Daily Practice

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28th March 1984

5 questions · Years 5-6 · 2790 questions in this band

1
Comprehension: Fiction Set 4
Explain in one sentence why the writer describes the wind as finding 'a gap to slip through' rather than simply saying it blew through a gap.
2
Comprehension: Fiction: Practice Set 2
Name the simile used to describe the coach's whistle.
3
Comprehension: Non-Fiction
True or False: According to the sentence 'The bridge, though costly to build, has cut journey times by half', the bridge was cheap to build.
4
Cloze and Sentence Completion Set 2
Cloze: Complete the gap using a word from this bank (although, because, however, before): 'The match was cancelled ___ the pitch was flooded.'
5
Creative and Persuasive Writing Prompts
A pupil is given a single-word prompt: 'Forgotten'. Give one specific angle they could choose rather than trying to cover every possible meaning of the word.

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