Comprehensive comprehension
Based on Roald Dahl's short story, 'Mrs Bixby and the Colonel's Coat', this hugely popular teaching resource includes a detailed set of 16 different comprehension questions on this accessible prose text.
It is designed to test a variety of reading skills including information retrieval, inference and evidence-based opinion.
This classroom resource could be used for building reading skills or for an unseen fiction lesson.
Example questions from the teaching worksheet:
- Where does Mrs Bixby go ‘once a month … on Friday afternoons’, and what reason is given for her trips?
- What different impressions are we given of Mrs Bixby by the way she describes how the two different men in her life make her feel? Using your own words write a sentence or two for how each man makes her feel about herself. Support your ideas with quotations from the story.
- What single word sums up the Colonel’s motivation in giving Mrs Bixby the coat?
- How would you describe the tone of the Colonel’s note? Pick the most appropriate description then write a sentence or two to explain your choice:
- Loving and affectionate
- Impersonal and polite
- Sad and regretful
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Review this resourceTotally useless without a reading source, not to mention, pointless.
05/12/2022
Response from Teachit editor
Thanks so much for taking the time to leave a comment. Unfortunately, due to copyright restrictions, we cannot include a copy of Dahl's short story in the resource, but you can find it very easily via a google search.
wassup g strings this helped my vocab alot wagwans peacooe out broski
28/11/2020
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23/11/2019
Hi Catherine, all the resources in this collection were designed for the published anthology 'Brave New Words'. You'll find the extract in the text.
25/09/2018
I need the extract in order to use the questions...
24/09/2018
its was taught I've never read something so good
15/01/2016