Questions on 'The Hitchhiker'

Last updated: 15/11/2023
Contributor: Dinah Hooper
Questions on 'The Hitchhiker'
Main Subject
Key stage
Category
English
Resource type
Assessment
Student activity
Worksheet
Author
Roald Dahl

A series of five structured comprehension and inference questions based on Roald Dahl's popular KS3 short story. Skills include:

  • information retrieval
  • inference
  • language analysis.

Would be suitable for assessment of students' understanding of the whole text.

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Nice questions at a higher level than some of the other resources I've got for this story. Thanks!

Neil Mercer

09/12/2020

where are the anwers ?

kaylee m

17/05/2020

Excellent thanks

Denise Ryan

12/04/2018

As extension work for reading skills & text analyses. I also connected the story to my unit on Writing Reports / Facts vs Opinios: I asked the students to pose as the police officer and write a report about his encounter with the hitchhiker and driver.

Marianne Covo

13/03/2014

Nice questions at a higher level than some of the other resources I've got for this story. Thanks!

Neil Mercer

09/12/2020

where are the anwers ?

kaylee m

17/05/2020

Excellent thanks

Denise Ryan

12/04/2018

As extension work for reading skills & text analyses. I also connected the story to my unit on Writing Reports / Facts vs Opinios: I asked the students to pose as the police officer and write a report about his encounter with the hitchhiker and driver.

Marianne Covo

13/03/2014