Reading Comprehension

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Reading Comprehension

YEAR 4

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1 How long has Fishface Freddie been at sea?

2 Circle the word that means the same as strange.

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1 mark

unusual

ugly

imagine 1 mark

3 Fishface Freddie has been at sea longer than Captain Nell. What does Captain Nell say that tells you this?

1 mark

4 Write down the three creatures that Fishface Freddie says he has seen. 1. 2. 3.

2 marks

5 Write down a word that means the same as enormous.

1 mark

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11 Freddie says that he glanced out at sea. What does glanced mean? Tick one.

sailed

rowed

looked

1 mark

12 What do you think the ugly thing was that Freddie saw?

1 mark

13 When Captain Nell asks if the sea was calm, what does she compare the sea to?

1 mark

14 What is Captain Nell doing when she talks about the time she came face to face with a Freddiesquid? Tick one.

telling Freddie a true story playing a joke on Freddie

1 mark

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4 The writer also tries to describe his excitement using a sound. What is it?

1 mark

5 The writer wasn't whale-watching alone. How do you know?

1 mark

6 At what time of day were the dolphins spotted?

1 mark

7 Circle one word that means the same as pod.

game

group

baby

1 mark

8 What word does the writer use to describe dolphins jumping out of the sea?

1 mark

9 What does the writer mistake for a Minke Whale?

1 mark

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A GUIDE TO WHALES

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whale

size

food

offspring special notes

Blue Whale

Minke Whale

Grows to 105 feet or 32 metres. Weight = 190 tons or the same as 20 or more African elephants. Females are larger than males.

Up to 35 feet or 10.7 metres. Weight = 7-11 tons. Females are slightly larger.

Instead of

23 feet at birth

teeth, they have or 7 metres and

rows of comb- 3 tons, babies

like plates for drink up to

filtering krill and 150 gallons of

small fish out of mother's milk

the water. Can every day.

eat 4 tons of

food each day.

Largest and loudest mammal. They make a low whistle heard for 100s of miles. Can live up to 80 years.

Without teeth and a solitary hunter, its food includes krill and small fish.

9 feet or almost 3 metres and ? ton.

Can live up to 50 years. Very curious and swim close to boats.

Orca

Males grow up A toothed whale, 7 feet or around

to 30 feet or just it eats fish, squid, 2 metres and

over 9 metres; birds and sea 400 pounds.

females are

mammals. They Babies stay

25 feet or 7.6 work in groups with mother for

metres. Weight = and track prey by 2 years. Pods

7-10 tons.

echo-location (groups) are led

(bouncing sound by females.

off objects).

Also known as Killer Whales, they are the largest of the dolphin family of sea mammals. Live 30 ? 50 years. Groups can number as many as 100 Orcas.

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