Reading Teaching Resources for Year 4
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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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Predicting
A 60 minute lesson in which students will learn and apply the reading comprehension strategy of predicting.
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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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Visualising
A 60 minute lesson in which students will learn and apply the reading comprehension strategy of visualising.
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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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Making Connections
A 60 minute lesson in which students will learn and apply the reading comprehension strategy of making connections.
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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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Fact or Opinion?
A 60 minute lesson in which students will identify the difference between a fact and an opinion.
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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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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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Storytelling Through Poetry
A 60 minute lesson in which students will explore storytelling through poetry.
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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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Using Homophones Unit Plan
This English unit addresses the concept of homophones.
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Inference vs Prediction
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Defining Homophones
A 60 minute lesson in which students will connect a homophone with its correct definition based on its spelling.
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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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Introduction to Homophones
A 60 minute lesson in which students will identify basic homophones in the English language.
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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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Sound Play in Poetry - Onomatopoeia
A 60 minute lesson in which students will identify and explore onomatopoeia 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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What Are Homophones? Video
Explore common homophones with this animated video perfect for primary school vocabulary lessons.
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Exploring Poetry - Year 3 and Year 4 Unit Plan
This English unit addresses common poetic devices such as sound play, word play and imagery and explores how these may be applied to narrative poetry.
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Common Homophones
A 60 minute lesson in which students will choose the correct homophone to use in the context of a sentence.
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A Thinker Like Me – Animated Poem Video
Use this short animated poem video with your students to explore and appreciate the poem, 'A Thinker Like Me' by Stephanie Mulrooney.
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Classroom Reading Corner Ideas That Improve Student Literacy — Teacher-Tested Tips
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