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Level 5 · Vowel teams · black-and-white friendly, A4. Untick any sheet you don’t need.

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1. Picture answers

Read, Decode & Understand · Level 5 · Roo Bloom

Read the story. Circle the right picture.

The Duck at the Picnic

  1. Priya and Gran go to the pond.
  2. They sit on a blanket and have a picnic.
  3. Gran packs cheese and grapes.
  4. Priya reaches for the cheese.
  5. Then a duck steps on the blanket!
  6. It quacks and quacks at Priya.
  7. Gran gets out a bag of seeds.
  8. The duck eats the seeds, and Priya eats her cheese.

  1. 1. What did Priya reach for?

    • ice cream
    • cheese
    • pizza

  2. 2. Who stepped on the blanket?

    • duck
    • dog
    • cat

  3. 3. What did the duck eat?

    • cake
    • seeds
    • banana
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2. Word answers

Read, Decode & Understand · Level 5 · Roo Bloom

Read the story. Tick the right word.

The Duck at the Picnic

  1. Priya and Gran go to the pond.
  2. They sit on a blanket and have a picnic.
  3. Gran packs cheese and grapes.
  4. Priya reaches for the cheese.
  5. Then a duck steps on the blanket!
  6. It quacks and quacks at Priya.
  7. Gran gets out a bag of seeds.
  8. The duck eats the seeds, and Priya eats her cheese.

  1. 1. Where did Priya and Gran go?

    • the shop
    • the beach
    • the pond

  2. 2. What does the duck do at Priya?

    • sings
    • barks
    • quacks
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3. Find the clue

Read, Decode & Understand · Level 5 · Roo Bloom

Find the clue. Write the number of the sentence, then underline it.

The answer can be hiding in the story.

The Duck at the Picnic

  1. 1Priya and Gran go to the pond.
  2. 2They sit on a blanket and have a picnic.
  3. 3Gran packs cheese and grapes.
  4. 4Priya reaches for the cheese.
  5. 5Then a duck steps on the blanket!
  6. 6It quacks and quacks at Priya.
  7. 7Gran gets out a bag of seeds.
  8. 8The duck eats the seeds, and Priya eats her cheese.

  1. 1. How do you know the duck wanted food?

    The clue is in sentence number

    Now say or write the answer:

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4. Short answers

Read, Decode & Understand · Level 5 · Roo Bloom

Read the story. Write or say your answer.

The Duck at the Picnic

  1. Priya and Gran go to the pond.
  2. They sit on a blanket and have a picnic.
  3. Gran packs cheese and grapes.
  4. Priya reaches for the cheese.
  5. Then a duck steps on the blanket!
  6. It quacks and quacks at Priya.
  7. Gran gets out a bag of seeds.
  8. The duck eats the seeds, and Priya eats her cheese.

  1. 1. Why did Gran get out the seeds?

  2. 2. What did Priya do at the end?

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5. Put it in order

Read, Decode & Understand · Level 5 · Roo Bloom

What happened first? Write 1, 2, 3 in the boxes.

The Duck at the Picnic

  1. Priya and Gran go to the pond.
  2. They sit on a blanket and have a picnic.
  3. Gran packs cheese and grapes.
  4. Priya reaches for the cheese.
  5. Then a duck steps on the blanket!
  6. It quacks and quacks at Priya.
  7. Gran gets out a bag of seeds.
  8. The duck eats the seeds, and Priya eats her cheese.
  • The duck eats the seeds
  • A duck steps on the blanket
  • They have a picnic

Tell a grown-up the story in your own words: first, next, last.

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6. Draw the story

Read, Decode & Understand · Level 5 · Roo Bloom

Draw something you remember from the story.

The Duck at the Picnic

  1. Priya and Gran go to the pond.
  2. They sit on a blanket and have a picnic.
  3. Gran packs cheese and grapes.
  4. Priya reaches for the cheese.
  5. Then a duck steps on the blanket!
  6. It quacks and quacks at Priya.
  7. Gran gets out a bag of seeds.
  8. The duck eats the seeds, and Priya eats her cheese.

Draw the duck on the picnic blanket.

Write a word or sentence about your picture:

Answers for grown-ups

Read, Decode & Understand · Level 5 · Roo Bloom

The Duck at the Picnic · Level 5 (Vowel teams) · focus words: cheese, seeds, reaches, eats · tricky words: the, to, go, they, have, of, her, out

1. Picture answers

  1. Yes! Priya reached for the cheese.
  2. Yes — a duck stepped on the blanket.
  3. Yes! The duck ate the seeds.

2. Word answers

  1. Yes — Priya and Gran went to the pond.
  2. Yes! The duck quacks and quacks at Priya.

3. Find the clue

  1. Sentence 6 or 8. The duck quacked at Priya and then ate the seeds, so it wanted food.

4. Short answers (any wording that shows they understood is fine)

  1. So the duck could eat them.
  2. She eats her cheese.

5. Put it in order

1. They have a picnic · 2. A duck steps on the blanket · 3. The duck eats the seeds

There is no score. If an answer is not the one, read the sentence together and ask the question again.