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Comprehension – Stop Polluting The Ocean
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
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
- 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
- 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 features
- ACELY1692
Use comprehension strategies to build literal and inferred meaning to expand content knowledge, integrating and linking ideas and analysing and evaluating texts
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