School Journal Part 3, Number 2, 2000
The Cross-country - Pauline Cartwright
1)    Explain the author's problem. Give a full answer!   [2 marks]
2)    Describe the author's attitude towards the cross-country.   [2 marks]    Help?
3)    What's your opinion about the author's attitude towards the race and winning? Give a full explanation.   [3 marks]    Help?
4)    Explain the picture on pages 20 and 21.   [1 mark]
5)    Pretend you are the author. Pretend you are speaking to the grandad of the story. Explain to him what happened in the race. Don't just focus on what happened, think about how you would have felt.   [2 marks]
6)    In one or two sentences only, give a brief plot summary of this story.   [2 marks]

Growing the Dollars - Sarah Reid
7)    "Samuel is not a particularly nice person." Find evidence from the text which could be used to support this statement.   [3 marks]
8)    "Caleb is a nice person." Give proof from the story for what you say.   [3 marks]   Help?
9)    How did both boys feel at the end of the story and why?   [2 marks]

EACH WORD BELOW IS MISSING CONSONANTS. WRITE THE WHOLE WORD IN YOUR BOOK, THEN GIVE TWO WORDS WHICH RHYME WITH THE ORIGINAL WORD:

12)   _I_O_E_ _E (p2)   [1 mark]
13)   _E_ _I_I_ _ (p2)   [1 mark]
14)   _I_ _IO_A_ _ (p2)   [1 mark]
15)   _O_ _E_ (p2)   [1 mark]

FIND HOMOPHONES IN THE TEXT FOR EACH OF THE WORDS BELOW:

16)   WONDERED (p2)   [1 mark]
17)   STORKS (p3)   [1 mark]
18)   THREW (p6)   [1 mark]
19)   WEIGH (p6)   [1 mark]

20)   Write TWO (2) sentences only. You MUST include any TWO (2) words from numbers 16 - 19 (wondered, storks, threw, weigh) in EACH sentence. (You may not re-use any of the four key words.)   [2 marks]