English KS2 2016

Year 3 Reading Assessment

Answer Booklet

First Name

Middle Name

Last Name

Date of Birth Day Month Year

School Name

DfE Number

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Year 3 Reading Assessment Fiction
18
total marks

Questions 1 to 15 are about ‘George the Giant Tortoise’

1. Who was Oliver? Circle one.

1 mark

a giant turtle a giant a cat an owner

2. Which one of these did George like to eat? Tick one.

1 mark

tulips biscuits

grass and hay sandwiches

3. Who was Jack? Circle one.

1 mark

the tortoise Oliver’s friend Grandpa a neighbour

4. He was quite a rare type of tortoise...

1 mark

Draw the line to show the phrase that is closest in meaning to quite a rare type of tortoise.

quite an unusual type of tortoise

quite a rare type of tortoise quite a strange type of tortoise

quite a good type of tortoise

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5. Where did George live?

1 mark

6. How did George feel towards his owner? Circle one.

1 mark

angry patient grateful unhappy

7. Look at the text again.

2 marks

Find and copy the information from the text to complete the fact file below about George.

Name George

Type of Tortoise

Owner

Favourite Foods

8. Who could not enter the ‘Perfect Pet Competition’?

1 mark

9. Look at the paragraph beginning As summer approached…

1 mark

Find and copy a word from this paragraph that means yearly.

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10. Describe how George managed to enter the competition.

2 marks
Give two ways.

11. Look at the paragraph beginning ‘Just furry creatures?’…

1 mark

Find and copy one phrase which shows that George was not supposed to be out in
the garden alone.

12. Look at the paragraph beginning When the day of the fair arrived…
1 mark

Find and copy one phrase in this paragraph that suggests something special or unusual.

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13. Order these events as they happen in the story. Number them 1, 2, 3, 4.
The first one has been done for you. 1 mark

George emerges in front of the stage.

The ‘Perfect Pet Competition’ is advertised. 1

George begins to dig a hole.

George wins a big blue rosette.

14. Everyone burst into a round of applause. (Paragraph 9).

2 marks

Explain why everyone started clapping.

Give two reasons

1. 

2. 

15. Find and copy a phrase that tells us that Oliver was keen to see his pet at the end of
1 mark
this story.

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Year 3 Reading Assessment Non-Fiction
17
total marks

Questions 16 to 27 are about ‘Sharks’

16. What allows sharks to be flexible?

1 mark


17. How many varieties of shark are there?

1 mark

18. Draw a line to match the heading with the information provided in each text box of Shark
Infested Facts 2 marks

an explanation about how sharks are

A Shark’s Body
designed to find and eat their prey

Fun Facts an explanation of what sharks are

a short description of the range of shark

What Are Sharks?
species and their history

Going Back In Time... simple statements about sharks

a description of the different body parts,

Terrifying Teeth
including statements about them

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19. Look at the section headed: Fun Facts…

1 mark
Find and copy a phrase that proves that sharks are older than dinosaurs.

20. Why do you think the sawshark has its name?

1 mark

21. How does having many rows of teeth help a shark to survive?
2 marks

22. Fill in the table below.

1 mark

Name of shark What it does

This can grow as large as a bus.

This can kill and shred its prey before eating it.

Hornshark

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23. Explain why you think sharks are seen as terrifying.

2 marks
Explain fully referring to the text in your answer.

24. Look at the section headed: A Shark’s Body

1 mark

Find and copy one phrase that shows that a nurse shark has gills that perform two jobs.




25. What does the word ‘jagged’ mean?

1 mark

26. Look at the text again.

2 marks

Tick to show which statements about sharks are true and which are false.

Statement True False

Sharks’ skeletons are made of cartilage.

The Great White Shark can eat large mammals.

Sharks’ teeth cannot be replaced once broken.

A set of bongo drums was once found in a
hammerhead shark’s stomach.

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27. What ideas are we given about how a shark’s body is adapted to help it survive?
2 marks

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Year 3 Reading Assessment Poetry
15
total marks

Questions 28 to 35 are about the poem ‘Bed In Summer’

28. What is this poem about?

1 mark


29. Choose the best word or group of words to fit the sentences below and put a ring around
your choice. 4 marks

a. The seasons mentioned in this poem are

autumn
spring and spring and summer winter and
and
summer. autumn. and winter. summer.
summer.

b. The child has to go to bed

while it is with the all the when he is

early.
still light. grown-ups. time. ill.

c. As he goes to bed he can hear and see

teddy birds and

birds and traffic and birds and
bears and people’s
children. people. pyjamas.
blue sky. feet.

d. The poet finds it hard

to go to
to go to
bed when to go to to go to to go to
bed before
there is bed while bed when bed all the
the grown-
a lot of it is light. it is cold. time.
ups.
noise.

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30. Look at the verse beginning: In winter I get up at night.

1 mark
Find and copy a phrase that indicates that it is dark.

31. ‘I have to go to bed and see

The birds still hopping on the tree.’ (verse 2) 2 marks

How does this show us the poet’s feelings about going to bed?

32. Use the text below to answer questions 5 (a) and (b).
2 marks

And does it not seem hard to you,

When all the sky is clear and blue,
And I should like so much to play,
To have to go to bed by day?

(a). Underline the verb that shows what the poet would prefer to be doing.
(b). Find and copy the phrase that suggests that the poet does not want to go to bed.

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33. How does this poem make you feel sorry for the poet?
Give three ways. 3 marks

1. 

2. 

3. 

34. What do phrases such as dress by yellow candle-light tell you about this poem?
1 mark

35. Look at the poem again.

1 mark

Find and copy one sentence that shows that the poet is young.

End of questions about ‘Bed In Summer’

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