ACELY1680
Use comprehension strategies to build literal and inferred meaning and begin to evaluate texts by drawing on a growing knowledge of context, text structures and language features
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 the information in print and images (Skills: Literacy, Critical and Creative Thinking)
- making predictions and asking and answering questions about the text drawing on knowledge of the topic, subject-specific vocabulary and experience of texts on the same topic (Skills: Literacy, Critical and Creative Thinking)
- using text features and search tools to locate information in written and digital texts efficiently (Skills: Literacy, Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Capability, Critical and Creative Thinking)
- determining important ideas, events or details in texts commenting on things learned or questions raised by reading, referring explicitly to the text for verification (Skills: Literacy, Critical and Creative Thinking)
- making considered inferences taking into account topic knowledge or a character's likely actions and feelings (Skills: Literacy, Critical and Creative Thinking)
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Applying Reading Comprehension Strategies Worksheets
A collection of worksheets to enable students to apply reading comprehension strategies.
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Comprehension Task Cards - Finding The Main Idea
A set of comprehension task cards to help students find the main idea when reading.
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Penguin Adaptations - Year 3 Reading Comprehension
Explore the fascinating world of penguins and their adaptations with our set of printable Year 3 Reading Comprehension worksheets.
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Great Barrier Reef Comprehension and Note Taking Worksheet
Learn about The Great Barrier Reef with a reading comprehension and note-taking activity.
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Dogs Make The Best Pets - Reading Comprehension Test
Assess reading comprehension skills with printable Reading and Writing Comprehension worksheets.
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Summarising a Story Graphic Organisers
Use these graphic organisers to help students when summarising a story.
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Drawing Conclusions and Making Inferences – Comprehension Task Cards
A set of comprehension task cards to help students draw conclusions and make inferences when reading.
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Compare and Contrast - Venn Diagram Template
A template to use when teaching students how to compare and contrast.
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Finding the Main Idea - Comprehension Task (Thunderstorms)
A task to use when teaching your students reading comprehension strategies.
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Phases of the Moon – Comprehension Worksheet
Analyse different moon phases and how their visual appearances change over time with this reading comprehension worksheet.
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Comprehension Task Cards - Distinguishing Between Fact and Opinion
A set of comprehension task cards to help students distinguish between fact and opinion when reading.
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I Have, Who Has? Fact and Opinion Game
A whole class game to help students understand the difference between a fact and an opinion.
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Comprehension Task Cards Summarising
Practise summarising text with these relevant events-based texts.
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Let's Get Ready to Rock! – Worksheet
A comprehension worksheet for the information report from the Year 3 magazine (Issue 2).
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Naked Mole Rat - Reading Comprehension Worksheets
Read and learn facts about the naked mole rat with a printable reading comprehension worksheet pack for year 4 and 5.
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Mars vs. Earth - Differentiated Paired Passage Worksheets
Learn about the planets with differentiated compare and contrast passages, activities and writing opportunities.
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Distinguishing Between Fact and Opinion - Comprehension Task
A task to use when teaching your students reading comprehension strategies.
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Fact or Opinion - Sentence Sort Worksheet
A worksheet to use when teaching students how to distinguish between fact or opinion.
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Making Inferences – Birthday Activity
Teach your students how to make inferences with this birthday invitation activity.
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True or False? Active Listening Exercises
Improve listening skills in the classroom with an engaging True or False Active Listening Activity.
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Extreme Environments: Lands of Ice and Sand – Worksheet
A comprehension worksheet for an information report from the Year 4 magazine (Issue 3).
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Recognise Cause and Effect Poster
A poster highlighting how to recognise cause and effect when reading a piece of text.
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How Does Water Get to Our Taps? – Worksheet
A comprehension worksheet for an information report from the Year 2 magazine (Issue 2).
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Comprehension - Thunderstorms
A comprehension activity using an information text about thunderstorms.
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Understanding Sequence - Comprehension Task
A task to use when teaching your students reading comprehension strategies.
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Recess Rules: True Friends – Worksheet
Learn about being a good friend while also brushing up on those reading comprehension skills with this comic strip activity.
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Fact or Opinion - Turtle Worksheet
A worksheet to use when teaching students how to distinguish between fact or opinion.
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Compare and Contrast - Comprehension Task
A task to use when teaching your students reading comprehension strategies.
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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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60 Comprehension Strategy Task Cards
A 144 page comprehension resource pack to help students apply comprehension strategies when reading.
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Comprehension Task Cards - Compare And Contrast
A set of comprehension task cards to help students compare and contrast when reading.
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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.