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Applying Reading Comprehension Strategies Worksheets
A collection of worksheets which enable students to practise applying reading comprehension strategies.
This collection of worksheets contains:
- A literary text, “The Midnight Thunderstorm”
- A factual text, “All about Thunderstorms”
- Activities for each text which require students to apply a variety of reading comprehension strategies (making connections, predicting, monitoring, clarifying, visualising, inferring, questioning and summarising)
These worksheets can be used in conjunction with the Reading Comprehension Strategies Poster Pack.
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NSW Curriculum alignment
- EN1-11D
Responds to and composes a range of texts about familiar aspects of the world and their own experiences
- EN2-11D
Responds to and composes a range of texts that express viewpoints of the world similar to and different from their own
- 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
Victorian Curriculum alignment
- VCELY318
Navigate and read imaginative, informative and persuasive texts by interpreting structural features, including tables of content, glossaries, chapters, headings and subheadings and applying appropriate text processing strategies, including monitoring...
- VCELY222
Use comprehension strategies to build literal and inferred meaning and begin to analyse texts by drawing on growing knowledge of context, language and visual features and print and multimodal text structures
- 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
- VCELY288
Use comprehension strategies to build literal and inferred meaning to expand content knowledge, integrating and linking ideas and analysing and evaluating texts
Australian Curriculum alignment
- ACELY1702
Navigate and read texts for specific purposes applying appropriate text processing strategies, for example predicting and confirming, monitoring meaning, skimming and scanningElaborationsbringing subject and technical vocabulary and concept knowledge...
- ACELY1670
Use comprehension strategies to build literal and inferred meaning and begin to analyse texts by drawing on growing knowledge of context, language and visual features and print and multimodal text structuresElaborationsmaking connections between the ...
- 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...
- 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 studentsรขยย own experience and oth...

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this link downloads the narrative for me…
Mark Elkins ยท May 16th, 2017
sorry, disregard that.
Mark Elkins ยท May 16th, 2017