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Comprehension - Stop Polluting The Ocean

PDF | 4 pages|Grades: 3 - 4

A comprehension activity using a persuasive text.

This comprehension task includes; text, matching questions and suggested answers.

“How would you feel if there were plastic bottles, chemicals, ripped fishing nets and other containers strewn all around your house? This is the state of many oceans around the world. It is vital that humans stop destroying our precious oceans with these careless acts of pollution.”

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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

Victorian Curriculum alignment

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

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

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