Starter Level Worksheet

Blue Fins
Sarah Axten

A Before Reading

1 What kind of animal is on the cover:

YES/NO
(a) a whale? .............
(b) a shark? .............
(c) a dolphin? .............

B While Reading

2 Start reading. Read to the end of page 5. Look at these pictures of Jen and Rick. Complete the
sentences.

Rick’s surfboard is ............... and ...............

Jen has ............... hair.

Rick has ............... hair.

Jen is wearing a ...............
swimming costume.

Jen has a ............... mask

and snorkel.

Rick is wearing ............... shorts.

Jen has ............... rubber fins.

3 Read to the end of page 11. Write four things Jen sees under the water. Look at pages 6 and 7.
(a) .................................................... (b) ....................................................
(c) .................................................... (d) ....................................................

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4 Put these sentences in the correct order.

The dolphin moves its fins slowly.

1 Jen dives down under the water again.

The dolphin cannot swim up to get air.
The dolphin swims away.
Jen pulls the net from the dolphin.
Jen sees a dolphin.
The dolphin is out of the net.
The dolphin is in a net.

C After Reading

5 Find the answers. Complete the crossword.

DOWN
1 2 1 Jen and Rick are not at
college. It is the ...
3
2 The animal has long, sharp
teeth.
6 The dolphin is dying. It
4
cannot swim up to get ...
5 6 8 This thing is round the
rocks.
9 10
9 The blue dolphin is ...
7 8 10 This animal saves Rick and
Jen from the shark.
11 Jen sees fish and ... in the
11
sea.
14 The sun is ...

12
ACROSS
2 People do this in water.
3 On page 3, Jen is on the ...
14
4 The net is round the ...
5 People drink this. They also
13 swim in it.
7 Sharks are ...
12 The water is ...
13 Jen has a mask, a ... and
rubber fins.

Ski Race by Eleanor Jupp is another Starter Level Reader.

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