English Year 3 Assessment
This assessment consists of 40 questions. Please answer all the questions. Recommended duration: 60 minutes
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Section A: Reading
1. Look at the first paragraph (lines 3–6).

Give one adjective that means difficult.

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1 point
2. Look at the second paragraph (lines 7–9). 

Name two kinds of desert mentioned in the text.

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2 points
3. Look at the third paragraph (lines 11–14).

Explain how the desert weather is ‘extreme’. Give two ideas.

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2 points
4. Look at line 14.

What kind of word is light in this sentence?

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1 point

5. Look at line 18.

Which word does it replace?.

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1 point

6. Look at lines 19–21.

Give one example of rhyme.

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1 point

7. Look at lines 19–21.

Give one preposition

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1 point

8. Look at lines 19–21.

Give one way sandstorms cause problems.

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1 point
9. Which of these is true of all deserts? *
1 point
10. How does the writer organise the information in Text A? *
1 point
11. What is Text A about?  *
1 point
12. Your friend is doing a school project about Africa. Do you think Text A would help your friend?  *
1 point
TEXT B

13. Look at Section One.

Choose the four words beginning with the letter c in Section One in alphabetical order.

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2 points

14. Look at Section Two.

Where will you find ideas for your designs?

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1 point

15. Look at line 22.

What kind of sentence is this? 

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1 point

16. Look at lines 29–30.

Find a word which means away from each other.

1 point
Clear selection

17. Look at the whole of Text B again.

One phrase from the beginning of a sentence which explains: what time something should be done.

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1 point

18. Look at the whole of Text B again.

One word from the beginning of a sentence which explains: how something should be done.

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1 point

19. How does the writer organise Text B? 

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2 points

20. What Text B is about. 

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1 point

21.  What feature could be added to Text B to make it easier to understand?

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1 point

22.  After reading Text B, do you think it would be difficult to follow these instructions? 

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1 point
Paper 2 Section A: Reading
23. Give one word that tells us that this is not Tom’s first visit from the dragon. *
1 point
24. In line 9 there are two words with an apostrophe: we’d and don’t. 

Write the words in full including the missing letters.
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2 points
25. Why does Tom say they might be better on the floor? *
1 point
26. The dragon opened the curtains quickly. 
What phrase tells us this?
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1 point
27. The writer uses the word inky to describe the blackness.  Why? *
1 point
Part 2
28. Give one word that tells us that Tom spoke loudly *
1 point
29. Why does Tom open the window? *
1 point
30.The dragon is not very worried about what Tom says.
Give one phrase that tells us this.
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1 point
31. Give a two-word phrase which means shut in. *
1 point
32. The dragon says it will not matter if he gets excited up on the roof. 
Why?
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1 point
33. Read lines 29–31. 
 What does Tom say? 
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1 point
Part 3
34. Look at line 33. 
How does the beginning of this line connect to the previous sentence? 
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1 point
35. Look at lines 34–38. 
Find one word that tells us that Tom was holding onto the dragon’s tail very tightly. 
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1 point
36. Read lines 39–40. 
How does Tom feel? 
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1 point
37. Give an irregular past tense verb from line 41. 
Write the present tense of the verb. 
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2 points
38. Look at lines 41–42. 
What kind of word is:
(i) They
(ii) Round-eyed
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2 points
39. Give two features of story-writing used in this text.  *
2 points
40. Do you think the dragon is nice to Tom? 

Give two pieces of evidence from the text to support your opinion.
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3 points
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