--- title: Reading for pleasure and the reading book at home — how Mova does on the tests · English description: Lesson 16 of the english course of Mova's primary school: 4 of 11 tests right, exam 1 of 4, every question with the options, the student's choice, the right answer and why it chose. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/english/16-reading-for-pleasure-and-the-reading-book-at-home/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/) / [English](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/english/) / 16 # Reading for pleasure and the reading book at home **Tests:** 4 of 11 right · **Exam:** 1 of 4 right · **Kind:** plain · **Understood:** 10 of 15 · **Run:** 2026-10-18, commit `f3c23ea72` Lesson 16 of the english course of Mova's primary school, as Mova's small model took its tests: it had read this lesson and the ones before it and learned from their exercises. Each test shows the options in the order the student saw them, its choice, the right answer, the score of every option and why it chose. The lesson itself, sentence by sentence with trees and pragmatics: [the lesson in the corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/16-reading-for-pleasure-and-the-reading-book-at-home/). Every question of this lesson and each of its options parsed by Mova, with trees and pragmatics: [the lesson's questions in the corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/16-reading-for-pleasure-and-the-reading-book-at-home/). ### Test 1 · wrong ✗ {#t1} ★★★ Kai's page: he can't read «enormous» and «gnarled», and doesn't know what «quarrel» means. He says, «Only 2 words I can't read, so 2 fingers, just right.» What's wrong? - **1.** Nothing, only words you can't say out loud count — no support - **2.** He forgot «quarrel»: words he doesn't know count too, so it's 3 — **✓ the right answer** · score 0 - **3.** He should count every word on the page, not just hard ones — **← Mova's choice** · score 10 - **4.** It's 3 fingers, and 3 means far too hard for him — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 10, against 0 for the next best. Its support: lesson 16, line 11: «The five-finger test: on one page, count the words you can't read or don't know; four or five means the book is too hard to read alone for now.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same place «one page» (+4); the same action «count» (+3); the same thing acted on «words» (+3). The right option, 2, scored 0. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/16-reading-for-pleasure-and-the-reading-book-at-home/t1/) ### Test 2 · right ✓ {#t2} «bro audiobooks are cheating, u didn't read nothing». Fair? - **1.** No, they build words and stories, though print practice matters too — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 6 - **2.** Yes, only reading out loud to a teacher at school really counts as reading — no support - **3.** Yes, listening to a book teaches you nothing at all — score 2 - **4.** No, audiobooks are better than print in every way — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 6, against 2 for the next best. Its support: lesson 16, line 9: «Audiobooks build vocabulary, understanding and a love of stories, but they do not practise reading printed words, so children use both.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «audiobooks» (+3); the same action «build» (+2); a different thing acted on (counts against) (+1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/16-reading-for-pleasure-and-the-reading-book-at-home/t2/) ### Test 3 · right ✓ {#t3} Gran: «comics rot your brain, give her a proper book.» What would you say? - **1.** Comics are real reading, and she can have other books too — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 8 - **2.** Comics are only for very little children — no support - **3.** Gran's right, the pictures do the work so children stop thinking for themselves — no support - **4.** Gran's right, comics have no words worth learning — score 8 **Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 1 with score 8, tied with another option at 8 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 16, line 3: «Kai picks a library book far too hard, and the librarian says, «Try five fingers.» Open a page in the middle and read it; put up one finger for each word you c…», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+5); the same thing acted on «book» (+3). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/16-reading-for-pleasure-and-the-reading-book-at-home/t3/) ### Test 4 · wrong ✗ {#t4} Dad: «I'm no reader, me, nowt I can do for the lad.» (nowt is northern for nothing.) What's true? - **1.** He's right, only good readers can help a child — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** He must read the whole book on his own first, before he talks to his son about it — no support - **3.** He should leave reading to the school completely — no support - **4.** He can listen and ask questions, and that helps a lot — **✓ the right answer** · no support **Why:** No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/16-reading-for-pleasure-and-the-reading-book-at-home/t4/) ### Test 5 · wrong ✗ {#t5} ★★★ Mum signs «Read 3 pages, good» every night for a month. The teacher still doesn't know Ollie finds «ough» words hard. Why not? - **1.** Three pages a night is far too few to be seen — no support - **2.** The teacher only reads the records in the summer — **← Mova's choice** · score 6 - **3.** The notes never say what went well or what was hard — **✓ the right answer** · score 2 - **4.** Ollie must have hidden the reading record — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 6, against 2 for the next best. Its support: lesson 4, line 1: «A silent e at the end of a word reaches back over one consonant and makes the vowel say its name: hop becomes hope, kit becomes kite, cub becomes cube. Schools…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «teacher» (+3); the same action «read» (+2); a different thing acted on (counts against) (+1). The right option, 3, scored 2. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/16-reading-for-pleasure-and-the-reading-book-at-home/t5/) ### Test 6 · wrong ✗ {#t6} What would probably happen if Ollie read only books with five tricky words on every page? - **1.** He'd get stuck and stop enjoying reading — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **2.** He'd become a free reader by next week, because hard books are quicker — no support - **3.** He'd learn to read twice as fast — **← Mova's choice** · score 2 - **4.** Nothing, hard books are always best — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask what happens next. It chose option 3 with score 2, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 13, line 4: «Say words slowly when you spell them. Many people say «libry» and «Febuary», dropping a part in fast speech, but the spelling keeps every part: li-brar-y, Feb-…», reached through what followed the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «say» (+4). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-2). The right option, 1, found no support in what it remembers. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/16-reading-for-pleasure-and-the-reading-book-at-home/t6/) ### Test 7 · right ✓ {#t7} Sam: «Grandad still reads to me, I'm 9, so cringe.» Is it babyish? - **1.** No, it helps even children who can read alone — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 9 - **2.** Yes, reading aloud should stop once you can read — score 6 - **3.