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Use these fun reading comprehension sheets to practice comprehension strategies while learning fun facts about rainforest animals!
1.
Rainforest Calling
9:50 a.m.
I wonder if the person who gave the rainforest its name
had ever actually been there. Surely, if they had, they’d
have called it the ‘plant forest’ instead.
Mrs Curtis, my teacher, told us that more than two thirds of
the world’s plant species live in rainforest environments.
That’s more than 80,000 different plants!
There’s no way that I’m telling my Grandma
Wilkins that! She’d be on the first plane to Brazil
with her lucky gardening gloves because she really loves plants. Do you
know, she once told me that she might love plants even more than she
loves my mum! Don’t worry, I haven’t told my mum that.
That’s one of the reasons why I volunteered for this project – so
that I could tell my grandma about all the plants. Mrs Curtis
wanted one of us to spend a whole week looking at some webcams
in the Amazonian rainforest.
I put my hand straight up. My best friend, Millie, said that
the last time she’d seen anything move as fast as my arm was
when someone told her daft brother that the bank was giving away free
money. Who wouldn’t volunteer to spend the whole week looking at the
Amazon? I think that I’d be really good at spotting all the different plants and
animals.
As soon as Mrs Curtis looked at me, I knew that I hadn’t been picked. She
had the same expression on her face that she uses to tell us that we’ve
got a maths question wrong as she said, "Maybe next time, Daisy." Jack
Walters got picked instead, but he changed his mind when he found out
that we’re only allowed to look at the webcams during our breaks and
at lunchtime. He said that there was no way that he was going to miss
playing football in the playground. So Mrs Curtis ended up choosing me
anyway! I don’t mind having to do normal lessons I got nine out of
ten on my spellings last week. Still can’t spell rhinnosoraus, though.
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Mrs Curtis said that I have to write a journal entry to tell the rest of the class what I’ve
seen on the webcams. I haven’t written a journal before. The only things I write at home
are lists of my favourite songs and the things I want for Christmas, but Mrs Curtis said
not to worry and to just write as I like to speak. I think that should make it easier!
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Questions
1. What does Daisy suggest the rainforest should be called?
2. According to the text, what portion of the world’s plant species live in the rainforest?
80,000 about half
more than two thirds 1 in 10
3. Which of these words or phrases shows that Daisy offered to give up her time willingly?
picked wanted
volunteered allowed
4. Match these character names to the correct descriptions.
Mrs Wilkins Daisy’s teacher
Jack Walters Daisy’s classmate
Millie Daisy’s grandma
Mrs Curtis Daisy’s best friend
5. Which of the following are things that Daisy normally writes at home. Tick two.
her journal Christmas list
lists of her favourite songs shopping list
6. As part of the project, Daisy has to… (tick two)
…get on a plane to Brazil.
…look at some webcams in the Amazonian rainforest.
…miss her spelling test.
…write a journal entry to tell the rest of the class what she’s seen.
7. Why didn’t Jack take part in the project?
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Answers
1. What does Daisy suggest the rainforest should be called?
the ‘plant forest’
2. According to the text, what portion of the world’s plant species live in the rainforest?
80,000 about half
more than two thirds 1 in 10
3. Which of these words or phrases shows that Daisy offered to give up her time willingly?
picked wanted
volunteered allowed
4. Match these character names to the correct descriptions.
Mrs Wilkins Daisy’s teacher
Jack Walters Daisy’s classmate
Millie Daisy’s grandma
Mrs Curtis Daisy’s best friend
5. Which of the following are things that Daisy normally writes at home. Tick two.
Christmas list
her journal
shopping list
lists of her favourite songs
6. As part of the project, Daisy has to… (tick two)
…get on a plane to Brazil.
…look at some webcams in the Amazonian rainforest.
…miss her spelling test.
…write a journal entry to tell the rest of the class what she’s seen.
7. Why didn’t Jack take part in the project?
Accept a response that explains how Jack didn’t want to give up his free time, such as:
Jack was chosen first but didn’t want to miss playing football in the playground at
breaktime and lunch.
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Rainforest Calling
9:50 a.m.
I wonder if the person who gave the rainforest its name
had ever actually been there. Surely, if they had, they’d
have called it the ‘plant forest’ instead.
