1. Marlborough Primary School Reading Information Evening March 2016

2. Reading for Meaning THE BOY WHO LIVED Mr. and Mrs. Dursley, of number four, Privet Drive, were proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very much. They were the last people you'd expect to be involved in anything strange or mysterious, because they just didn't hold with such nonsense. Mr. Dursley was the director of a firm called Grunnings, which made drills. He was a big, beefy man with hardly any neck, although he did have a very large moustache. Mrs. Dursley was thin and blonde and had nearly twice the usual amount of neck, which came in very useful as she spent so much of her time craning over garden fences, spying on the neighbours. The Dursley’s had a small son called Dudley and in their opinion there was no finer boy anywhere. What can we say about the Dursleys from this section of text? What words/groups of words tell us this?

3. Reading for Meaning In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bare, sandy hole with nothing in it to sit down on or to eat: it a was a hobbit- hole, and that means comfort. It had a perfectly round door like a porthole, painted green, with a shiny yellow brass knob in the exact middle. The door opened on to a tube-shaped hall like a tunnel: a very comfortable tunnel without smoke, with panelled walls, and floors tiled and carpeted, provided with polished chairs, and lots and lots of pegs for hats and coats- the hobbit was fond of visitors. The tunnel wound on and on – going fairly but not quite straight into the side of the hill – The Hill, as all the people for many miles around called it – and many little round doors opened out of it, first on one side and then on another. No going upstairs for the hobbit: bedrooms, bathrooms, cellars, pantries (lots of these), wardrobes (he had whole rooms devoted to clothes), kitchens, dining-rooms, all were on the same floor, and indeed on the same passage.

4. Reading for Meaning Finding the Bones Can you summarise this passage in: A few sentences Hobbits are creatures that enjoy comfort. We know this because the passage explains that they don’t live in holes that are dirty of wet and that a Hobbit hole means comfort. One sentence Hobbits are creatures that enjoy comfort because they live in holes that are that are free from dirt, have something to sit down on and do not smell. A phrase (group of words) Hobbits enjoy comfort. One word Comfort

5. Reading for Meaning PEEing P oint Make a point. E vidence Explain what it shows. E xplain What does it show/imply?

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