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PEI EMA Grade 6 study materials
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PEI EMA Grade 6: Reading and Viewing - Grade 6 Literacy

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Reading and Viewing - Grade 6 Literacy

Reading and Viewing tests how well you make meaning from fiction, nonfiction, and multimodal texts such as posters, diagrams, and web pages. Questions ask for main idea, supporting details, inference, vocabulary in context, text structure, author’s purpose, and evidence.

Core reading moves

  • Preview the title, headings, captions, images, and first and last sentences. Ask what the text will likely explain or narrate.
  • Separate topic from main idea. The topic is what the text is about; the main idea is the claim or message about that topic.
  • Build inferences from clues plus background knowledge. A strong inference is supported by more than one detail and does not contradict the text.
  • Track structure: sequence, compare–contrast, cause–effect, problem–solution. Signal words such as because, however, first, and as a result show relationships.
  • In multimodal texts, read words, images, layout, colour, and symbols together. Ask what each element adds, emphasizes, or leaves out.
  • For vocabulary, substitute each choice into the sentence and test logic, tone, and grammar. Look for definition, example, and contrast clues.
  • Summarize in one sentence that names the topic and the most important point.

Worked example

Passage: “The sky turned green-gray, and the wind bent the fence. Mara tied a tarp over the woodpile, moved the lantern inside, and filled two water bottles.” Question: What is Mara most likely preparing for? A. a picnic B. a storm C. a camping trip D. a fire Reasoning: The green-gray sky and bending fence are weather clues. The tarp protects wood from rain, the lantern prepares for darkness, and water prepares for an outage. Together these details support “a storm.” A picnic and a camping trip are contradicted by the protective actions; a fire is not supported. Answer: B.

Traps that cost marks

  • Choosing a real-world true statement that the passage never supports.
  • Confusing the topic with the main idea, or picking a detail as the whole message.
  • Ignoring “best” in a question and selecting a partly true option.
  • Overreading one word instead of weighing all the evidence.
  • Skipping captions, labels, and layout in a viewing text.
  • Using a familiar dictionary meaning that does not fit the sentence.