Reading Comprehension Teaching Resources
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Applying Reading Comprehension Strategies Unit Plan
This English unit is designed to explicitly teach the reading comprehension strategies of activating prior knowledge, making connections, questioning, monitoring, predicting, inferring, visualising and summarising to upper primary students, with a focus on literary texts.
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The Missing Mona Lisa - Chapter 2: I Saw You!
Now it's time for the Adventure Agents to learn some of the main characters and look at their witness statements. They will have the first pieces of this fun puzzle!
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Forms of Poetry
A 60 minute lesson in which students will explore some well-known and commonly used forms of fixed verse.
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Sound Play in Poetry - Onomatopoeia
A 60 minute lesson in which students will identify and explore onomatopoeia in poetry.
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Summarising
A 60 minute lesson in which students will learn and apply the reading comprehension strategy of summarising.
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Research Skills - Note Taking
A 60 minute lesson in which students will take appropriate notes from an informative text.
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Elements of Poetry
A 60 minute lesson in which students will explore the common elements found in poetry.
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Sound Play in Poetry - Alliteration
A 60 minute lesson in which students will identify and explore alliteration in poetry.
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Research Skills - Note Taking
A 60 minute lesson in which students will take appropriate notes from an informative text.
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Activating Prior Knowledge
A 60 minute lesson in which students will learn and apply the reading comprehension strategy of activating prior knowledge.
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The Poet's Lament
A 60 minute lesson in which students will explore their preconceived ideas and attitudes towards poetry.
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Inferring
A 60 minute lesson in which students will learn and apply the reading comprehension strategy of inferring.
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Exploring Poetic Devices
A 60 minute lesson in which students will explore the common literary devices found in poetry.
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Purpose, Audience and Context
A 60 minute lesson in which students will identify the purpose, intended audience and subject matter of a poem.
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Idioms
A 60 minute lesson in which students will explore some commonly used idioms.
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Sound Devices
A 60 minute lesson in which students will identify and investigate sound devices in poetry.
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Fact or Opinion?
A 60 minute lesson in which students will identify the difference between a fact and an opinion.
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Visualising
A 60 minute lesson in which students will learn and apply the reading comprehension strategy of visualising.
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Predicting
A 60 minute lesson in which students will learn and apply the reading comprehension strategy of predicting.
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Monitoring
A 60 minute lesson in which students will learn and apply the reading comprehension strategy of monitoring.
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Questioning
A 60 minute lesson in which students will learn and apply the reading comprehension strategy of questioning.
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The Missing Mona Lisa – Chapter 4: Questions and Answers
This chapter of the exciting Missing Mona Lisa Adventure provides the Adventure Agents with three police interviews from the five main suspects. What extra clues will they provide to help find the thief?
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Imagery in Poetry
A 60 minute lesson in which students will identify and explore imagery in poetry.
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Word Play in Poetry
A 60 minute lesson in which students will identify and explore word play in poetry.
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Figurative Language
A 60 minute lesson in which students will identify and investigate figurative language in poetry.
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Structure, Rhyme and Rhythm
A 60 minute lesson in which students will identify and investigate structure, rhyme and rhythm in poetry.
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Poetry Defined
A 60 minute lesson in which students will develop an understanding of what constitutes poetry.
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Fact or Opinion?
A 60 minute lesson in which students will identify the difference between a fact and an opinion.
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Making Connections
A 60 minute lesson in which students will learn and apply the reading comprehension strategy of making connections.
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Inference vs Prediction
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Storytelling Through Poetry
A 60 minute lesson in which students will explore storytelling through poetry.
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Little Red Riding Hood Story Video
Introduce a fresh version of the Little Red Riding Hood story to your students with this animated video perfect for younger students.
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