Reading Comprehension: The Best Cooked Potato

Reading Comprehension: Is It Possible? The Best Cooked Potato 20/09/17

Making Meaning Questions:

1. What was the fork used for in the experiment with the microwave oven?

Annie used the fork to stab and poke holes in the potato so it wouldn’t explode

2. What helped the children decide which was the best way to cook potatoes?

They looked at the method of how it was cooked, how long it took, and how much power was used to cook it.

3. What is meant by the sentence “Annie gave it another minute”?

Annie gave the potato another minute to cook in the microwave oven.

4. Which cooking method would be best if you preferred baked potatoes?

The best option would be to use a conventional oven.

5. How could you measure which method of cooking people liked most?

They couldn’t measure it/

6. Which of the cooking methods used the most power?

The conventional oven used the most power with 1.99kilowatts

7. Which of these three ways do you prefer potatoes to be cooked?

I prefer the conventional oven way because I like how the potatoes turn out, But if I were on a budget I would use the microwave because it is easier and uses less time and power.