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Activating Prior Knowledge - Comprehension Strategy Task Cards

In English Reading Reading and Comprehension Strategies

PDF | 3 pages|Grades: 3 - 7

A set of 12 task cards to help students activate their prior knowledge before reading.

This teaching resource includes 12 task cards to help students activate their prior knowledge before reading.

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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.

8 lessons 4 - 6

NSW Curriculum alignment

EN2-11D
Responds to and composes a range of texts that express viewpoints of the world similar to and different from their own
In English Stage 2 D. Express themselves and their relationships with others and their world
EN3-3A
Uses an integrated range of skills, strategies and knowledge to read, view and comprehend a wide range of texts in different media and technologies
In English Stage 3 A. Communicate through speaking, listening, reading, writing, viewing and representing

Victorian Curriculum alignment

VCELY347
Use comprehension strategies to interpret and analyse information and ideas, comparing content from a variety of textual sources including media and digital texts
In English Level 6 Reading and Viewing Literacy
VCELY257
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
In English Level 3 Reading and Viewing Literacy
VCELY288
Use comprehension strategies to build literal and inferred meaning to expand content knowledge, integrating and linking ideas and analysing and evaluating texts
In English Level 4 Reading and Viewing Literacy
VCELY319
Use comprehension strategies to analyse information, integrating and linking ideas from a variety of print and digital sources
In English Level 5 Reading and Viewing Literacy

Australian Curriculum alignment

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 featuresElaborationsmaking connections between the text and students own experie...
In English Year 3 Literacy Interpreting, analysing, evaluating
ACELY1692
Use comprehension strategies to build literal and inferred meaning to expand content knowledge, integrating and linking ideas and analysing and evaluating textsElaborationsmaking connections between the text and studentsâ own experience and oth...
In English Year 4 Literacy Interpreting, analysing, evaluating
ACELY1703
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...
In English Year 5 Literacy Interpreting, analysing, evaluating
ACELY1713
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...
In English Year 6 Literacy Interpreting, analysing, evaluating

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Corrected repeated text on 'Pass the Paper' task card.
Fix by Stephanie (Teach Starter) Jan 14th, 2018

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