycle
The Last Mango
The Spelling Bee
Devon and the Puppy
Gran at the Market
Priya and Kemar
The New Girl
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