The Dual World of Anders Arnfield... RETRIEVAL

Recently we have been looking at 'retrieval' answers in our guided reading. We want to be able to locate answers quickly and efficiently so we are not constantly reading and re-reading the same passages of text. 
To help us do this, we have practiced picking out key words in the question and skimming and scanning the text for those words before reading around them to try and find the answer.


Example:


Where was Anders stood? The question is about the main character, Anders, and where he is standing so the key words I would look for are 'Anders' and 'stood' or words that are very closely linked.
My answer would be: in front of the giant gates of Pengreg Hall.

With these questions you can literally copy the answers from the text- easy!

Read the text below before having a go at the questions at the end. Bring your answers in next week and if you get them right you get a penny!

Fuelled by rage and revenge, Anders Arnfield stood in front of the giant gates of Pengreg Hall and raised his sword to face the snarling creature ahead. In front of him and for miles beyond lay the ruins of the ancient Gunders Wood, smouldering in ashes as the once tall trees lay forlorn on the forest floor. Behind the great house, over his shoulder, he could sense the path to freedom but he was determined not to take the easy way out.

There was no doubt in Anders’ mind that the creature bearing down on him was the same Klingenot he had encountered in his previous dreams; a creature he had so often doubted could be real. It sure looked real right now as he found himself not only the prey to this huge four-legged beast, but with the sole responsibility to defeat it. Over many months, he had become used to the dual worlds that he had gradually found himself living in: by night, the strange and mysterious happenings of Gunders Wood, overlooked by the marvellous Pengreg Hall; by day trying to fathom how those happenings linked and influenced his ordinary schoolboy life.

Casting his mind back two years, the young boy thought of the precious box given to him by his late grandmother before she returned to Norway. How he wished she had still been alive to answer his millions of questions. Was there a vital clue in the box that he was missing right now? Every part of the contents had turned out to be a clue to something or other. Some days he cursed the gift that his grandmother had given him: not the gift of the box though; the gift she had passed down in some other way. As often as he may curse it however, he couldn’t imagine life any different to the way it had become.

Unfortunately, he had little time to ponder the many burning questions. All that imminently mattered was how to hold off the baying beast ahead. With its arched stegosaurus-like spine and flaring dragon-like nostrils, the Klingenot was close enough for Anders to smell its stale breath.


1) What lay in front of Anders?
2) Where was the path to freedom?
3) What was the creature bearing down on Anders?
4) What was Anders responsible for?
5) Where did Anders find himself living?
6) Where was Anders' grandmother from?
7) What did the baying beast look like?

Good luck!