Miss Irving’s Reading Homework Name:

Handed out: Wednesday 15 th January

Due in: Tuesday 21 st January

Where are the rainforests?

Answer the following questions using the knowledge you now have from the first couple of CC

lessons and the information on the sheet attached.

Think carefully about whether it is asking you to retrieve information from the text or whether it

wants you to make inferences using evidence to support your answer.

1. Where can you find rainforests?

2. What is the weather like in the rainforests?

3. What is the name of the world’s largest rainforest?

4. When does the rainy season normally start?

5. Can you have tropical mountain rainforests? Use evidence to support your answer.

6. Write a few sentences about what you think it would be like to live in a rainforest. Use

evidence from the text in your answer.

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