A cloze passage about reading pictograms for Year 2 maths. Pupils fill twelve blanks in the story of Class 2's favourite playground game survey, choosing words such as key, symbol, data and fewest from the word bank. The answer key shows the completed passage. Targets two England National Curriculum statistics objectives.
Statistics
“Interpret and construct simple pictograms, tally charts, block diagrams and simple tables”
The passage walks through how a pictogram is built and read.
Statistics
“Ask and answer simple questions by counting the number of objects in each category and sorting the categories by quantity”
Most and fewest gaps rehearse the comparing vocabulary.
Twelve words including key, symbol, data, pictogram, most and fewest.
A five-paragraph passage with twelve gaps about Class 2's survey.
Numbered answers plus the completed passage with the words in bold.
Vocabulary recap
Set it after a practical pictogram lesson to fix the key terms.
Homework
The word bank makes it self-supporting at home.
Intervention
Read it together with pupils who can count symbols but cannot use the key.
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