Thursday 27th May 2021

L.C. To draw inferences round characters’ thoughts and feelings justifying confidently with evidence from the text using point with evidence.

When answering questions about inferring information from a text, the question usually asks for evidence from the text. 

“He was especially tired of having to live in the same house as that grizzly old grunion of a Grandma. Looking after her all by himself was hardly the most exciting way to spend a Saturday morning.

‘You can make me a nice cup of tea for a start,’ Grandma said to George. ‘That’ll keep you out of mischief for a few minutes.’

‘Yes, Grandma,’ George said.

George couldn’t help disliking Grandma. She was a selfish grumpy old woman. She had pale brown teeth and a small puckered-up mouth like a dog’s bottom.

‘How much sugar in your tea today, Grandma?’ George asked her.

‘One spoon,’ she said. ‘And no milk.’

Most grandmothers are lovely, kind, helpful old ladies, but not this one. She spent all day and every day sitting in her chair by the window, and she was always complaining, grousing, grouching, grumbling, griping about something or other. Never once, even on her best days, had she smiled at George and said, ‘Well, how are you this morning, George?’ or ‘Why don’t you and I have a game of Snakes and Ladders? Or ‘How was school today?’ She didn’t seem to care about other people, only about herself. She was a miserable old grouch.

George went into the kitchen and made Grandma a cup of tea with a teabag. He put one spoon of sugar in it and no milk. He stirred the sugar well and carried the cup into the living-room.

Grandma sipped the tea. ‘It’s not sweet enough,’ she said. ‘Put more sugar in.’

George took the cup back to the kitchen and added another spoonful of sugar. He stirred it again and carried it carefully in to Grandma.

‘Where’s the saucer?’ she said. ‘I won’t have a cup without a saucer.’

George fetched her a saucer.

‘And what about a teaspoon, if you please?’

‘I’ve stirred it for you, Grandma. I stirred it well.’

‘I’ll stir my own tea, thank you very much,’ she said. ‘Fetch me a teaspoon.’

George fetched her a teaspoon.

When George’s mother or father were home, Grandma never ordered George about like this. It was only when she had him on her own that she began treating him badly.

What do we know about Grandma?

What does it say in the text to support this?

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What else do we know about Grandma?

What does it say in the text to support this?

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Your Task

On Seesaw, you have been given a text. Using evidence from the text to support your answers, write a sentence to explain how each person feels.