Stepping Stones I Reading Matters

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A. My Dad

  1. They go to football matches when it rains too.
  2. Gary likes his father.
  3. Gary thinks his father is still very young.
  4. Their favourite team is Arsenal.

B. The Green Ribbon

  1. Alfred knew Jenny from school.
  2. Jenny always wears a green dress.
  3. At the end of the poem, something strange happens.

C. Friends

  1. Graham Foster's friend said things that were very interesting.
  2. Jeremy Watson's friend was jealous.
  3. Katie Walkinshaw is scared of other children.

D. Animals in the Zoo are like People.

  1. There are no elephants in this poem.
  2. Charles Thomson asks the reader of the poem what animal the reader looks like.

E. Bad News Bear

  1. Miss Tate is a teacher (1-5).
  2. The new pupil is called Howard Chester (5-10).
  3. Joe Gardener didn't understand the little joke (15-25).
  4. The person telling the story has often changed school (25-40).
  5. The person telling the story doesn't much like this new school.
  6. Flora and Ben were the blackboard monitors last week (105-120).

F. Two Fables

  1. It was the Tortoise's idea to run a race.
  2. The Tortoise wins the race because the Hare falls asleep.
  3. The Pelican is a very bad guest.
  4. The Pelican didn't like visiting the Crane.
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  5. The Crane is not very sure that he will invite the Pelican again.

G. Uncle Tom's Teeth

  1. Uncle Tom is a man who likes a joke.
  2. Uncle Tom was afraid to go to the dentist's (tandarts).
  3. The children like watching a t.v. show when they are with Uncle Tom (20-27).
  4. Aunty May was very angry with her husband after he had lost his teeth (70-77).

H. Hairy Faces

  1. The writer of this text doesn't like beards on men.
  2. Mr Twit was stupid (32-36).
  3. There was a lot of stuff in Mr Twit's beard (72-110).
  4. Roald Dahl's story is a little bit exaggerated (overdreven).}

I. Oops, excuse me

  1. It is not possible to control all the noises that your body makes (5-15).
  2. Paragraph (alinea) II tells us what you can do if you don't want your body to make noises.
  3. Paragraph III tells us precisely what causes (veroorzaakt) burps.
  4. Paragraph IV tells us that burping is not always such a bad thing.

J. The Wormwood Family at home.

  1. Matilda's father is called Harry.
  2. Matilda's mother didn't like what Mathilda's father said to Matilda (1-5).
  3. Matilda prefers reading a book to watching t.v.
  4. Matilda is upset, because she doesn't want to hate her parents.

K. Shark Bait

  1. Andrew seems to be the leader (1-40).
  2. There are five boys in this story.
  3. First, Harry didn't want to go to the river (1-25).
  4. Walking to the river was easy (34-42).
  5. Harry is a boy who complains (klagen) a lot.
  6. At the end of the story, a shark eats Harry's left shoe.
  7. Andrew almost fell into the water (133-140).