Spot the Mistakes Reading

Multiple Choice

Which word is closest in meaning to 'competitor''?

• friend

• relative

• country

• opponent

Multiple Choice

What top tip will help you answer a retrieval question?

• Just guess!

• Find a key word in the text from the question

• Use your own knowledge of the subject

• Leave it blank

Multiple Choice

Tick the correct response. Tom is writing to request...

• more homework

• no homework

• a longer break

• no school uniform

Multiple Choice

Which top tip will help you answer a multiple choice question?

• Leave it blank

• Tick them all, then you can't be wrong

• Just guess

• Eliminate unlikely answers

Multiple Choice

Participate actively means to...

• be polite

• ignore people

• join in

• not listen

Match

Match the question type with the top tip.

• Inference

• Vocabulary

• Retrieval

• Predict

• Summarise

Read around the section for clues

Replace the word with a synonym

Locate the information and copy exactly

Make an educated guess based on available information

Find the main points in a text

• Read around the section for clues

• Replace the word with a synonym

• Locate the information and copy exactly

• Make an educated guess based on available information

• Find the main points in a text