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Reading Response Journal – Comprehension Templates
A journal with comprehension sheets designed for students to study texts.
This teaching resource is a journal designed to be compiled as a booklet of comprehension worksheets. These templates can cater for most text types
Comprehension templates include
- predicting and inferring
- questioning
- visualising
- double entry
- making connections
- summarising
- retelling important events
- personal review
- character report
This journal can be used for specific learning focuses from guided reading, or as a book study.
Australian Curriculum alignment
- ACELY1796
Use interaction skills, for example paraphrasing, questioning and interpreting non-verbal cues and choose vocabulary and vocal effects appropriate for different audiences and purposesElaborationsparticipating in pair, group, class and school speaking...
- 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 studentsâ own experience and oth...
- 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...
- 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...

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