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Railway Children - Answer Booklet

The document is a Year 3 Reading Assessment for the book 'The Railway Children', containing 15 questions designed to evaluate students' comprehension of the text. It includes questions about character names, settings, and specific events in the story, as well as prompts for drawing and matching activities. The assessment aims to gauge students' understanding of the narrative and their ability to analyze character emotions and actions.

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Railway Children - Answer Booklet

The document is a Year 3 Reading Assessment for the book 'The Railway Children', containing 15 questions designed to evaluate students' comprehension of the text. It includes questions about character names, settings, and specific events in the story, as well as prompts for drawing and matching activities. The assessment aims to gauge students' understanding of the narrative and their ability to analyze character emotions and actions.

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English KS2 2016

Year 3 Reading Assessment


The Railway Children
Answer Booklet

First Name

Middle Name

Last Name

Date of Birth Day Month Year

School Name

DfE Number

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Year 3 Reading Assessment Fiction 23
total marks

Questions 1 to 15 are about ‘The Railway Children’

1. What were the names of the three children?


1 mark

2. Where was the house that they had moved to?


1 mark

3. Why did the children have their lunch with them?


1 mark

4. Draw a line to match what might be found in the places being described.
2 marks

Place What might be found

Among the rocks

Near the tunnel Grey, rough stone

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5.
2 marks

6. ‘What is it? Oh, what is it?’ said Phyllis; ‘it’s much too magic for me. I don’t like it.
Let’s go home.’ 2 marks

What ideas are we given about Phyllis’s personality in this part of the text?

7. Look at the paragraph beginning: ‘It’s ALL coming down,’ Peter tried to say.
The author describes the trees as if they were people. Find and copy two words that 2 marks

show this.

1.

2.

8. Look at the paragraph beginning: ‘Look what a great mound it’s made!’.
Find and copy one phrase which shows that Peter was starting to become very scared. 1 mark

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9. Why do the children decide not to run to the station to warn the adults about the fall-
en trees? 1 mark

10. Look at the paragraph beginning: They got down the steep stairs. Bobbie was pale and
shivering. Peter’s face looked thinner than usual. Phyllis was red-faced and damp with 1 mark

anxiety.
Draw a line to show the phrase that is closest in meaning to how the children
are feeling.
hot

The children are feeling hungry

scared

11.
2 marks
Why do you think the author has chosen to use the reporting clause ‘she cried’ in
this sentence?

12. Find and copy a phrase near the end of the story that shows that the children
risked danger. 1 mark

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13.
for you. 2 marks

Trees are seen moving down the hill.

14. Explain what kind of boy Peter is. Give evidence from the text.
2 marks

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15.
2 marks

Problem Solution

The tunnel is far from home – how will Mother let them take their lunch
the children eat? with them.

The children decide to run to tell the

There is not enough time to alert the

11.29) uses the tracks.

The children need something


red to wave.

End of questions about ‘The Railway Children’

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