Teaching Resource
Reading Detectives Bookmarks
8 colourful reading detective bookmarks to use during guided reading sessions in the classroom.
Engage students during guided reading groups with this set of reading detective bookmarks. Students will be able to use their reading detective bookmark as a comprehension checklist during reading activities.
Assign each student with one of the following reading detective roles:
- predictor
- clarifier
- questioner
- summariser
- visualiser
- connector
- word finder
- chief detective.
This resource includes:
- 8 reading detective bookmarks.
Use this resource with the Reading Detective Posters.
Check out our blog for hints and tips on how to set up guided reading in the classroom.
NSW Curriculum alignment
- ENe-1A
Communicates with peers and known adults in informal and guided activities demonstrating emerging skills of group interaction
- ENe-4A
Demonstrates developing skills and strategies to read, view and comprehend short, predictable texts on familiar topics in different media and technologies
- EN1-10C
Thinks imaginatively and creatively about familiar topics, ideas and texts when responding to and composing texts
- 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
- VCELY347
Use comprehension strategies to interpret and analyse information and ideas, comparing content from a variety of textual sources including media and digital texts
- VCELY153
Use comprehension strategies to understand and discuss texts listened to, viewed or read independently
- 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
- VCELY319
Use comprehension strategies to analyse information, integrating and linking ideas from a variety of print and digital sources
Australian Curriculum alignment
- ACELY1650
Use comprehension strategies to understand and discuss texts listened to, viewed or read independently
- ACELY1660
Use comprehension strategies to build literal and inferred meaning about key events, ideas and information in texts that they listen to, view and read by drawing on growing knowledge of context, text structures and language features
- 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 structures Elaborations making connections be...
- 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
- ACELY1703
Use comprehension strategies to analyse information, integrating and linking ideas from a variety of print and digital sources
- ACELY1713
Use comprehension strategies to interpret and analyse information and ideas, comparing content from a variety of textual sources including media and digital texts
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Typo fixed - changed familar to familiar on Detective Connector bookmark.
Fix by Holly (Teach Starter) Mar 12th, 2017
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