Mrs Curtis, my teacher, told us that more than two thirds of
the world’s plant species live in rainforest environments.
That’s more than 80,000 different plants!
There’s no way that I’m telling my Grandma
Wilkins that! She’d be on the first plane to Brazil
with her lucky gardening gloves because she really loves plants. Do you
know, she once told me that she might love plants even more than she
loves my mum! Don’t worry, I haven’t told my mum that.
That’s one of the reasons why I volunteered for this project – so that
I could tell my grandma about all the plants. Mrs Curtis wanted
one of us to spend a whole week looking at some webcams in the
Amazonian rainforest.
I put my hand straight up. My best friend, Millie, said that the
last time she’d seen anything move as fast as my arm was when
someone told her daft brother that the bank was giving away free
money. Who wouldn’t volunteer to spend the whole week looking at
the Amazon? I think that I’d be really good at spotting all the different
plants and animals.
As soon as Mrs Curtis looked at me, I knew that I hadn’t been picked. She
had the same expression on her face that she uses to tell us that we’ve
got a maths question wrong as she said, "Maybe next time, Daisy."
Jack Walters got picked instead, but he changed his mind when he
found out that we’re only allowed to look at the webcams during
our breaks and at lunchtime. He said that there was no way that
he was going to miss playing football in the playground. So Mrs
Curtis ended up choosing me anyway! I don’t mind having to do
normal lessons I got nine out of ten on my spellings last
week. Still can’t spell rhinnosoraus, though.
Mrs Curtis said that I have to write a journal entry to tell
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the rest of the class what I’ve seen on the webcams. I haven’t written a journal before.
The only things I write at home are lists of my favourite songs and the things I want
for Christmas, but Mrs Curtis said not to worry and to just write as I like to speak. I
think that should make it easier!
A ‘green conversation’ charity set the webcams up a few years ago (I’m not actually
sure what a green conversation is, or a red or yellow or pink conversation either)
and when Mrs Curtis logged on with her laptop, she showed me that we can move
the webcams with the arrows on the keyboard. If I want to move left or right, up or
down, I just press the arrows. I can even move from camera to camera so that I can
explore each layer of the rainforest! Mrs Curtis also said that the Amazon rainforest is
over 5,000 miles away from our school, yet I can still move the lens in any direction
I want. Sometimes, technology is amazing!
I’d love to spend all my time looking for the monkeys, or even a Bigfoot! My dad
says that scientists claim there are still over five million animal species waiting to be
discovered in the world, and most of those probably live in the rainforest. He wants me
to keep my eyes peeled for a Bigfoot. He says, “Daisy, that’ll be like winning
the lottery!”
My dad thinks that he knows lots about the rainforest.
I think that he might have read the same books as Mrs
Curtis because they both said that lots of what we all
take for granted comes from the rainforest. Those beans
that they use to make chocolate come from there, and
pineapples, too, plus the ginger that goes into
yummy biscuits... even rubber for the soles of
my trainers.
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Rainforest Calling
Questions
1. Which of these characters are children in Daisy’s class?
Millie Curtis
Jack Walter
2. Match the characters with the description or information given about them in the text.
Grandma Wilkins scored 9 out of 10 in the spelling test.
Jack is a teacher who knows about rainforests.
Daisy loves to play football.
Mrs Curtis loves plants.
3. Find and copy a word that means Daisy freely offered to give up her time to participate in
the project.
4. How do Jack and Daisy react differently to giving up their breaktimes to do the rainforest
project?
5. Which two things does Daisy say that she normally writes at home?
1.
2.
6. Find and copy two types of food or ingredients that come from the rainforest and are
mentioned in the text.
1.
2.
7. What is the purpose of Daisy’s journal?
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8. Summarise the text in 30 words or fewer.
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Answers
1. Which of these characters are children in Daisy’s class?
Millie Curtis
Jack Walter
2. Match the characters with the description or information given about them in the text.
Grandma Wilkins scored 9 out of 10 in the spelling test.
Jack is a teacher who knows about rainforests.
Daisy loves to play football.
Mrs Curtis loves plants.
3. Find and copy a word that means Daisy freely offered to give up her time to participate in
the project.
volunteer/volunteered
4. How do Jack and Daisy react differently to giving up their breaktimes to do the rainforest
project?
