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Year 4 Reading Challenge Autumn 1

Mrs Khaliq

Hi year 4,

For your reading challenge this half term, read through the following non-fiction text about rainforests.

Rainforest-Text-for-Reading-ChallengeDownload

Answer the following questions in full sentences.

Bronze:

  1. Name two types of rainforest.
  2. Which rainforests are nearer to the equator – temperate or tropical?
  3. What percentage of natural medicines can be found in the rainforest?

Silver:

  1. Why are there no rainforests in Antarctica? Explain.
  2. How do animals communicate when they cannot see one another?
  3. Why has the author written the word ‘damp’ in brackets in the ‘Forest Floor’ section?

Gold:

Read the last line carefully. What is you opinion, and why?

Platinum:

Produce your own information text on the Brazilian rainforest, using your own research.

95 responses to “Year 4 Reading Challenge Autumn 1”

  1. Hadiya M.

    Bronze:
    The tropical rainforest and the Amazon Rainforest.

    Which rainforests are near the Equator = temperate or tropical?
    The tropical rainforest is more near to the equator.
    What percentage of natural medicines can be found inside the rainforest?
    Carbon dioxide is an natural medicine in the Rainforests.✋🏻😜

    Silver:
    There are no Rainforest in Antartica because rainforests need sunlight also not just snow ❄ and rain ☔ and Antartica is far away from the equator.
    By making noise like if a monkey needed to call it’s friends it could just go OO OO AA AA to call the other monkeys.
    The author has written `damp` in brackets because in the Amozon rainforest it rains a lot so it makes it like moisturiser.

    Gold:
    We can manage without rainforests only if we keep planting trees or flowers.😊✋🏻😜
    By Hadiya!

  2. Toleen S.

    Bronze

    1. Two types of rainforests are temperate and tropical.
    2. Tropical rainforests are closer to the equator.
    3. 25% of medicines and cures are from rainforests.

    Silver

    1. There are no rainforests in Antarctica because it’s far too cold.
    2. They make loud calls to communicate when they can’t see each other.
    3. The author put the word damp in brackets because it was the meaning of the word humid sometimes the words in stories or texts are hard for people to understand so the authors put another word for it.

    Gold

    I don’t think you can live without rainforests because they are used to get medicines, paper, oxygen, etc.

    Platinum

    Amazon Rainforest is a large tropical rainforest occupying the drainage basin of the Amazon River and its tributaries in northern South America and covering an area of 2,300,000 square miles (6,000,000 square km). Comprising about 40 percent of Brazil’s total area, it is bounded by the Guiana Highlands to the north, the Andes Mountains to the west, the Brazilian central plateau to the south, and the Atlantic Ocean to the east.

  3. Sumaya O.

    bronze
    Two rainforests are the tropical and temperate .
    tropical is near the Equator .
    25% of Natural medicine are found in the Rainforest.

    Silver
    There are no rainforests in Antartica because of how cool it is and cause Antartica is too far from the Equator .
    Animals that live in the canopy have to use loud calls to communicate because they cannot see each other because of the thick leaves .
    the author used the word damp because it is another word for moist .

  4. Emil D.

    Bronze
    (1)The two types of rainforests are tropical and temperate.
    (2)Tropical rainforests are closer to the Equator.
    (3) 25% of the medicines are found in the rainforests.
    Silver
    (1)There are no rainforests in antarctica because it’s to cold there.
    (2)Some animals jump tree to tree and some use loud calls to communicate when they cannot see each other.
    (3)Because the floor is wet but it looks dry.
    Gold
    My opinion would be to plant more and more trees and try to save paper.
    Also I said plant more trees because they take carbon dioxide and we can’t breathe carbon dioxide.

  5. Subodh K.

    bronze:
    1. the two rain forests are tropical and temperate🙂🥶
    2. tropical is near to the equator 🫠
    3. 25% of natural medcine is in the amezon rain forest 💊
    silver:
    there are no rain forests in atartitica because it is to cold 🥶
    they cummacat by screaming 📞
    the ather write damp because the rain forest was foogy

  6. Hamza M.

    Bronze:
    1. The Congo rainforest and the amazon rainforest .
    2. The type of rainforests that are closer to the equator are the tropical rainforests .
    3. 25 ٪ of medicine could be found in the rainforests .
    Silver:
    1. There is no rainforests in Antarctica because rainforests require large amounts of rainfall to be sustained while the entire continent of Antartica is dry.
    2. Animals communicate using signals.
    3.To make clear what he was saying .
    Gold :
    We can’t live without them because we wouldn’t have any oxygen without rainforests .

