Chapter Graphic
 : Smarties
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Approach: Station Level: 4 & 8 
Focus:   Comprehension 
Resources: Recording book
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Questions/instructions:
How Smarties are Made.
Smarties have a chocolate centre. To make the centre, chocolate is taken from a storage tank and melted. The melted chocolate is then poured between two very cold metal rollers. The rollers squash the chocolate into round shapes. These are cooled and the edges are smoothed off. The chocolate centres are now ready for the coloured coating.

Smarties come in eight different colours. All the Smarties are coated in sugar, syrup and flour. The Smarties are dried to stop them sticking together. Then each Smartie is coloured and polished to make it bright and shiny.

The different coloured Smarties are mixed together and packaged into boxes to sell in shops.

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Put a circle around the best answer.
1. The chocolate in the storage tank needs to be:
    a. heated
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    b. cooled  
    c. stirred  
    d. squashed  
2. The round chocolate shapes are made using:
    a. a chocolate squirter  
    b. a sieve  
    c. rollers
c
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    d. a cutter  
3. All the Smarties are covered with:  
    a. more chocolate
    b. sugar, syrup and flour
b
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    c. water
    d. polish
4. How many different Smarties are there?
    a. 6
    b. 7
    c. 12
    d. 8
d
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5. Smarties are polished to:
    a. clean them
    b. stop them sticking
    c. make them shiny
c
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    d. protect them
 
Total score:
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3
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12
2
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4
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Commentary:
The first question was more challenging, probably because it involved inference. About 50 percent of year 4 and 80 percent of year 8 students got no more than one question wrong.
 
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