Today, we read
The boys wrote some wonderful descriptions about these ‘wild things’.
Can you remember the story well enough to answer these comprehension questions?
(1) What sound do the wild things make?
(2) Why did Max send the wild things off without their supper?
(3) When Max felt lonely where did he want to be?
(4) Why did the wild things want to eat Max up?
(5) Why did Max want to leave the wild things?
(6) Where did Max go at the end of the story?
(7) Would you like to visit the wild things? Why or why not?
This text may help you if you get stuck,
‘Where the Wild Things Are’
And when he came to the place where the wild things are they roared their terrible roars and gnashed their terrible teeth and rolled their terrible claws until Max said “BE STILL!” and tamed them with a magic trick of staring in to all their yellow eyes without blinking once and they were frightened and called him the most wild thing of all and made him king of all the wild things. “And now”, cried Max “let the wild rumpus start!”
“Now stop!” Max said and sent the wild things off to bed without their supper. And Max the king of all wild things was lonely and wanted to be where someone loved him best of all.
Then all around from far away across the world he smelled good things to eat so he gave up being king of where the wild things are. But the wild things cried, “Oh please don’t go – we’ll eat you up – we love you so!”
And Max said, “No!”
The wild things roared their terrible roars and gnashed their terrible teeth and rolled their terrible eyes and showed their terrible claws, but Max stepped in to his private boat and waved good-bye. He sailed back over a year and in and out of weeks and through a day and in to the night of his very own room where he found his supper waiting for him and it was still hot.
