Reading Assessment Non-Fiction Answers
questions Answers Mark Notes
16 In which continent can people find India?
Content domain: 2b - retrieve and record
information/identify key details from
Asia 1 mark fiction and non-fiction.
Award 1 mark for the correct
answer indicated.
17 What is special about the Himalayan Mountains?
Content domain: 2b - retrieve and record
information/identify key details from
...the highest mountain range in the world. 1 mark fiction and non-fiction.
Award 1 mark for the correct
answer indicated.
18 Look at The People and Their Religions. Find and copy a word that means the same as 'fast'.
Content domain: 2a - give/explain the
meaning of words in context.
rapid 1 mark
Award 1 mark for the correct
answer indicated.
19 Why are animals and farming important to India?
Content domain: 2d - make inferences
from the text/explain and justify
inferences with evidence from the text.
India has a growing population. 1 mark Award 1 mark for answers that refer
to India being a growing population/ a
population that will need to be fed in
the future.
According to The People and Their Religions, what may happen if Indian farming does not
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continue to produce more and more food into the future?
Content domain: 2e - predict what might
There will not be enough food to feed the happen from details stated and implied.
1 mark
population. Award 1 mark for answers that refer to
a food shortage/not enough food.
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Reading Assessment Non-Fiction Answers
questions Answers Mark Notes
Look at the text about Diwali - The Festival of Light. How do Hindus prepare for this festival?
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Give three examples.
• burning clay lamps
• cleaning homes
• decorating homes/jasmine/flowers/
decorating cities
• making Indian sweets/special food Content domain: 2b - retrieve and record
information/identify key details from
• sharing (special) food with family and fiction and non-fiction.
friends
up to 2 Award 2 marks for any three of the
• visit temples
answers indicated.
• dressing in fine clothes
Award 1 mark for any two of the answers
• firework displays indicated.
• light firecrackers/frighten off evil
spirits
• presents
• parties
22 How does the goddess Lakshmi know to come into people's homes?
Content domain: 2b - retrieve and record
information/identify key details from
lights/clay lamps 1 mark fiction and non-fiction.
Award 1 mark for answers that refer to
using lights/clay lamps.
23 Why do Hindus light firecrackers?
Content domain: 2b - retrieve and record
information/identify key details from
...frighten off evil spirits. 1 mark fiction and non-fiction.
Award 1 mark for the correct answer
indicated.
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Reading Assessment Non-Fiction Answers
questions Answers Mark Notes
24 Fill in the table below.
How this helps the
Characteristic
animal survive.
Content domain: 2b - retrieve and record
speedy and Catches prey information/identify key details from
powerful quickly fiction and non-fiction.
up to 2 Award 2 marks for both of the answers
Acts like a winter indicated
thick coat coat/keep the Award 1 mark for one of the answers
leopards warm. indicated.
Behave like snow
shoes/allow the
big paws
animal to travel
about easily.
25 Find and copy one word which shows that there are not many snow leopards.
Content domain: 2a - give/explain the
meaning of words in context.
rarest 1 mark
Award 1 mark for the correct answer
indicated.
26 Explain where you might find a text similar to this. Tick one.
Content domain: 2b - retrieve and record
information/identify key details from
Geography book 1 mark fiction and non-fiction.
Award 1 mark for the correct option
indicated.
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Reading Assessment Non-Fiction Answers
questions Answers Mark Notes
27 Draw a line to match the title to the content.
The People and Their Religions - The
population of India continues to grow at
a rapid rate. Content domain: 2c - summarise main
ideas from more than one paragraph.
Wildlife - Snow Leopards' feet act like
snow shoes in the wild. Award 2 marks for all five correctly
Diwali - The Festival of Light - People matched.
up to 2
dress in fine clothes, eat special sweets Award 1 mark for three or four correctly
and light their homes. matched.
Food - Indians use their fingers rather
Award 0 marks for less than three
than knives and forks when eating.
correctly matched.
Land - India experiences all sorts of
extreme weather conditions.
28 Name India's longest river.
Content domain: 2b - retrieve and record
information/identify key details from
Ganges 1 mark fiction and non-fiction.
Award 1 mark for the correct answer
indicated.
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