Accept any comparison that shows how Jack was not willing to give up his time but
Daisy was, for example: Jack is not happy and doesn’t want to miss playing football on
the playground so he doesn’t take part. Millie doesn’t mind and is happy to use her free
time on the project.
5. Which two things does Daisy say that she normally writes at home?
1. lists of her favourite songs.
2. Christmas list
6. Find and copy two types of food or ingredients that come from the rainforest and are
mentioned in the text.
Accept any two from: (cocoa) beans (to make chocolate); pineapple; ginger (for
biscuits).
7. What is the purpose of Daisy’s journal?
To write down what she sees on the webcams and share with the rest of the class.
8. Summarise the text in 30 words or fewer.
Accept any summary of 30 words or fewer. For example, Daisy has volunteered to spend
her free time watching rainforest webcams and will make a journal to tell her class
what she sees. Jack Walters didn’t want to do it.
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Rainforest Calling
9:50 a.m.
I wonder if the person who gave the rainforest its name
had ever actually been there. Surely, if they had, they’d
have called it the ‘plant forest’ instead.
Mrs Curtis, my teacher, told us that more than two thirds of
the world’s plant species live in rainforest environments.
That’s more than 80,000 different plants!
There’s no way that I’m telling my Grandma
Wilkins that! She’d be on the first plane to Brazil
with her lucky gardening gloves because she really loves plants. Do you
know, she once told me that she might love plants even more than she
loves my mum! Don’t worry, I haven’t told my mum that.
That’s one of the reasons why I volunteered for this project – so
that I could tell my grandma about all the plants. Mrs Curtis
wanted one of us to spend a whole week looking at some webcams
in the Amazonian rainforest.
I put my hand straight up. My best friend, Millie, said that
the last time she’d seen anything move as fast as my arm was
when someone told her daft brother that the bank was giving away free
money. Who wouldn’t volunteer to spend the whole week looking at
the Amazon? I think that I’d be really good at spotting all the different plants
and animals.
As soon as Mrs Curtis looked at me, I knew that I hadn’t been picked. She
had the same expression on her face that she uses to tell us that we’ve
got a maths question wrong as she said, "Maybe next time, Daisy." Jack
Walters got picked instead, but he changed his mind when he found out
that we’re only allowed to look at the webcams during our breaks and
at lunchtime. He said that there was no way that he was going to miss
playing football in the playground. So Mrs Curtis ended up choosing me
anyway! I don’t mind having to do normal lessons I got nine out
of ten on my spellings last week. Still can’t spell rhinnosoraus,
though.
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Mrs Curtis said that I have to write a journal entry to tell the rest of the class what
I’ve seen on the webcams. I haven’t written a journal before. The only things I write
at home are lists of my favourite songs and the things I want for Christmas, but Mrs
Curtis said not to worry and to just write as I like to speak. I think that should make
it easier!
A ‘green conversation’ charity set the webcams up a few years ago (I’m not actually
sure what a green conversation is, or a red or yellow or pink conversation either)
and when Mrs Curtis logged on with her laptop, she showed me that we can move
the webcams with the arrows on the keyboard. If I want to move left or right, up or
down, I just press the arrows. I can even move from camera to camera so that I can
explore each layer of the rainforest! Mrs Curtis also said that the Amazon rainforest is
over 5,000 miles away from our school, yet I can still move the lens in any direction
I want. Sometimes, technology is amazing!
I’d love to spend all my time looking for the monkeys, or even a Bigfoot! My dad says that
scientists claim there are still over five million animal species waiting to be discovered
in the world, and most of those probably live in the rainforest. He wants me to keep my
eyes peeled for a Bigfoot. He says, “Daisy, that’ll be like winning the lottery!”
My dad thinks that he knows lots about the rainforest. I think that he might have read
the same books as Mrs Curtis because they both said that lots of what we all take for
granted comes from the rainforest. Those beans that they use to make chocolate come
from there, and pineapples, too, plus the ginger that goes into yummy biscuits... even
rubber for the soles of my trainers.
