Retrieving Information
1. Use a dictionary to find the definitions for
A. resonating produce or be filled with a deep, full, reverberating sound.
b. ritual a series of actions or type of behaviour regularly and invariably followed by someone.
c. terrarium a vivarium for smaller land animals, especially reptiles, amphibians, or terrestrial invertebrates, typically in the form of a glass-fronted case.
2. Find and copy one word that shows that Trick’s blazer is old.
Answer: years
3. Find and copy one word that shows that Trick never forgets to buy his magazines
Answer: weeklies
Making Inferences
4. What type of creature lives in the terrarium and how do you know?
Answer: crickets because in the text it says Shelob had clearly been hungry in the night, polishing of the last of her crickets with means there were crickets in the terrarium.
5. Why do you think Trick kisses his necklace?
Answer: I think trick kissed his necklace because he thinks that it would give him good luck for the day.
6. Is Trick’s room tidy? Give 2 pieces of evidence to support your answer.
Answer: No because it said that the room was loaded with comic collection
Writer’s Choices
7. Why has the writer chosen to describe the knotted tie as “like a noose”? What does this tell us?
Answer: Because he did it really bad.
8. Why has the author selected words like “shrugged” and “shambled” to describe how Trick moves?
Answer: Because he was walking very weird and lazy.
Challenge Question (extended answer)
9. Describe what you think Trick might be like at school, using quotes from the text to support your answer.
Answer: I think Trick is good behaved like me in school because in the text he had very thing prepared for school the next day I know this because in the text it said After squeezing into the jeans, he tugged on the shirt-still buttoned from the night before.