  7. Safaa Y.

    Bronze.
    1. Tropical and the Temperate
    2. Tropical
    3. 25 percent

  8. Havin A.

    Tropical rainforest and Amazon rainforest
    Tropical
    Coco plant
    It’s too 🥶
    They make calls with their loud voice

  9. Ranj M.

    Bronze
    There is two types called the temperate and the Tropical
    The closest to the equater is tropical not temperate.
    There can be 25 percent of rainforest plants treat
    cancer .
    Silver
    There can not be any rainforest in Antarctica because of the content is way to cold to be a structure of a rainforest and animals will not live because of the conditions like food
    You can talk when they can not see by saying something Specific like wolfs .
    The author used damp because this means it is plain and a posh word for nothing in the area .
    Gold
    My Opinion is we can not manage without carbon dioxide because trees breath that then they inhale oxygen with out it we can not breath probley unless we use plants which would be very hard

  10. Abigail F.

    Bronze
    1) Tropical zone and Temperature zone.
    2) It is tropical because it is nearer to the equator.
    3) 25%
    Silver
    1) Antarctica is at the bottom of the earth and further away from the equator. It is also too cold so that’s why it has no rainforest.
    2) Animals that live in the Canopy need to use their loud voices to communicate with each other.
    3) Because it is another word for humid.
    Gold
    In my opinion we should have more rainforest otherwise our live will be in danger. without rainforest people will be struggling to breathe.

  11. Tasneem S.

    Bronze
    A warm in the tropical zone near the equator – and the temperte zone which is far away from the equaor .
    Silver
    there is no rainforests in Antartica beacuse it is far to cold there
    by making noises like a bear growling on a mountain.
    he did damp in bracets because it is a nother word for humid
    gold
    Read the last line carefully. What is you opinion, and why?
    My opinion is we cant mange without carbon dioxide.
    platinum
    Produce your own information text on the Brazilian rainforest, using your own research.
    The Brazil Amozon rainforest is taking up more then half of bazil.Brazil is the second largest country in the world they are famous because of their beautiful beaches and big statuses on mountain in Brazil.

  12. Siyam A.

    Bronze
    Tropical and temperate.
    Tropical rainforest is near to the equator.
    25% of natural medicines can be found in the rainforest.

  13. Sumayyah A.

    The two types of rainforest are tropical and temperate.
    The nearest rainforest to the equator is the tropical rainforest.
    25% of natural medicine is found in the rainforest.

    The reason there are no rainforest in Antarctica is because it is far too cold.
    Animals communicate by doing loud calls because they cannot see each other.
    The author writes this because this describes the humidity in the forest.

  14. Zainullah S.

    Bronze
    1. Name two types of rainforest.
    The temperate and the tropical zone

    2. Which rainforests are nearer to the equator – temperate or tropical?
    The tropical is a warm zone near the equator.

    3. What percentage of natural medicines can be found in the rainforest?
    25% of natural medicine has been collected in the rainforest

    Silver
    1. There are no rainforests in Antarctica because it is way too cold there.

    2. Animals who live in the canopy use really loud calls to communicate because they can’t see each other.

    3. The author put the word damp in the brackets because in rainforests it rains a lot every year.

  15. Gift O.

    Bronze
    1. The tropical rainforest and the temperate rainforest.
    2. The tropical rainforest is the closest to the equator.
    3. 25 percent of the natural medicines can be found in the rainforest.
    Silver
    1. There are no rain forest in Antarctica because it is far too cold.
    2. The animals can communicate without seeing each other because they use loud calls and some can jump from tree to tree.
    3. The author has put damp in brackets because it is to show that the floor is wet.
    Gold
    my opinion is that we can’t live without carbon dioxide.

