ACELY1713
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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J. K. Rowling Biography – Worksheet
A comprehension worksheet for a biography from the Year 5 magazine (Issue 2).
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A 15 slide editable PowerPoint template explaining the reading comprehension strategy of questioning.
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Reading Comprehension Strategies PowerPoint - Predicting
A 14 slide editable PowerPoint template explaining the reading comprehension strategy of predicting.
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Reflect on a chapter in a class novel using this one-page worksheet.
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A comprehension activity using poetry.
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Bloom's Taxonomy Fast Finisher Task Cards - Upper Years
44 Bloom's Taxonomy fast finisher activity cards.
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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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A comprehension worksheet for a comic about the importance of physical activity to a healthy lifestyle.
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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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A 12 slide editable PowerPoint template explaining the reading comprehension strategy of visualising.
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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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Explore the history and systems of voting in Australia with this differentiated reading comprehension activity.
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Reading Response Summarising – Template
A comprehension template for students to practise summarising.
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Comprehension Task Cards - Making Predictions
A set of comprehension task cards to help students make predictions when reading.
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A comprehension worksheet for a comic from the Year 5 magazine (Issue 3).
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A comprehension worksheet for an information report from the Year 5 magazine (Issue 2).
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A set of comprehension task cards to help students understand sequence when reading.
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Reading Comprehension Strategies PowerPoint - Monitoring
A 14 slide editable PowerPoint template explaining the reading comprehension strategy of monitoring.
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A poster explaining how to activate prior knowledge before reading.
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