Subject: English
Focus: Comprehension
Group: Yellow
Date out: 28.04.16
Date in: 02.05.16
From ‘Vanishing Trick Poems’ by Ros Asquith
Retrieving Information
1) What word does the poet
use as a synonym for ‘hole’?
2) How does the poet say she
must behave towards her
mind?
3) The poet uses the word
‘mind’ in different ways so
that it has different
meanings. Give two examples
from the poem.
Making Inferences
4) Do you think the poet is a
young person or an older
person? Explain why using
evidence from the text.
5) Why do you think the poet
wants their thoughts to “be
mine alone”?
Writer’s choices
6) Why do you think the writer
compares her mind to “paths
and mazes”?
7) Why has the poet chosen to
talk about “wolves” in her
mind?
Challenge question (extended
question)
8) Do you think the poet’s mind
is a happy, sad or angry
place? Support your answer
with examples from the
text.
Subject: English
Focus: Comprehension
Group: Green and Red
From ‘World of Warriors – A New Hero’ by Curtis
Jobling
Date out: 28.04.16
Date in: 02.05.16
Retrieving Information
1) Use a dictionary to find the
definitions for:
resonating
ritual
terrarium
2) Find and copy one word that shows
that Trick’s blazer is old.
3) Find and copy one word that shows
that Trick never forgets to buy his
magazines
Making Inferences
4) What type of creature lives in the
terrarium and how do you know?
5) Why do you think Trick kisses his
necklace?
Writer’s Choices
6) Why has the writer chosen to
describe the knotted tie as “like a
noose”? What does this tell us?
Challenge Question (extended answer)
7) Describe what you think Trick
might be like at school, using
quotes from the text to support
your answer.
Subject: English
Focus: Comprehension
Group: Black and Blue
Date out: 28.04.16
Date in: 02.05.16
The furious farmers began to shout. The Iron Man had stolen all their machinery. What would
he take next time?
They would have to do something.
They couldn’t call in the police or the Army, because nobody would believe them about this
Iron Monster. They would have to do something for themselves. So, what did they do?
At the bottom of the hill, below where the Iron Man had come over the high cliff, they dug a
deep, enormous hole. A hole wider than a house, and as deep as three trees one on top of the
other. It was a colossal hole. A stupendous hole! And the sides of it were as sheer as walls.
1. Why are the farmers so worried?
2. What might the farmers think that the Iron Man could take next time?
3. Why will nobody believe them?
4. Find all the words that the author uses to describe how big the hole is.
5. Give an example of a simile from the text and explain why it is a good way of
describing the thing.
6. What do you think ‘as sheer as walls’ means?
7. Why do you think that the farmers have dug a big hole? What are the planning?
8. Do you think their plan will be successful? Why?