  16. Shemaiah W.

    Bronze:

    Name two types of rainforest.
    The tropical rainforest and the Amozon rain forest.

    Which rainforests are nearer to the equator – temperate or tropical?
    The tropical rainforest is more near to the equator.
    What percentage of natural medicines can be found in the rainforest?
    Carbon dioxide is an natural medicines.

    Silver:

    Why are there no rainforests in Antarctica? Explain.
    Because its far to cold there cause it is not nex to the equator.
    How do animals communicate when they cannot see one another?
    By making noise like if a wolf gouse on the mountain it holws to let his friends know he got there safely.
    Why has the author written the word ‘damp’ in brackets in the ‘Forest Floor’ section?
    Cause in the Amozon rainforest it rains a lot so it makes it moisturise.

    Gold:

    Read the last line carefully. What is you opinion, and why?
    My opinion is we cant mange without carbon dioxide.

    Platinum:

    Produce your own information text on the Brazilian rainforest, using your own research.
    The Brazil Amozon rainforest is taking up more then half of bazil.Brazil is the second largest country in the world they are famous because of their beautiful beaches and big statuses on mountain in Brazil.

  17. Haroon E.

    1 topical and temperate
    2 Temperate
    3 Amazon rainforest

  18. Rexford A.

    Bronze
    1. The names are Tropical and Temperate
    2. Tropical is Nearest to the equator
    3. 25% of natural medicine is in the Amazon Rainforest.
    Silver
    There are no rainforests in Antarctica because it is too cold the only animals that can go there is ones with a fursuit.
    Animals use loud calls for communication.
    The author put damp In brackets because there was dead animals on the ground.
    Gold
    My opinion is that we can’t live without them because we would have no oxygen nor carbon dioxide unless we use plants as our source of life.

    Rexford.A

    1. Mrs Jones

      Great work Redford.👍🏻

  19. Ahyan K.

    Tropical is closer to the equator because it is warm and cold at the same temperature
    3.25%
    Silvery
    There are no rainforests in Antarctica because it is to cold and animal can die by freezing to death
    They use loud calls to communicate
    The author wrote damp in brackets because it is another word for humid
    Gold my opinion is no because we cannot manage without them because it would make a huge dent in the oxygen the trees produce

  20. Dean-Junior L.

    Bronze
    1 Tropical and temperate
    2 Tropical is the closest one to the equator because it is hotter is tropical places
    3 25 %

    Silver
    1 There are no rainforests in Antarctica because it is too cold
    2 They use loud calls to communicate
    3 The author wrote damp in brackets because it is another word for humid

    Gold
    1 My opinion is no we cannot manage without them because it would take a huge dent in the oxygen the trees produce.

    Platinum
    The Brazilian rainforest is also called the Amazon rainforest ,covering much of northwestern Brazil and extending into Columbia.The Amazon rainforest covers an enormous 6.7million square meters.The Amazon is thought to 10% of know species on earth.The Amazon is home to 47 million people, including more than 2 million indigenous people.

  21. Hamida K.

    Silver:
    1.There are no rainforests in Antarctica because they are next to the equator.
    2. They live in the canopy so they use loud calls to communicate.
    3.The floor is where dead animals go.
    Gold:
    We can’t manege without them because they do so much for them.They give us photosynthesis and carbon dioxide.

  22. Abdelraham A.

    Bronze
    1. The Amazon is one and Congo rain forest.
    2.The tropical is near to the equater.
    3.25%of natural medicine is found in the rain forest
    Silver
    1. There are no rain forest’s because it is way to cold for the animals.
    2.They use big calls to communicate because they can’t see each other from the huge leafs.
    3.They use the word damp in () because it is another name for humid.
    Gold
    If there was no rain forests live with no oxygen and we could die because we use it to live.

  23. Abdelraham A.

    Bronze
    1. The Amazon is one and Congo rainforest.
    2.The tropical is near to the equater.
    3.25%of natural medicine is found in the rainforest
    Silver
    1. There are no rainforest’s because it is way to cold for the animals.
    2.They use big calls to communicate because they can’t see each other from the huge leafes.
    3.They use the word damp in () because it is anoth er name for humid.
    Gold
    If there whould live with no oxygen and we could die because we use it to live

  24. Tinuola T.

    Silver:
    1. There are no rainforest in Antartica because it is way too cold to even live there.
    2. They use loud calls because they can’t see eachother in the thick leaves.
    3. The author wrote it in brackets because they used other words for them and they just wrote the meaning in brackets for people who don’t know.

