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Summer Reading Comprehension Worksheet

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Summer Reading Comprehension Worksheet

Read the extract carefully. Then answer each question using evidence from the text.

Reading Extract

By the time the food bank opened on the first Monday of the summer holidays, the pavement was already shimmering in the heat. Kwame shifted a crate of tins from one arm to the other and glanced at the clock above the entrance. He had expected the morning to pass slowly. Instead, a queue had formed beside the community hall, and George was still arranging bags on the folding table. “Could you sort these by type?” George asked, pointing to a delivery box. Kwame began making piles: soup, beans, fruit and tea. The work was simple, but the room was close and the labels kept sticking to his fingers. Outside, children hurried past with ice creams. For a moment, he wished he were heading to the park with them. Then Evie came in carrying a paper bag. She explained that her family had picked more tomatoes than they could use and wanted to share them. Kwame helped her set the bright red fruit beside the tins. Soon, people were choosing what they needed, and the table looked less like a store-room and more like a place where neighbours could help one another. When the last visitor had left, the hall was quieter. Kwame wiped the table and looked at the empty crates. He was tired, and the afternoon still seemed long. But as he stepped outside, he noticed that the heat had eased and the sky had turned a soft gold. He had missed the park, but the morning had not felt slow after all.

Comprehension Questions

Use details from the extract to support your ideas.

1.How does the writer show that Kwame is uncomfortable and would rather be somewhere else at the beginning? Use two details from the extract.
2.What can you infer about the people who use the food bank and the way the community responds? Give two inferences, each supported with evidence.
3.Explain how the details about sorting tins, sticky labels and the warm room help create a picture of the food bank morning.
4.How does the mood change between the start and the end of the extract? Support your answer with evidence.
5.Why is the comparison of the table to “a place where neighbours could help one another” important?
6.What might Kwame do or feel after leaving the hall? Make a prediction and support it with a clue from the extract.

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  • Summer Reading Comprehension Worksheet, page 1 of 2: Reading Extract, Comprehension Questions

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  • Summer Reading Comprehension Worksheet, page 2 of 2: 2. What can you infer about the people who use the food bank and the way the community

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