Dear Students: I hope you are having an excellent, nice day!
This assignment will give you practice with comprehension. Comprehension is understanding what you read. If you read something, and you don't understand it, then it would be a waste of your precious time. So let's first think about some strategies for comprehension.
Clap out com-pre-hen-sion: the word has 4 syllables. For fun, let's learn four strategies.
1) Very quickly read through the questions before you read the passage.
2) Read the passage while underlining key words. Be sure not to underline everything!
3) Start answering the questions, and be sure to look back at the passage for the answer.
4) Use context clues to figure out meaning of words (definitions).
There are many other strategies, but the four above will help you get started in becoming a super comprehender!
Here is the passage from Matilda by Roald Dahl.
Chapter Title: Miss Honey
Matilda was a little late in starting school. Most children begin Primary School at five or even just before, but Matilda's parents, who weren't very concerned one way or the other about their daughter's education, had forgotten to make the proper arrangements in advance. She was five and a half when she entered school for the first time.
The village school for younger children was a bleak brick building called Crunchem Hall Primary School. It had about two hundred and fifty pupils ages from five to just under twelve years old. The head teacher, the boss, the supreme commander of this establishment was a formidable middle-aged lady whose name was Miss Trunchbull.
Comprehension Questions:
1) Why did Matilda start school so late compared to other children?
2) The author, Dahl, uses alliteration in the passage. Alliteration is where many of the words start with the same letter. Example: The green glue stuck onto the glass. g - g- g. Please find the words in the passage that show alliteration.
3) What does the word pupil mean in the passage?
4) Who is Miss Trunchbull, and how is she described in the passage? List the adjectives.
Go back one more time, and double check to see if you have answered your questions completely.
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