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    The document contains summaries of several short stories as well as questions about the stories' content and themes. Specifically, it provides: 1) Summaries of 4 short stories - "The Mystery of the Colour Thief", "Aberrations – The Beast Awakens", "William Wenton and the Secret Portal", and "Spirit". 2) Retrieval, inference, and choice questions about each story to test the reader's comprehension. 3) A challenge question at the end of each story's questions prompting the reader to make predictions or continue the story's narrative.

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    The document contains summaries of several short stories as well as questions about the stories' content and themes. Specifically, it provides: 1) Summaries of 4 short stories - "The Mystery of the Colour Thief", "Aberrations – The Beast Awakens", "William Wenton and the Secret Portal", and "Spirit". 2) Retrieval, inference, and choice questions about each story to test the reader's comprehension. 3) A challenge question at the end of each story's questions prompting the reader to make predictions or continue the story's narrative.

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    The document contains summaries of several short stories as well as questions about the stories' content and themes. Specifically, it provides: 1) Summaries of 4 short stories - "The Mystery of the Colour Thief", "Aberrations – The Beast Awakens", "William Wenton and the Secret Portal", and "Spirit". 2) Retrieval, inference, and choice questions about each story to test the reader's comprehension. 3) A challenge question at the end of each story's questions prompting the reader to make predictions or continue the story's narrative.

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    The document contains summaries of several short stories as well as questions about the stories' content and themes. Specifically, it provides: 1) Summaries of 4 short stories - "The Mystery of the Colour Thief", "Aberrations – The Beast Awakens", "William Wenton and the Secret Portal", and "Spirit". 2) Retrieval, inference, and choice questions about each story to test the reader's comprehension. 3) A challenge question at the end of each story's questions prompting the reader to make predictions or continue the story's narrative.

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    The Mystery of the Colour Thief

    by Ewa Jozefkowicz Retrieval questions


    1. What time of year was it?
    2. Is Lou a boy or a girl?
    3. Who was ‘a smudge of black in
    the grey’?

    Inference questions.
    1. Who was Milo? – Support
    your answer with evidence
    from the text.
    2. Was the narrator late for
    school? – Support your answer
    with evidence from the text.
    3. Is it a cold day? – Support
    your answer with evidence
    from the text.

    Choice questions

    1. Which word in the text means


    ‘radiating light’?
    2. Which word in the text means
    ‘to gather in a close group’?
    3. What does the phrase ‘in sync’
    mean?
    4. What does the author mean in
    the line ‘the finishing line of
    the school gates’?
    5. The author uses a metaphor in
    paragraph one can you identify
    it?
    6. The author uses short
    sentences in paragraph two –
    what effect does this have on
    the reader?

    Challenge question
    Write your own description of a
    mysterious figure. Use paragraph
    one to help you.
    Aberrations – The Beast Awakens
    by Joseph Delaney.

    Words in Context
    Find and highlight the following
    words in the text.
    • Decrepit
    • Benign
    • Malevolent
    What do you think they mean?
    What words could you replace them
    with?

    Retrieval questions
    1. Where is Crafty?
    2. How long had his mother been
    dead?
    3. Did Crafty want to leave the
    cellar?.

    Inference questions

    1. Has Crafty been in the cellar a


    long time? Support your
    answer with evidence from
    the text.
    2. Find three pieces of evidence
    which suggests this a fantasy
    story.
    3. Find evidence to suggest the
    cupboard had previously been
    magical..
    4. What time of day is it?
    Support your answer with
    evidence from the text.

    Choice questions
    1. What word in the text mean ‘a
    place of safety’.
    2. The author uses
    personification in the 2 nd
    paragraph – can you identify
    it? What effect does it have?
    Challenge question
    What effect does the first line of
    the extract have on the reader?
    William Wenton and the Secret Portal
    by Bobby Peers Words in Context
    Find and highlight the following
    words in the text.
    • Artefacts
    • Materializing
    • Proceeded

    What do you think they mean?


    What word or phrase could you
    replace them with?.

    Retrieval questions
    1. Where is Pontus?
    2. Where is the Depository for
    Impossible Archaeology?
    3. How does the author describe
    the woman’s hair?.

    Inference questions

    1. What do you think Pontus


    Dippel's job was? Support your
    answer with evidence from
    the text.
    2. Find three pieces of evidence
    which suggests this a fantasy
    story.
    3. What do you think the name
    ‘Post-human’ suggests about
    the story?
    4. What do you think the guard
    bots look like? Support your
    answer with evidence from
    the text.

    Choice questions
    1. What word in the text mean
    ‘turned quickly’.
    2. Why is the word ‘swish’ in an
    italic font?
    Challenge question
    Who do you think the woman is and
    how do you think Pontus Dippel
    knows her?
    @redhairedteach
    Spirit
    By Sally Christie

    Retrieval questions
    1. Who was Matt Barker?
    2. What had Mikey Maloney told
    them last term?
    3. Who asked the first question?

    Inference questions

    1. Who do you think Mr McGann


    is? Support your answer with
    evidence from the text.
    2. Why do you think Mr McGann
    said that truth and trust were
    closely connected?
    3. How do you know the ‘Truth
    Game’ had been played before?
    4. Are Mikey Maloney and Joe
    Black friends? Support your
    answer with evidence from
    the text.
    5. How old do you think Mikey
    Maloney is? Support your
    answer with evidence from
    the text.

    Choice questions
    1. Mr McGann describes Joe
    Black as ‘sparky’ what do you
    think this means?
    2. Why is the word ‘he’ and
    ‘them’ in an italic font?

    Challenge question
    What do you think will happen next
    in the story?

    @redhairedteach

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