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Use comprehension strategies to build literal and inferred meaning to expand content knowledge, integrating and linking ideas and analysing and evaluating texts
Elaborations
- making connections between the text and students' own experience and other texts (Skills: Literacy, Critical and Creative Thinking, Personal and Social Capability)
- making connections between information in print and images (Skills: Literacy, Critical and Creative Thinking)
- building and using prior knowledge and vocabulary (Skills: Literacy, Critical and Creative Thinking)
- finding specific literal information (Skills: Literacy, Critical and Creative Thinking)
- asking and answering questions (Skills: Literacy, Critical and Creative Thinking)
- creating mental images)
- finding the main idea of a text (Skills: Literacy, Critical and Creative Thinking)
- inferring meaning from the ways communication occurs in digital environments including the interplay between words, images, and sounds (Skills: Literacy, Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Capability, Critical and Creative Thinking)
- bringing subject and technical vocabulary and concept knowledge to new reading tasks, selecting and using texts for their pertinence to the task and the accuracy of their information (Skills: Literacy, Critical and Creative Thinking)
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Reading Comprehension Strategies PowerPoint - Activating Prior Knowledge
A 13 slide editable PowerPoint template explaining the reading comprehension strategy of activating prior knowledge.
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Making Predictions - Comprehension Task
A task to use when teaching your students reading comprehension strategies.
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Foldable Inferencing Template
Practise making inferences with this foldable template.
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Making an Inference – Graphic Organiser Pack
Use these graphic organisers with your students when teaching them how to use text evidence to make inferences.
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Year 4 Magazine – What’s Buzzing? (Issue 2)
A beautifully designed, 24-page reading magazine specifically designed for Year 4 students.
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Compare and Contrast Poster
A poster highlighting how to compare and contrast when reading a piece of text.
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The Moon of Planet Earth Worksheet
Engage your students with a high-interest reading passage about the moon with this informative article and accompanying response sheet.
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Comprehension Task Cards - Identifying Author's Purpose
A set of comprehension task cards to help students identify the author's purpose when reading.
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Reading Response Summarising – Template
A comprehension template for students to practise summarising.
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Angry Outbursts – Comprehension Worksheet
Explore emotional awareness and healthy calming strategies with this comic-style comprehension passage and accompanying questions.
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Distinguish Between Fact and Opinion Poster
A poster highlighting how to distinguish between fact and opinion when reading a piece of text.
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Inference vs Prediction Poster
A poster outlining the similarities and differences between inference and prediction.
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Author's Purpose Pie
A pie that shows the three main reasons an author writes a piece of text.
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Reading Response Character Report – Template
A comprehension template for students to write a character report about the text they have been reading.
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Comprehension Task Cards - Recalling Facts And Details
A set of comprehension task cards to help students recall facts and details when reading.
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Comprehension - Roald Dahl
A comprehension activity using a biography of Roald Dahl.
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Reciprocal Teaching Role Bookmarks
A set of 4 colourful bookmarks explaining reciprocal teaching roles.
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Australian Conservationists: Miranda Gibson – Comprehension Worksheet
Learn about Miranda Gibson and her conservation work with this 2-page reading passage and accompanying comprehension questions.
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Australian Conservationists: Ian Kiernan – Comprehension Worksheet
Learn about Ian Kiernan and his conservation work with this 2-page reading passage and accompanying comprehension questions.
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Finding The Main Idea - Comprehension Task (Turtles)
Explore the wonderful world of turtles with this comprehension task focusing on the main idea.
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Reading Response Journal – Comprehension Templates
A journal with comprehension sheets designed for students to study texts.
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Five Wonders Theme Park – Stimulus Posters
A number of stimulus posters all themed around Five Wonders Theme Park.
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Hermes' Hocus Pocus – Comprehension Worksheet
A comprehension worksheet for a narrative from the Year 3 magazine (Issue 3).
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J. K. Rowling Biography – Worksheet
A comprehension worksheet for a biography from the Year 5 magazine (Issue 2).
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Author's Purpose - Sorting Worksheet
A teaching resource to help teach your students the different reasons authors may write.
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120 Comprehension Strategy Question Cards
A set of 120 open-ended question cards to help students apply comprehension strategies when reading.
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Comprehension - Solar Force Five
A fun script and set of questions to help students develop reading and comprehension strategies.
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Reading Detectives Resource Pack
A 16 page resource pack including 8 detective roles to assign to students during guided reading sessions.
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Comprehension - Thunderstorms
A comprehension activity using an information text about thunderstorms.
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Identify Author's Purpose Poster
A poster highlighting how to identify the author's purpose when reading a piece of text.
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Australian Conservationists: John Walmsley – Comprehension Worksheet
Learn about Dr John Walmsley and his conservation work with this 2-page reading passage and accompanying comprehension questions.
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The Christmas Pickle Reading Comprehension Worksheet
Learn about the Christmas Pickle Tradition and practise reading comprehension skills with a printable reading passage worksheet pack.