    Gold:
    We won’t really manage well because there is lots of water there and lots of medicines come from the herbs so if we are poorly then we might not be able to get the medicine we need.

  25. Tinuola T.

    Bronze:
    1. Tropical and Temperate.
    2. Tropical rainforest are nearer to the equator.
    3. Approximately 25% of medicine is found in the rainforests

  26. Isaiah W.

    Bronze
    1 Tropical and temperature
    2 tropical is closer to the equator because it is warm
    3 25% medicine is found in the forest
    Sliver
    1 I do not think there is one because it is to cold for summer animals
    2 when animals can not see another there make a loud sound to lead them away from each other to be safe
    3 they put Brit’s around damp because it is a another word for humid
    Gold
    If they take away the rainforest it would take away oxygen kill some animals that are in danger because the rainforest is they home

  27. Esa A.

    Bronze:
    1. Tropical rainforest and temperate rainforest
    2. the tropical rainforests are found closer to the equator where it is warm.
    3. 25% of natural medicine can be found in the rainforest.
    silver:
    1. There is no rainforest in Antarctica because it is far too cold there.
    2. Animals that live in the canopy have to use loud calls to communicate because they can not see each other in the thick leaves and some can jump from tree to tree.
    3. The writer used the word damp because he is telling that the canopy blocks -a lot of the light and it is humid.
    Gold:
    Rainforests are super important to our life, they make oxygen which we need to breathe .
    they also help keep our weather system stable and affect the water cycle.
    platinum:
    The Amazon rainforest, covering much of Northwestern Brazil and extending in to Colombia.
    in the last 50 years, Brazil’s Amazon has lost about a fifth of it’s forest. it is also houses at least 10% of the world’s known biodiversity, including endemic and endangered flora and fauna and it’s river accounts for 15 to 16% of the world’s total river discharge into the oceans.

  28. Aiza B.

    BRONZE;
    1. There is tropical forest and Temperate forest.
    2.Tropical is closer to the equator.
    3.25% natural medicine have been found in rainforest.
    SILVER;
    1. There is no rainforest in Antarctica because this place is a dry place.
    2. Animals have to communicate loudly to each other because they can not see each other in thick leaves.
    3. Author has written the word damp in ( ) because there is no light and air in the canopy and its humid ,
    GOLD;
    Forest are very important in our life because the green plants give use oxygen take in carbon dioxide. and they stable our weather conditions and help in rainfall by the process of condensation.

  29. Sami J.

    Bronze:

    Name two types of rainforest.
    temperate and tropical
    Which rainforests are nearer to the equator
    tropical
    What percentage of natural medicines can be found in the rainforest?
    25%of natural medicines can be found in the rainforest
    Silver:

    why are they no rainforests in antarctica
    There is no rainforest in Antarctica because rainforests require large amounts of rainfall to be sustained while the entire continent of Antarctica is dry.
    How do animals communicate when they cannot see one another?
    Animals communicate using signals.
    Why has the author written the word ‘damp’ in brackets in the ‘Forest Floor’ section?
    A damp is a small area with water.
    Gold:

    Read the last line carefully. What is your opinion, and why?
    no because then we car’nt breath.

  30. Chavi L.

    BRONZE:
    1. The two types of rainforest are the Tropical and Amazon rainforest
    2. The Tropical rainforest is near the equator which means that the rainforest has a condition of
    hot weather.
    3. 25% of natural medicines have been found in the rainforest.

    SILVER:
    1. There is no rainforest in Antarctica because it is a cold region.
    2.Animals communicate with one and other using loud voices and sounds because they cannot see each other in thick leaves.
    3.The Author has written (damp) in brackets because the forest floor is humid.

    GOLD:
    Rainforest are very important for us because without these we wont have enough oxygen to breathe and it would also effect the water cycle.

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