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Year 2, Term 3
Half-term Test

The Missing Hat

One day, Zain and his friend Assad were playing
on the playground. Suddenly, there was a strong
wind and it blew Assad’s hat off his head.

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Zain and Assad chased the hat across the
playground. Soon, they could not see it
any more.
They looked in the bushes, they looked in the
grass and they looked behind the shed. It had
gone.

‘Wait!’ said Assad. ‘What is that in the tree?’

Zain looked. ‘Oh no!’ he said.

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1 Read the sentence: ‘Suddenly, there was
a strong wind and it blew Assad’s hat
off his head.’ Which word could be used
instead of blew? Tick one box.

A sang

B took

C played

D looked
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2 Where does this story take place?

Tick one box.

A on the playground

B at the beach

C at Zain’s house

D at Assad’s house
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3 What did Assad lose? Tick one box.

A 

B 

C 

4 Read the sentence: ‘Zain and Assad

chased the hat across the playground.’
What did the boys do? Tick one box.

A They watched the hat.

B They could not see the hat.

C They cried about the hat.

D They ran after the hat.

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5 Where did Zain and Assad look after
they looked in the bushes?

6 How did Zain and Assad feel at the end

of the story? Tick one box.

A happy

B angry

C shocked

D tired
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7 What was at the top of the tree at the

end of the story?

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8 Which one of these is a sentence?
Tick one box.

A Zain and Assad

B Assad’s hat

C They chased the hat.

D the hat blew

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9 Circle the verb in this sentence and

underline the noun:

They looked for the hat.

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10 Choose the best verb for each sentence.

looked   made   ran

The wind Assad’s hat blow

away.

The boys after the hat.

Zain up at the tree.

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11 Look at what happened next. Write a
sentence for each picture.

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 Total for test = 13 marks

I got out of 13 marks

What went well

How to improve

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