A two-page cloze on reading tables and timetables for Year 5 maths. Pupils fill twelve gaps in a passage about bus times and two-way tables, choosing from a word bank that includes three distractors such as graph and multiply. The answer key lists every correct word. It supports the England National Curriculum objective on completing and interpreting tables and timetables.
Statistics
“Complete, read and interpret information in tables, including timetables.”
The passage secures the vocabulary pupils need before interpreting real timetables.
Fifteen terms including row, column, depart, arrive and three distractors.
A twelve-gap passage on how to read tables and bus timetables.
All twelve correct answers listed.
Vocabulary focus
Run it before a timetable lesson so terms like depart and column are settled.
Homework
Short, self-contained and easy to mark from the key.
Intervention
Read the passage aloud with pupils who muddle rows and columns.
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