The Reading Room

The Reading Room

This task is about understanding what you are reading.

Read "The Reading Room", pages 2 and 3 of School Journal Part 3 No 1 1998.

Answer the following questions.

a)  What part of the house does the title refer to? - The house refer to the bathroom.

b) standard font is about Lisa and italic is about the story that Lisa is reading.

1. Standard font (e.g., Mum's finished)

2. Italic

    (e.g. His feet feel ...)

c)  Give two reasons why Lisa does not want to be found.

1. Lisa does not want to be found because she wants to finish the book by not getting interrupted.
2.Lisa doesn't want to be found because she will get in trouble.

d)  Mark is the person in the story. 

e)  Lisa left the reading room because Lisa finished the book that she is reading 

f)  Kathy was probably going to tell on Lisa because
kathy thought that Lisa to the went toilet and thought  that Lisa didn’t flush the toilet.

g)  The story was about a girl named Lisa and she went into the bathroom. She read a book. She likes reading that book. It is about a person called Mark.
He has to get some help because he is in a snowstorm.

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