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**PHOENIX READING WORK WEEK 10**

**School Journal 2000 Part Three Number One**

**CHIRPY**

**Here is a passage from the story. Unfortunately two words were spelt wrongly and eight punctuation errors were made when it was being copied out. Correct each error. The punctuation marks you need to use are listed below the passage.**

 “What the **...** ? **”** demanded a **voice** from behind him. Cam turned round, **“** and the torch beam shone into his face **,** blinding him **.** **T** he **kitchen** light flashed on **.** “ Cam!” said **D** ad. “I came down here and saw the torch **,** and I ** ... ”** His voice faltered.

**... “ “ “,. and two capital letters**

**Below are some statements to do with the article. For each one either agree or disagree with it. Then write a sentence to explain your choice.**

 Insects are pests that should be killed when they come inside **disagree**

 You should not interfere when a cat catches some small creature **agree**

 Cam’s father is sneaky **disagree**

 Cam is a disobedient boy **disagree**

**Writers use adverbs to tell us how things are said.** **e.g. “No!” said Dad** **//sharply.//** **//“//You said you were going to wait till morning to do that,” he said** **//accusingly.//** **//Here are 5 more things said in the story. For each one add an adverb to say how it was probably said. Use a different adverb each time.//**
 * 1)  “Why kill it, Dad?” **asked** Cam
 * 2) <span style="font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"> “I’m too **tired** to argue,” said Dad
 * 3) <span style="font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"> “I **thought** I told you not to shift that dishwasher,” said Dad _
 * 4) <span style="font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"> “This one’s **dead** meat,” said Cam _
 * 5) <span style="font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"> “Noisy **devil** ,” said Dad

<span style="font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">**Complete the sentence below:**

<span style="font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">I think the best word to describe Cam is **nice**

<span style="font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">**Many words appeal to one or more of our senses. For example, if we say something** **//sparkled//** **in the sun we are appealing to the sense of** **sight.****Words like** **//click//** **and** **//crack//** **appeal to our sense of** **sound, while** **//sweet//** **and** **//sour//** **are** **taste** **words. Below is a list of words from this article which appeal to one or more of our senses. List each one in the chart under any sense that is appeals to.**

<span style="font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">**meowing spiky hopped jumped scrunch scuttled chirp wriggle sighed cool rustle shining shrill muttered**

<span style="color: #ff1f17; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">**scuttled** <span style="color: #ff1f17; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">**wriggle** || <span style="color: #ff1f17; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">**spiky** <span style="color: #ff1f17; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">**jumped** <span style="color: #ff1f17; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">**hopped** || <span style="color: #ff1f17; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">**cool** <span style="color: #ff1f17; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">**sighed** ||  || <span style="color: #ff1f17; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">**meowing** <span style="color: #ff1f17; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">**rustle** <span style="color: #ff1f17; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">**chirp** <span style="color: #ff1f17; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">**shrill** <span style="color: #ff1f17; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">**scrunch** ||
 * <span style="font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">**sight** || <span style="font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">**touch** || <span style="font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">**taste** || <span style="font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">**smell** || <span style="font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">**sound** ||
 * <span style="color: #ff1f17; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">**shining**

<span style="color: #1833df; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 23px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">**ALL IN A DAY’S WORK**

<span style="font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">**Use the words below the passage to fill in the gaps in the passage itself**

Becky was very good at spotting **details**. She noticed things that **some** __others missed - like “No Junk Mail” stickers. She had noticed many things about the house at Number 47 Craig Road. The leading to it was dark and__ **weedy** __. The house__ was old and grey, with of rust on its roof. It looked **faded**, and so did the tatty **patches** that hung in the windows. It looked like a house that **should** be **deserted** but someone lived there.

<span style="font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">**curtains** deserted details faded **itself** patches **path** should some weedy

<span style="font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">**Every story has a key moment in it - a moment which shapes everything else that happens in the story. Listed below are some possible key moments in this story. Choose the one you think is the most important. Write a sentence to explain your choice.** <span style="color: #ff1f17; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">**Causes thats the moment that set’s every thing that go’s on in the story like she wouldn’t of had to go to number 47**
 * 1) <span style="font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 19px;">Becky got some extra circulars to deliver
 * 1) <span style="font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 19px;">Becky turned down her mother’s offer to deliver to number 47 for her
 * 2) <span style="font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 19px;">Becky spotted that there was no milk bottle at number 47
 * 3) <span style="font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 19px;">Becky decided to tell her mother about her suspicions
 * 4) <span style="font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 19px;">Becky urged her mother to go round and check out number 47
 * 5) <span style="font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 19px;">Becky’s mum called out “hello” and Becky saw someone move in the house
 * 6) <span style="font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 19px;">The police broke into the house

<span style="font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">**I think the key moment is number 18 because that’s when she started to get scarred and was thinking of go home**

<span style="font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">**Listed below are 4 pairs of details from the story. Each pair can be divided into a cause and an effect. In the space beside each sentence say which is the cause and which is the effect. One has been done for you as an example.**


 * <span style="font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">//effect// || <span style="font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Becky was disappointed || <span style="color: #ff1f17; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">**Becky had to deliver circulars and miss swimming** || <span style="font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">//cause// ||
 * || <span style="font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Becky was good at her job || <span style="color: #ff1f17; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">**Mrs Taylor sent extra circulars for Becky to deliver** ||  ||
 * || <span style="font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Becky felt like a wimp || <span style="font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Becky was scared going down the path at number 47 ||  ||
 * || <span style="color: #ff1f17; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">**There was no empty milk bottle at the gate** || <span style="color: #ff1f17; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">**Becky suspected something was wrong** ||  ||
 * || <span style="font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Becky was given a gold bracelet || <span style="font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Becky’s actions led to the rescue of Mrs Marsh ||  ||

<span style="font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">**Here are some words and phrases that might describe Becky. Choose the two that you think are the most accurate. For each one provide one piece of supporting evidence from the story.**

**alert** sensible easily frightened responsible **brave** polite


 * 1) I think Becky is **Alert** __because__ __**she finds things that others miss like no junk mail signs**__
 * 2) I think Becky is **brave** __because__ __**she faced her fears and when to deliver the mail**__