** Yes, it slows your own reading right down — no support - **4.** No, but only if the book is a baby book — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 9, against 6 for the next best. Its support: lesson 16, line 10: «Hearing a book read aloud still helps children who can read alone: they meet harder books, new words and how expression sounds.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «read» (+3); the same doer «children» (+3); the same property (+3). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/16-reading-for-pleasure-and-the-reading-book-at-home/t7/) ### Test 8 · wrong ✗ {#t8} «lol he's a free reader so he's done with reading, innit». Right? - **1.** Yes, free readers don't take books home — **← Mova's choice** · score 3 - **2.** No, free readers still read every day — **✓ the right answer** · score 3 - **3.** Yes, free readers have learned everything — no support - **4.** No, free readers go back to book bands — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 3, tied with another option at 3 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 16, line 14: «A free reader chooses any book from the library instead of banded books, and still needs to read a little every day.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «free reader» (+3); the same action «choose» (+2); the same thing acted on «book» (+1). Against it: one says «not», the other does not (counts against) (-3). The right option, 2, scored 3. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/16-reading-for-pleasure-and-the-reading-book-at-home/t8/) ### Test 9 · wrong ✗ {#t9} In a cartoon, a boy reads one huge book overnight and wakes up a genius. What is true in real life? - **1.** Only reading at school makes you clever — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** Reading at night doesn't count at all — no support - **3.** Readers grow slowly, a little every day — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **4.** One hard book makes you a genius overnight — no support **Why:** No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/16-reading-for-pleasure-and-the-reading-book-at-home/t9/) ### Test 10 · wrong ✗ {#t10} ★★★ Tyler reads gaming guides, Freya reads comics and Nadia listens to audiobooks. Which one is NOT practising reading printed words? - **1.** None of them, all three are reading print — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** Nadia — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **3.** Tyler — no support - **4.** Freya — no support **Why:** No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/16-reading-for-pleasure-and-the-reading-book-at-home/t10/) ### Test 11 · right ✓ {#t11} Kids swap books and talk about them. Why does that help? - **1.** It gets them out of doing their homework — no support - **2.** It only helps the teacher save money — no support - **3.** It makes reading more fun and helps them choose — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 3 - **4.** It means they don't need to read the books themselves, only hear about them — score 2 **Why:** It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 3 with score 3, against 2 for the next best. Its support: lesson 16, line 15: «Talking about books and swapping them with friends makes reading more fun.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same thing acted on «more fun» (+3); the same action «read» (+2). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/16-reading-for-pleasure-and-the-reading-book-at-home/t11/) ### Exam question 1 · formal language · right ✓ {#e1} Which of the following statements most accurately characterises the function of a book band in the primary school? - **1.** It denotes the colour of the book's cover for purposes of display — no support - **2.** It matches early reading books to the level at which a child can read independently — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 9 - **3.** It records the number of books a child has completed in the term — no support - **4.** It indicates that the book is intended solely for pupils of a younger age than the reader concerned — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 2 with score 9, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 16, line 6: «Studies have found that children who read for pleasure tend to know more words and do better at school, though it is hard to measure exactly how much the readi…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+4); the same doer «children» (+3); the same action «read» (+2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/16-reading-for-pleasure-and-the-reading-book-at-home/e1/) ### Exam question 2 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e2} Identify the principal reason for which a parent who reads little may nevertheless assist a child's reading. - **1.** Such a parent is obliged by law to attend reading classes — no support - **2.** Children learn to read exclusively by the imitation of their parents, irrespective of instruction — **← Mova's choice** · score 6 - **3.** Listening and discussion of the story are themselves of substantial benefit — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **4.** The school forbids parents who read a great deal from assisting — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 6, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 3, line 12: «Recognising a word when reading is easier than recalling its spelling, so children often read a word before they can spell it.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «read» (+3); the same doer «children» (+3). The right option, 3, found no support in what it remembers. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/16-reading-for-pleasure-and-the-reading-book-at-home/e2/) ### Exam question 3 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e3} Pursuant to the five-finger test, a pupil who encounters five unfamiliar or unreadable words upon a single page should conclude that the book is: - **1.** Ideally suited to independent reading — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** Excessively easy and therefore to be discarded — no support - **3.** To be avoided permanently thereafter — no support - **4.** Presently too difficult to be read independently — **✓ the right answer** · no support **Why:** No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/16-reading-for-pleasure-and-the-reading-book-at-home/e3/) ### Exam question 4 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e4} Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning audiobooks. - **1.** They are permitted only for pupils who are unable to read — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** They develop vocabulary and comprehension but do not practise the decoding of print — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **3.** They constitute no form of engagement with books whatsoever — no support - **4.** They are identical in every respect to the reading of printed text and may wholly replace it — no support **Why:** Nothing it remembers matched the question, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/16-reading-for-pleasure-and-the-reading-book-at-home/e4/) - ← previous: [15. How to learn spellings that stick](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/english/15-how-to-learn-spellings-that-stick/) - next →: [17. Retrieval: finding the answer in the text](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/english/17-retrieval-finding-the-answer-in-the-text/) - ↑ back to [English](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/english/)