How information

BOOSTER
Objectives
• To identify how information/
narrative content is related and
contributes to meaning as a
whole
• To explain how information/
narrative content is related and
contributes to meaning as a
whole
What the children
need to know
• How to find where information is
related
• How to explain how the
information is related
is related
Support ideas
• Show the children an article from a local newspaper. Talk about how the
information within the article is related. Ask them to give the article a title.
• Show the pupils a series of random sections from a single news article. Ask
the children to work in pairs to put them in the correct order. You could
have them written in a jumbled order on the board to remind the children
so that this does not become a test of memory. The children’s answers
could be given in the form of a flow chart.
• When you have finished a class reader, give the children a series of events
from it and ask them to number them in the order they appear in the story.
• In other subjects, for example history, use a timeline to place events in
order.

Find out more about the National Curriculum Booster Programme at www.scholastic.co.uk/assessment
Reading Year 6
Booster Extra Test: How information is related

Read this text then look at the questions and answers that Marks
follow it:

I needed my pencil case because it had my calculator in it and

without it I couldn’t do my maths homework. Unfortunately, I
had lost it. I looked in my bag but it wasn’t there. A search of
my bedroom revealed nothing, except a sock under the bed.

I decide to ask my mum. Usually she knows where everything

is. This time she didn’t. I looked everywhere, even in the rabbit
hutch! I finally found it in the cat’s basket. How it got there I
don’t know, but I was very pleased to get it back so I could get
my homework done.

1. Find and copy the group of words from the first paragraph
where it becomes clear what the writer’s problem is.

2. What actions does the writer take to try to solve the 1

problem?

1
3. Read the first and last sentences. How do they link
together?

Booster Extra Test

 Reading Year 6
Booster Extra Test: How information is related

Marks

4. Number these events in the order they appear in the text.

The first one has been done for you.

The writer loses the pencil case 1

The writer finds the pencil case

in the cat’s basket

The writer asks mum.

The writer looks in the rabbit hutch

The writer finds a sock under the bed

Booster Extra Test

Booster Extra Test: How information is related

Q Answers Marks

Award 1 mark for either of: I had lost it.

1 1
I couldn’t do my maths homework.

2 Award 1 mark for: Looks for it and asks mum. 1

Award 1 mark for: The first one explains that the pencil
case is missing and that it is needed to do the maths
3 1
homework. The last one tells us that the homework will
be done.
Award 1 mark for all correct:
The writer loses the pencil case. 1
The writer finds the pencil case in the cat’s basket. 5
4 1
The writer asks mum. 3
The writer looks in the rabbit hutch. 4
The writer finds a sock under the bed. 2

Total 4