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Earlier this month almost 600,000 10- and 11-year-olds were tested��on their reading skills by sitting a Sats paper that��reduced some pupils to tears.

Now the Department for Education has published the materials, which include three texts. The first describes a garden party. There is also��a newspaper report on��dodos and an extract from a Lauren St John story describing a girl who rides a giraffe across the savannah.

TES reported that concerns from some teachers that the papers were too middle-class -��perhaps prompted by the first extract, The Lost Queen. It��describes two children sneaking away during a garden party at��the ancestral home of a girl whose family once married into royalty. They explore the grounds of this “big house”, which has its own lake, island and��secret marble��monument.

But can you answer questions such as “What were Martine’s grandmother’s rules about riding the giraffe?” ��and tell us what you think in the��comments box below.

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