English KS2 2016

Year 6 Reading Assessment

Marking Scheme for Non-Fiction
Year 6 Reading Assessment: Non-Fiction 2

question answer marks notes

1. Which two other tourist symbols of Great Britain is the red telephone box compared to?

Content domain: 2b - retrieve and record information/

• Black London taxis
1 identify key details from fiction and non-fiction.
• Red double-decker buses
Award 1 mark for both correct answers indicated.

2. Why is the public telephone box not as useful to people anymore?

Content domain: 2d - make inferences from the text/

explain and justify inferences with evidence from the
text.
People have mobile phones. 1
Award 1 mark for an answer indicating the advent
or emergence of either mobile phones or home
telephones.

3. Name one of the famous landmarks worked on by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott.

• Liverpool Cathedral Content domain: 2b - retrieve and record information/

identify key details from fiction and non-fiction.
• Waterloo Bridge 1
Award 1 mark for any one of the correct answers
• Battersea Power Station indicated.

Order the events, showing some of the major events in the history of the telephone box.
4.
The first one has been done for you.

Production of K6 design ended. - 3

Famous K6 design first introduced. - 2
Content domain: 2b - retrieve and record information/
Some phone boxes turned into libraries identify key details from fiction and non-fiction.
and other uses. - 5
1
Award 1 mark for the correct sequence indicated.
First standard kiosk introduced. - 1
Adopt a Kiosk scheme introduced. - 4

According to the section ‘A Modern Redesign’, which of these have become a new use for a disused
5.
telephone box? Tick two.

Content domain: 2b - retrieve and record information/

• Coffee Shop
1 identify key details from fiction and non-fiction.
• Art Gallery
Award 1 mark for both correct options indicated.

How does the author seem pleased and make it seem like a positive idea that the phone boxes are
6.
being given new uses?

Content domain: 2d - make inferences from the text/

Use of positive vocabulary such as explain and justify inferences with evidence from the
1 text.
‘thankfully’ and ‘happily’.
Award 1 mark for the correct response indicated.
Year 6 Reading Assessment: Non-Fiction 3

7. Write the correct letter in each box to match this key.

A Content domain: 2b - retrieve and record information/

identify key details from fiction and non-fiction.
1
D Award 1 mark for all parts of the diagram correctly
labelled.
C

8. Write down two meanings of the word ‘novel’.

• A novel is a type of fiction

story book. Content domain: 2a - give/explain the meaning of
Up to 2 words in context.
• Novel can mean interesting,
new, different or unusual, Award 1 mark for each correct definition.
e.g. a novel idea.

9. Find and copy two words from the article which mean ‘very small’.

Content domain: 2a - give/explain the meaning of

• miniature
1 words in context.
• tiny
Award 1 mark for both correct answers indicated.

How do you think local residents feel about the phone box being turned into a library?
10.
Give evidence from the text to support your answer.

• Eileen Greenhouse said it was a

‘perfect solution’.
• ‘They had been missing out on a
library for years’. Content domain: 2d - make inferences from the text/
explain and justify inferences with evidence from the
• The phone box was previously
2 text.
starting to look ‘a bit shabby and
neglected’/had ‘stood unused for Award 2 marks for answers referencing the text
several years’.
indicating residents are happy or pleased.
• It has now been ‘spruced up’/‘has
genuine use for local people to enjoy
again’.

Tick True or False in the following table about the Smallsden village telephone box that was turned into a
11.
library.

The telephone box cost campaigners only

one pound to buy. - True
Content domain: 2b - retrieve and record information/
The telephone box has up to two hundred identify key details from fiction and non-fiction.
books. - True
1
Award 1 mark for the correct answer indicated.
The telephone box is open seven days
per week. - False
Year 6 Reading Assessment: Non-Fiction 4

(a) Where else does the Parish Councillor hope that tourists to the area will visit?
12.
(b) Why do you think he is happy that they are coming to the area?

Content domain: 2d - make inferences from the text/

(a) The pub and the newsagent. explain and justify inferences with evidence from the
2 text.
(b) He hopes they will spend
their money in local places. Award 2 marks for both parts of the question
answered correctly.

Total 15