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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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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Understand how vocabulary is used to express greater precision of meaning, including through the use of specialist and technical terms, and explore the history of words
Use comprehension strategies such as visualising, predicting, connecting, summarising, monitoring and questioning to build literal and inferred meaning to evaluate information and ideas
Use comprehension strategies such as visualising, predicting, connecting, summarising, monitoring and questioning to build literal and inferred meaning, and to connect and compare content from a variety of sources
Understand how vocabulary is used to express greater precision of meaning, including through the use of specialist and technical terms <ul> <li>using precise words for naming; for example, instead of ‘mammal’ or ‘whale’, using ‘humpback whale’</li> </ul>
Use comprehension strategies, such as visualising, predicting, connecting, summarising, monitoring and questioning, to evaluate information and ideas to build literal and inferred meanings <ul> <li>summarising ideas and information to determine the main idea of a text</li> <li>using research skills, including identifying research purpose; locating texts; gathering and organising information; evaluating relative value; evaluating the accuracy and currency of print and digital sources; and summarising information from several sources</li> <li>comparing texts on the same topic to identify similarities and differences in the ideas or information included</li> </ul>
Use comprehension strategies, such as visualising, predicting, connecting, summarising, monitoring and questioning, and connect and compare ideas from a variety of sources to build literal and inferred meanings <ul> <li>making connections between the text and their own experiences or other texts</li> <li>making connections between information in print and images</li> <li>using prior knowledge and textual information to make inferences</li> <li>asking and answering questions</li> <li>using graphic organisers to visualise connections, categories and hierarchies of information</li> <li>summarising a text or part of a text</li> </ul>
Extends Tier 2 and Tier 3 vocabulary through interacting, wide reading and writing, morphological analysis and generating precise definitions for specific contexts
Fluently reads and comprehends texts for wide purposes, analysing text structures and language, and by monitoring comprehension
Plans, creates and revises written texts for multiple purposes and audiences through a selection of text features, sentence-level grammar, punctuation and word-level language
Analyses representations of ideas in literature through narrative, character, imagery, symbol and connotation, and adapts these representations when creating texts
Analyses representations of ideas in literature through genre and theme that reflect perspective and context, argument and authority, and adapts these representations when creating texts
Understand the use of vocabulary to express greater precision of meaning, and know that words can have different meanings in different contextsElaborationsmoving from general, 'all-purpose' words, for example 'cut', to more specific words, fo...
Use comprehension strategies to analyse information, integrating and linking ideas from a variety of print and digital sourcesElaborationsusing research skills including identifying research purpose, locating texts, gathering and organising informati...
Use comprehension strategies to interpret and analyse information and ideas, comparing content from a variety of textual sources including media and digital textsElaborationsmaking connections between the text and studentsâ own experience or oth...
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