The Midnight Hour - Analysis and Comprehension
Explore reading comprehension tasks from 'The Midnight Hour' by Benjamin Read and Laura Trinder. Analyze the setting, characters, and events based on provided excerpts. Decode vocabulary, answer questions, and grasp the storyline through text interpretation.
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Your reading comprehension is based on an extract from The Midnight Hour by Benjamin Read and Laura Trinder. Look carefully at the cover Where do you think the book is set? What are the clues? Do you like the title? Why or why not? What do you think the story will be about? Would you pick this book up if you saw it in a library?
Your reading comprehension is about The Midnight Hour by Benjamin Read and Laura Trinder. Vocabulary infuriate If something or someone infuriates you, they make you extremely angry. inherit If you inherit a characteristic or quality, you are born with it, because your parents or ancestors also had it. Fill in the missing words (Inherit and infuriate are both verbs so you might need to change the word endings.) She ___________________ her sense of humour from her mother. Felix was ____________________ to find a parking ticket on his car. Which word goes with inherit? dream grandparent education Which word goes with infuriate? annoy delight understand
Read the text and then answer the questions on the next slide.
1. Where does Emily live? There was just something so infuriating about her that it kept turning Emily into a human firework of foot-stamping rage. Light fuse, stand well back. Whizz bang pop, giant row, grounded ______________________________________________ 2. What time does Emily wake up? ______________________________________________ 6. Describe in your own words what you think Emily does when she is infuriated by her mum. 3. Who is Feesh? ______________________________________________ ______________________________________________ ______________________________________________ 4. Why does Emily groan at the numbers on her clock? ______________________________________________ ______________________________________________ ______________________________________________ ______________________________________________ 7. Why has the author chosen to compare Emily to a firework? ______________________________________________ 5. Find and copy a phrase that shows this is not the first time Emily has been grounded. ______________________________________________ ______________________________________________ ______________________________________________ ______________________________________________ ______________________________________________
If her mum didnt keep dragging her out on special missions to get important art materials from bins to make crazy sculptures, then none of this would have happened. 10. Why has Emily been grounded? ______________________________________________ ______________________________________________ ______________________________________________ 8. Why has the author used inverted commas around special missions and important art materials ? 11. Whose point of view is this story written from? How do you know? ______________________________________________ ______________________________________________ ______________________________________________ ______________________________________________ 9. Give three examples of things that Emily s mum does that embarrass her. ______________________________________________ 1. ___________________________________________ 12. How old do you think Emily is? Use evidence from the text to explain your answer. ___________________________________________ ______________________________________________ 2. ___________________________________________ ______________________________________________ ___________________________________________ ______________________________________________ 3. ___________________________________________ ______________________________________________ ___________________________________________
13. Give evidence from the text to support each statement in the table: Statement Emily is embarrassed by her mum. Evidence from the text ______________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________ Emily is upset about what has happened. ______________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________ Emily is similar in some ways to other members of her family. ______________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________ 15. What questions do you have about the rest of the story? Write three things you would like to know more about. __________________________________________ 14. Describe Emily s personality. Use what you have read about her in the extract to help you. _____________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________ __________________________________________ _____________________________________________________ __________________________________________ _____________________________________________________ __________________________________________ _____________________________________________________ __________________________________________