Millie says that her uncle has an important job at the city museum and he reckons that
more than twenty-five percent (that’s a quarter) of all medicines use plants from the
rainforest. So if you stay up too late and have a headache, or get an iffy tummy after
you’ve eaten one of your dad’s home-made curries, the medicine
that you are given could be made from rainforest plants. How
amazing is that?
What I’d really like to find, though, is a new kind of flower -
maybe one of those beautiful orchids. When you find something
new like that, those clever people you see on the documentary
channels sometimes let you name them. I’d call mine the
Wilkins orchid, after Grandma Wilkins. That would make her feel very important, and
she tells me that she’s always wanted to be a VIP!
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Rainforest Calling
Questions
1. What is the meaning of the word ‘volunteered’?
2. Draw lines to match these figures with the correct information.
Percentage of all medicines that we
80,000
use, which come from the rainforest.
Number of spellings that Daisy got
5000 correct on her test.
Distance in miles from school to the
25
Amazon rainforest.
9 Number of different plant species in
the rainforest.
3. Complete the table by showing whether each statement is a fact or an opinion.
Fact Opinion
Daisy volunteered to take
part in the project.
Watching the rainforest
would be exciting.
The flowers in the rainforest
are beautiful.
A charity set up the
webcams.
4. How do you think Daisy feels about being chosen to take part in the project? Give evidence
for your answer.
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5. What kind of relationship do you think Daisy has with her grandma? Use evidence from
the text to support your answer.
6. Find and copy three types of food or ingredients that come from the rainforest and are
mentioned in the text.
1.
2.
3.
7. Find and copy a phrase which means that we fail to appreciate something because we’re
so familiar with it.
8. What type of flower does Daisy hope to find in the rainforest and what name would she
give it?
9. Which of these does Daisy mean with the abbreviation VIP?
Very Interesting Project
Very Important Person
Vegetation In Places
Vanishing In Power
10. Summarise the text in 30 words or fewer.
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Answers
1. What is the meaning of the word ‘volunteered’?
offered freely and willingly/was not told to do it/put herself forward
2. Draw lines to match these figures with the correct information.
Percentage of all medicines that we
80,000
use, which come from the rainforest.
Number of spellings that Daisy got
5000 correct on her test.
Distance in miles from school to the
25
Amazon rainforest.
9 Number of different plant species in
the rainforest.
3. Complete the table by showing whether each statement is a fact or an opinion.
Fact Opinion
Daisy volunteered to take
part in the project.
Watching the rainforest
would be exciting.
The flowers in the rainforest
are beautiful.
A charity set up the
webcams.
4. How do you think Daisy feels about being chosen to take part in the project? Give evidence
for your answer.
Accept a response that explains that Daisy is happy/pleased/delighted to be chosen
because she volunteered/she really wanted to take part. Accept evidence to show Daisy’s
reasons or enthusiasm, e.g. she could tell her grandma about the plants/she could look
for a new kind of flower. Also accept answers indicating Daisy is relieved as she was not
picked first/annoyed because Jack was picked first.
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5. What kind of relationship do you think Daisy has with her grandma? Use evidence from
the text to support your answer.
Accept an answer that shows Daisy’s relationship with her grandma is good/close/
friendly. Accept evidence, such as: she wants to name a flower after her/she thinks of
her grandma instantly/she talks a lot about her grandma.
Do not accept answers which just state things that her grandma likes, such as gardening
or plants, without reference to Daisy’s bond with her grandma.
6. Find and copy three types of food or ingredients that come from the rainforest and are
mentioned in the text.
Accept any three from: (cocoa) beans (to make chocolate), pineapples and ginger (for
biscuits). Do not accept reference to home-made curry without stating the ingredients
above.
7. Find and copy a phrase which means that we fail to appreciate something because we’re
so familiar with it.
‘take for granted’
8. What type of flower does Daisy hope to find in the rainforest and what name would she
give it?
An orchid that would be called the Wilkins orchid.
9. Which of these does Daisy mean with the abbreviation VIP?
Very Interesting Project
Very Important Person
Vegetation In Places
Vanishing In Power
10. Summarise the text in 30 words or fewer.
Accept any summary of 30 words or fewer. For example, Daisy has volunteered to spend
her free time watching rainforest webcams and will make a journal to tell her class
what she sees. Jack Walters didn’t want to do it.
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