A comprehension worksheet for a poem from the Year 2 magazine (Issue 2).
This teaching resource is a comprehension worksheet for the magazine article ‘The Waterfall’ from the Year 2 magazine, ‘What’s Buzzing?’ (Issue 2).
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The Waterfall – Worksheet
Updated: 25 Aug 2020
A comprehension worksheet for a poem from the Year 2 magazine (Issue 2).
Non-Editable: PDF
Pages: 2 Pages
Years: 1 - 2
Curriculum
VC2E1LE04
Listen to, recite and discuss poems, chants, rhymes and songs, and imitate and invent sound patterns including alliteration and rhyme <ul> <li>listening to performance poetry, chants or songs from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples</li> <li>exploring poetry, chants and songs from Asian cultures</li> <li>listening to haiku poems about familiar topics such as nature and the seasons</li> </ul>
VC2E1LY12
Use comprehension strategies, such as visualising, predicting, connecting, summarising and questioning, and draw on learnt vocabulary and growing knowledge of context and text structures to build literal and inferred meanings <ul> <li>identifying information and details from spoken informative texts</li> <li>building topic knowledge and learning new vocabulary before and during reading</li> <li>making predictions from the cover, from illustrations and at points in the text before reading on, and confirming and adjusting understanding after reading</li> <li>drawing inferences and explaining inferences using clues from the text</li> <li>making connections with existing knowledge and personal experiences</li> </ul>
VC2E2LE04
Identify, reproduce and experiment with rhythmic sound and word patterns in poems, chants, rhymes and songs <ul> <li>exploring poems, chants, rhymes or songs from different home languages of class members</li> </ul>
VC2E2LY10
Use comprehension strategies, such as visualising, predicting, connecting, summarising, monitoring and questioning, and begin to analyse texts by drawing on a growing knowledge of context and text structures to build literal and inferred meanings <ul> <li>listening for specific information and providing key facts or points from an informative or persuasive text</li> <li>listening and responding to detailed instructions</li> <li>integrating information from print, images and prior knowledge to make supportable inferences</li> <li>identifying the main idea of a text • predicting vocabulary that is likely to be in a text, based on the topic and the purpose of the text; for example, predicting that ‘station’ and ‘arrive’ would be in a text recounting a train journey</li> <li>using prior knowledge to make and confirm predictions when reading a text</li> <li>using graphic organisers to represent the connections between characters, order of events or sequence of information</li> </ul>
EN1-OLC-01
Communicates effectively by using interpersonal conventions and language to extend and elaborate ideas for social and learning interactions
EN1-RECOM-01
Comprehends independently read texts that require sustained reading by activating background and word knowledge, connecting and understanding sentences and whole text, and monitoring for meaning
EN1-UARL-01
Understands and responds to literature by creating texts using similar structures, intentional language choices and features appropriate to audience and purpose
ACELT1585
Listen to, recite and perform poems, chants, rhymes and songs, imitating and inventing sound patterns including alliteration and rhymeElaborationsexploring performance poetry, chants and songs from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and As...
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 featuresElaborationsusing ...
ACELT1592
Identify, reproduce and experiment with rhythmic, sound and word patterns in poems, chants, rhymes and songsElaborationsexploring poems, chants, rhymes or songs from different cultures which class members may bring from home (Skills: Literacy, Numera...
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 ...
AC9E1LE04
Listen to and discuss poems, chants, rhymes and songs, and imitate and invent sound patterns including alliteration and rhyme
AC9E1LY05
Use comprehension strategies such as visualising, predicting, connecting, summarising and questioning when listening, viewing and reading to build literal and inferred meaning by drawing on vocabulary and growing knowledge of context and text structures
AC9E2LE04
Identify, reproduce and experiment with rhythmic sound and word patterns in poems, chants, rhymes or songs
AC9E2LY05
Use comprehension strategies such as visualising, predicting, connecting, summarising, monitoring and questioning to build literal and inferred meaning
Curriculum
VC2E1LE04
Listen to, recite and discuss poems, chants, rhymes and songs, and imitate and invent sound patterns including alliteration and rhyme <ul> <li>listening to performance poetry, chants or songs from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples</li> <li>exploring poetry, chants and songs from Asian cultures</li> <li>listening to haiku poems about familiar topics such as nature and the seasons</li> </ul>
VC2E1LY12
Use comprehension strategies, such as visualising, predicting, connecting, summarising and questioning, and draw on learnt vocabulary and growing knowledge of context and text structures to build literal and inferred meanings <ul> <li>identifying information and details from spoken informative texts</li> <li>building topic knowledge and learning new vocabulary before and during reading</li> <li>making predictions from the cover, from illustrations and at points in the text before reading on, and confirming and adjusting understanding after reading</li> <li>drawing inferences and explaining inferences using clues from the text</li> <li>making connections with existing knowledge and personal experiences</li> </ul>
VC2E2LE04
Identify, reproduce and experiment with rhythmic sound and word patterns in poems, chants, rhymes and songs <ul> <li>exploring poems, chants, rhymes or songs from different home languages of class members</li> </ul>
VC2E2LY10
Use comprehension strategies, such as visualising, predicting, connecting, summarising, monitoring and questioning, and begin to analyse texts by drawing on a growing knowledge of context and text structures to build literal and inferred meanings <ul> <li>listening for specific information and providing key facts or points from an informative or persuasive text</li> <li>listening and responding to detailed instructions</li> <li>integrating information from print, images and prior knowledge to make supportable inferences</li> <li>identifying the main idea of a text • predicting vocabulary that is likely to be in a text, based on the topic and the purpose of the text; for example, predicting that ‘station’ and ‘arrive’ would be in a text recounting a train journey</li> <li>using prior knowledge to make and confirm predictions when reading a text</li> <li>using graphic organisers to represent the connections between characters, order of events or sequence of information</li> </ul>
EN1-OLC-01
Communicates effectively by using interpersonal conventions and language to extend and elaborate ideas for social and learning interactions
EN1-RECOM-01
Comprehends independently read texts that require sustained reading by activating background and word knowledge, connecting and understanding sentences and whole text, and monitoring for meaning
EN1-UARL-01
Understands and responds to literature by creating texts using similar structures, intentional language choices and features appropriate to audience and purpose
ACELT1585
Listen to, recite and perform poems, chants, rhymes and songs, imitating and inventing sound patterns including alliteration and rhymeElaborationsexploring performance poetry, chants and songs from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and As...
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 featuresElaborationsusing ...
ACELT1592
Identify, reproduce and experiment with rhythmic, sound and word patterns in poems, chants, rhymes and songsElaborationsexploring poems, chants, rhymes or songs from different cultures which class members may bring from home (Skills: Literacy, Numera...
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 ...
AC9E1LE04
Listen to and discuss poems, chants, rhymes and songs, and imitate and invent sound patterns including alliteration and rhyme
AC9E1LY05
Use comprehension strategies such as visualising, predicting, connecting, summarising and questioning when listening, viewing and reading to build literal and inferred meaning by drawing on vocabulary and growing knowledge of context and text structures
AC9E2LE04
Identify, reproduce and experiment with rhythmic sound and word patterns in poems, chants, rhymes or songs
AC9E2LY05
Use comprehension strategies such as visualising, predicting, connecting, summarising, monitoring and questioning to build literal and inferred meaning
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