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Descriptive Language Reading Comprehension

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Descriptive Language Reading Comprehension

Read the passage, then answer the questions. Look for details that help you imagine the scene and use evidence from the text when you explain your ideas.

The Lighthouse Garden

Mara eased open the rust-red gate. Beyond it, a narrow path curled through a garden beside the lighthouse. Tall foxgloves nodded in the salty breeze, while tiny beads of rain clung to their purple bells. A lemon-bright sun slipped between the clouds and lit the wet stones. From a patch of mint came a cool, sharp scent. Somewhere among the leaves, a robin poured out a clear, bubbling tune. Mara paused, listening; the tight knot of worry in her stomach began to loosen.

Find and explain

Use details from the passage to support your answers.

1.Choose three descriptive details from the passage. For each one, explain what it helps you picture, hear, smell or feel.
2.What might Mara have been worried about before entering the garden? Give one possible idea and quote a detail that supports your inference.
3.The foxgloves are described as having “purple bells”. What feature of the flowers does this comparison help you imagine?
4.Why might the writer say that the robin “poured out” a tune? What effect does this description create?

Write and reflect

Use your imagination and descriptive language in the final tasks.

5.Imagine Mara follows the path further. Write three sentences describing something she discovers. Include details that appeal to at least two senses.
6.The passage calls the sun “lemon-bright”. Explain what this colour description suggests that the simpler word “yellow” might not.

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