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Year 5 Reading Challenge Summer 1

Miss Akhtar

Here is your reading challenge for this term! Each challenge has a comprehension question and a more open-ended task.

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Bronze

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Summarise what you now know about Shakespeare.

Silver

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Create an advert to persuade people to watch one of Shakespeare’s plays.

Gold

Why did Shakespeare visit his home in Stratford so infrequently?

Using the information, as well as some independent research, create your own text about Shakespeare. (Remember to include beautiful pictures).

8 responses to “Year 5 Reading Challenge Summer 1”

  1. Meena B.

    BRONZE:
    1. William got married to Anne Hathaway.
    Anne gave birth to twins.
    He bought New Place.
    William was baptised.
    2. Frustration.
    3. William Shakespeare was married to Anne Hathaway and had twins. He was born and buried at Stratford Upon Avon.

    SILVER:
    William Shakespeare wrote comedy and tragedy plays which were about jealousy, anger, love and more.

    GOLD:
    William Shakespeare went to his home town, Stratford, because he bought New Place and lived there. He traveled from London to Stratford Upon Avon, and it took him to travel that far for about 3-4 days!

  2. Delilah R.

    Bronze:
    1.William was baptised
    2.He married Anne Hathaway
    3.Anne had twins
    4.He bought a place

    2.Confusion

    Silver:
    Shakespeare wrote his plays so people could relate to them,most of them we’re based on love,anger,jealousy,war religion and romance.

    Gold:
    Shakespeare didnt frequently visit his home town (stratford) as it was a long journey ,it would take up to 4 days to get there from london by horse.

    Fun Facts!
    1.Shakespeare could not spell.
    2.He got married young.
    3.He wrote atleast 37 plays.
    4.He survived the bubonic plauge.
    5.His house contained as many as 30 rooms.
    6.He never left England.
    7.He wrote over a 150 sonnets and several other poems
    8.Shakespeare’s longest play is hamlet with over 30,000 words it took 4 hours to perform.
    9.One anagram of the letters in William Shakespeare’s name is “I am a weakish speller”.
    10.William Shakespeare is said to have introduced about 3,000 words to the english dictionary.

  3. Hussein H.

    Bronze
    1)4,1,3,2
    Silver
    He had many plays that were tragic.
    Gold
    His house was far because he lived in London.

  4. Adam O.

    Bronze:
    4,1,3,2
    He got baptised
    He got married
    He had twins
    He bought new place.

    2 confusion
    Silver:
    William wrote different plays that had tragedies like disillusionment and misery.

    Gold:
    Because it was very far and he could not go to Stratford.

  5. Haarun M.

    1.
    William Shakespeare got baptists
    2
    Let down
    3. He remarked plays and the themes are
    Jealousy anger love religoues Romance and war

  6. Anish B.

    Bronze:
    1. willam and Annie got married
    2. bought a new house
    3. they give birth to twins
    4. they got baptised
    sliver:
    He wrote about different themes for plays.
    gold:
    Because it very far and it would take ages to get from London to Stratford by horse

  7. Arfa S.

    Bronze
    1. William got baptised.
    2. William got married to Anne
    3. Anne gave birth to two twins
    4. William brought a new place.
    confused

    silver
    he wrote plays and themes about different things and plays.

    gold
    because it was far away it would take days to get there in horse from London to Stratford.

  8. Hudayfa A.

    Bronze:
    William and Anne got married
    Gave birth to twins
    Bought a new house
    Got baptised
    2. Confused
    Silver:
    Themed around Los Angeles moment, including Romeo and Juliet and King Lear he wrote about themes that people can relate to such as anger, jealousy, and love and war
    Gold: that’s where his house he bought was

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