Bug Muldoon. 1. Circle the best description of how Bug was feeling in the opening paragraph. 2. Why was Bug working on a missing-insect case?

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1 SAT SAT PRACTICE ACTIVITY LEAFLET 1 1. Circle the best description of how Bug was feeling in the opening paragraph. He was disgusted with himself. He wanted to run round the garden ten times. He was exhausted. He was enjoying working on this case. 2. Why was Bug working on a missing-insect case? He had lost his luggage? He needed the money? He cared about insects? Bug Muldoon It was a special case? 3. What makes you think Bug does not want to spring clean? 1 mark 1 mark 2 marks 4. Why was he curious to see three earwigs crawling up the flower bed? 2 marks 5. Give three reasons why Bug thought the earwigs were nervous? 6. What did Bug know about living in the meadow? 7. Why do you think Bug Muldoon is not very excited by the case of a missing bug? Explain your answer fully. 2 marks 13

2 SPIDERS THE ULTIMATE CREEPY CRAWLIES POSTER 1 Verb confusion! Check these sentences about spiders. Identify the verbs. There were 600 types of spider in Britain. Most spiders caught their prey in webs. There were many legends and stories about spiders. They had hard external skeletons and no wings. They were not insects but arachnids. The verbs used are: Rewrite the information in the present tense. Now add two sentences of your own, giving more information about spiders. Write in the present tense. 5

3 LEAFLET 1 BUG MULDOON AND THE GARDEN OF FEAR Imagine you are in a garden. Think of all the insects you might fi nd there and what you know about them already. Sort them into two groups. Goodies eg, ladybirds It s a bug s life Baddies eg, slugs Choose one of each type and describe it in more detail. These ideas might help you: Give your bug a name (eg, Letitia the Ladybird/Silas Slug): Where would they live? (eg, in the flower borders/under a pile of leaves): List some of their features (nouns to identify them eg, spots/ antennae): List adjectives to describe what they look like (eg, colourful/slippery): List verbs to explain the way they move (eg, scurry/slither): Add some adverbs to describe the verbs (eg, busily/slowly): What sort of voice would they have? (eg, high-pitched and female/ deep and male): What do you think their personality might be? (eg, timid and anxious/grumpy and rude): Add any other information about them eg, Would they be popular? What problems might they have? Would they have a family? Draw a labelled sketch of your bug on the back of the sheet. 14

4 THE BEETLES OF SHERWOOD FOREST POSTER 4 Fact or opinion? Fact Box What did you learn about beetles from reading the magazine article? List all the facts here: Opinion Box What do you think of beetles? Do you like the way they look and move? List your feelings about beetles here: Now think about spiders. Use a book to fi nd out fi ve facts about them and write these in the fact box. In the opinion box, list your thoughts and feelings about spiders. Be careful not to put facts in the opinion box or opinions in the fact box. Fact Box Opinion Box 11

5 LEAFLET 2 HURT NO LIVING THINGS AND OTHER POEMS Creatures of the Garden Choose one group of minibeasts (eg, worms, woodlice, beetles, slugs or spiders) and make notes about them from memory or close observation. Use a thesaurus to fi nd expressive verbs and powerful adjectives for your description. (Continue on the back of the sheet if necessary.) Close observational notes while watching Where I found or observed them: How they moved: What they looked like: Strong words from the thesaurus: Now think up a simile to describe your minibeasts. Put all your ideas into a two stanza poem, similar to Creatures of the Garden, as follows: verbs of creature and where? Begin with a verb ending in -ing like and simile like Check: Did your second stanza follow the same pattern as your fi rst? Can you strengthen any of your verbs? Use a thesaurus to help you. 16

6 A-Z OF CREEPY CRAWLIES POSTER 2 A-Z of Creepy Crawlies Fact Sheet Use the table below to help sort out some facts from the poster and compare some of the creatures. Tick the columns to show their features. Creepy Crawly Wings Hairy Noisy Stings Eats blood or flesh Eats vegetation Assassin Bug Bumblebee Centipede 7

7 POSTER 1 SAT PRACTICE ACTIVITY SAT Spider facts Read the poster text again then answer these questions: 1. Write three facts about a spider s body. 2. Do any types of spider live in the sea? 1 mark 3. Without using a dictionary, see if you can write a defi nition of: paralyse deadly seize 4. How was Robert the Bruce said to be inspired by a spider? 2 marks 5. Give three facts to explain how spiders that do not spin webs catch their prey. 4

8 RECIPE FOR SNARGLEFOOT PIE POSTER 3 Bubble doubles! There are many two-syllable words that end in le. Lots of these have a double consonant words like bubble, apple, little and so on. Use the bubbles below to collect as many double consonant le words as you can, by fi nding words with the same vowel sound as those in the bubbles. hobble little bubble apple nettle Using a different coloured pen, add some made-up words to your bubbles to use in a nonsense recipe. There are many more words ending in le that have two different consonants together words like tickle, ramble, stumble, freckle and bundle. How many of these two-consonant le words can you think of? 9