Reading Comprehension Test with Answers

Reading - comprehension

“Retrieve, record and present information from non-fiction”

Questions 7, 8a, 8b and 10 send pupils back to Text 2 for the bee roles, the three-mile flight, the waggle dance and the smoker.

Reading - comprehension

“Drawing inferences such as inferring characters' feelings, thoughts and motives from their actions, and justifying inferences with evidence”

Question 3 asks for two clues that the beekeeper left only minutes ago, such as the warm smoker.

Reading - comprehension

“Predicting what might happen from details stated and implied”

Question 6 asks what happens after the twig snaps and how Grandad Arthur will react, using the notebook line as evidence.

Reading - comprehension

“Discuss and evaluate how authors use language, including figurative language, considering the impact on the reader”

Question 4 asks how the writer builds tension, and Question 9 asks why the twelfth of a teaspoon detail is there.

Reading - comprehension

“Making comparisons within and across books”

Questions 11 and 12 match details across the story and the non-fiction text.