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Use comprehension strategies to interpret and analyse information and ideas, comparing content from a variety of textual sources including media and digital texts
Elaborations
- making connections between the text and students' own experience or 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)
- finding specific literal information (Skills: Literacy)
- using prior knowledge and textual information to make inferences and predictions (Skills: Literacy, Critical and Creative Thinking)
- asking and answering questions (Skills: Literacy, Critical and Creative Thinking)
- finding the main idea of a text (Skills: Literacy, Critical and Creative Thinking)
- summarising a text or part of a text (Skills: Literacy, Critical and Creative Thinking)
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