Y4 Reading week 6

Please date and title your work and don’t forget to frame your answers. Day 1 The Bottom of the Stairs Catherine had never been afraid of the dark. To her, the dark night was where adventures happened, where ogres fought each other in the forest and where dragons flew through the blackened sky. She had never been afraid of the dark before, so why should she start being afraid now? Catherine trod carefully, the air was becoming warm and wet as she descended into the basement. She arrived at the bottom of the stairs and a long tiled corridor stretched out before her. At the end of the corridor was a door with a deep red glow shining through. “The dragon,” she said to herself, and crept towards the door.

Questions 1. What does Catherine imagine happens in the dark?

2. Why might Catherine have been too hot in the basement? 3. How might you have felt going down the stairs into the basement?

4. Why would Catherine need to creep towards the open door?

5. In what part of the text do Catherine’s adventures begin?

6. Why might the writer have described a deep red glow shining through the door?

7. What do you think the writer wants us to understand about Catherine? 8. Do the dragons and ogres in this story make any link to another type of story?

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Day 2

Questions

1. Why did the author finish with ‘there are some facts that might surprise you’ and add this ‘….. ‘ afterwards?

2. Why has the author put (meat eaters) in brackets?

3. Why has the author used the phrase ‘would you believe it’ when talking about sharks eating seagulls?

4. Why has the author used the words ‘double decker’ when talking about 14m?

5. Why has the author used the exclamation mark at the end?

6. Why has the author used the phrase ‘strangely enough’?

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Day 3- Evacuation

When you read it is important to use clues from pictures as well as the text to make sense of what you are reading. Here you just have a picture titled ‘Evacuation’ and you need to study this carefully and use the clues in what you see to answer the questions. Questions

1. Why are all these people on a boat?

2. What has happened?

3. How do they feel about it?

4. How did they manage to get so much on a boat ( including a house!)?

5. Where do you think this is and why?

6. Why aren’t there any other boats?

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Day 4 Newspaper Report

Questions

1. What book made the water vole famous? 2. How many water voles have been released at Brandon Nature Reserve? 3. Why has the number of water voles been going down? 4. How will scientists be able to record the distances water voles travel? 5. Find and copy one word in the text that means set free. 6. The article has photographs. What is the purpose of the photographs? 7. Why is Return of the water vole a suitable title for this article? 8. Why did the journalist say destruction of habitat instead of loss?

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Day 5 Play scripts

Y4 Reading week 6

Y4 Reading week 6

Questions 1. Which is the first character we meet during Scene 1?

2. Which two people run on stage when The Master calls?

3. Number these events 1-4 to show the order they happen:

Oliver walks towards The Master Five workhouse orphans walk across the stage

All orphans move through the door Orphans around the table gasp 4. Draw four lines to match the character to the speech:

5. They lie on the floors with their stomachs rumbling. What does this sentence imply about the children? 6. One of us should say something. We should ask for more food. According to the stage directions, how should Boy 2 say this line? 7. Explain why Oliver was no longer able to live with Mrs Mann.

Boy 2

Oliver

He did, sir.

What?!

The Master

Mr Bumble

What about you, Oliver?

Please, Sir, I want some more.