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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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The Park - Comprehension
A comprehension activity using poetry.
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Understanding Sequence - Jack and the Beanstalk
A worksheet to use when teaching students how to understand sequence when reading.
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Inferring and Drawing Conclusions Poster
A poster highlighting how to draw conclusions and make inferences when reading a piece of text.
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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.
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Reading Response Making Connections – Template
A comprehension template for students to learn how to make connections.
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Reading Response Retelling Important Events– Template
A comprehension template for students to revise important parts of a text.
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Tricky Tongue Twisters – Worksheet
A comprehension worksheet for a magazine article from the Year 3 magazine (Issue 3).
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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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Letter to the Editor (Pet Ownership) – Worksheet
A comprehension worksheet for a letter to the editor from the Year 4 magazine (Issue 3).
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Letter to the Editor (School Crossing Concerns) – Worksheet
A comprehension worksheet for a letter to the editor from the Year 5 magazine (Issue 2).
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Recess Rules: The More the Merrier – Worksheet
A comprehension worksheet for a comic about the importance of making a variety of friendships.
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Year 4 Magazine – "What's Buzzing?" (Issue 3) Task Cards
A set of five literacy rotation task cards to be used in conjunction with Issue 3 of Teach Starter’s Year 4 magazine.
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Activate Prior Knowledge Poster
A poster highlighting how to activate prior knowledge when reading a piece of text.
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Ask Questions Poster
A poster highlighting how to ask questions when reading a piece of text.
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Finding Word Meaning In Context - Text And Word Meaning Worksheet
A teaching resource to help teach your students how to find word meaning in context.
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Sequencing - Events Worksheet
A worksheet to use when teaching students how to sequence important events when reading.
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Comprehension - Treasure Map
A fun script and set of questions to help students develop reading and comprehension strategies.
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Comprehension - Grandpa's Birthday Surprise
A fun script and set of questions to help students develop reading and comprehension strategies.
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Comprehension - That's Not My Pet
A fun script and set of questions to help students develop reading and comprehension strategies.
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Activating Prior Knowledge - Comprehension Strategy Task Cards
A set of 12 task cards to help students activate their prior knowledge before reading.
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Distinguish Between Real and Make-Believe Poster
A poster highlighting how to distinguish between real and make-believe when reading a piece of text.
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Understand Sequence Poster
A poster highlighting how to sequence when reading a piece of text.
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Making Predictions with Books - Worksheet
A worksheet to use when teaching students how to make predictions when reading.
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Rio de Janeiro - Comprehension Task
A comprehension task that encourages students to apply a range of comprehension skills when finding out interesting fun facts about Rio.
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Haunted House Worksheets - Descriptive Writing Activity
Draw and write about scary Halloween houses with a printable Halloween descriptive writing activity pack.
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Finding the Main Idea Graphic Organiser - Beehive
A graphic organiser to help students work out the main idea and supporting detail of a text.
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10 Fascinating Facts About Mauna Kea – Comprehension Worksheet
A comprehension worksheet for an article about ten facts about Mauna Kea in Hawaii.
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The Adventures of Pirate Nup and Captain Yet – Comprehension Worksheet
A comprehension worksheet for a narrative from the Year 4 magazine (Issue 3).
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Visualise Poster
A poster highlighting how to visualise when reading a piece of text.
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Author's Purpose - Puzzle Activity
A teaching resource to help teach your students the different reasons authors may write.
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Comprehension Task Cards - Distinguishing Between Real And Make-Believe
A set of comprehension task cards to help students distinguish between real and make-believe when reading.