VC2E5LY09
use comprehension strategies, such as visualising, predicting, connecting, summarising, monitoring and questioning, to evaluate information and ideas to build literal and inferred meanings
- summarising ideas and information to determine the main idea of a text
- using research skills, including identifying research purpose; locating texts; gathering and organising information; evaluating relative value; evaluating the accuracy and currency of print and digital sources; and summarising information from several sources
- comparing texts on the same topic to identify similarities and differences in the ideas or information included
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The Aether – Worksheet
A comprehension worksheet for a narrative from the Year 5 magazine (Issue 3).
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Making Connections Grid
A worksheet for students to practise making connections with a piece of text.
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10 Fascinating Facts Worksheet – The Global Seed Vault
A comprehension worksheet for a magazine article about the global seed vault.
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Welcome to America! – Worksheet
A comprehension worksheet for a country profile from the Year 5 magazine (Issue 2).
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Comic – Peer Politics: In Sync – Comprehension Worksheet
A comprehension worksheet for a comic about encouraging people and their passions regardless of their gender.
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Letter to the Editor (Huckle Finn Park Disgrace) – Worksheet
A comprehension worksheet for a letter to the editor from the Year 6 magazine (Issue 2).
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Human Histories: Amazing Achievements - Read and Respond Worksheet
A comprehension activity related to a biographical text.
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Finding Word Meaning In Context - Word Meaning Cards
A teaching resource to help teach your students how to find word meaning in context.
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Finding Word Meaning In Context - Word Detective Worksheet
A teaching resource to help teach your students how to find word meaning in context.
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Recalling Facts - Letter to the Editor Activity
A worksheet to use when teaching students how to recall facts and details when reading.
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Recalling Facts - Newspaper Worksheet
A worksheet to use when teaching students how to recall facts and details when reading.
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Comprehension Task Cards - Compare And Contrast
A set of comprehension task cards to help students compare and contrast when reading.
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Comprehension - King Tutankhamun
A comprehension activity about King Tutankhamun.
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Comprehension Task Cards - Distinguishing Between Real And Make-Believe
A set of comprehension task cards to help students distinguish between real and make-believe when reading.
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Comprehension - MP3 Players and Your Hearing
A comprehension activity about "MP3 Players and Your Hearing".
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Comprehension Chatterbox
A fun reading comprehension strategy activity for students to use after reading a text.
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Compare and Contrast - Comprehension Task
A task to use when teaching your students reading comprehension strategies.
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Viewing Response Template
A useful template to encourage students to make careful observations and interpretations while viewing visual prompts.
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Comprehension Strategy Teaching Resource Pack - Distinguishing Between Fact and Opinion
A comprehensive resource pack to help students learn to distinguish between fact and opinion.
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Comprehension Strategy Teaching Resource Pack - Summarising
An extensive resource pack to help students understand the concept of summarising.
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Comprehension Strategy Teaching Resource Pack - Distinguishing Between Real and Make-Believe
A comprehensive resource pack to help students distinguish between real and make-believe.
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Comprehension Strategy Teaching Resource Pack - Compare and Contrast
An extensive resource pack helping students compare and contrast information.
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Comprehension Strategy Teaching Resource Pack - Recognising Cause and Effect
A comprehensive resource pack helping students to recognise cause and effect.
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Comprehension Strategy Teaching Resource Pack - Understanding Sequence
A comprehensive resource pack to help students understand the concept of sequencing.
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Comprehension Strategy Teaching Resource Pack - Recalling Facts and Details
A comprehensive resource pack helping students learn how to recall facts and details.
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Applying Reading Comprehension Strategies Unit Plan
This English unit is designed to explicitly teach the reading comprehension strategies of activating prior knowledge, making connections, questioning, monitoring, predicting, inferring, visualising and summarising to upper primary students, with a focus on literary texts.
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Predicting
A 60 minute lesson in which students will learn and apply the reading comprehension strategy of predicting.
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Questioning
A 60 minute lesson in which students will learn and apply the reading comprehension strategy of questioning.
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Research Skills - Note Taking
A 60 minute lesson in which students will take appropriate notes from an informative text.
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Activating Prior Knowledge
A 60 minute lesson in which students will learn and apply the reading comprehension strategy of activating prior knowledge.
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Making Connections
A 60 minute lesson in which students will learn and apply the reading comprehension strategy of making connections.
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Summarising
A 60 minute lesson in which students will learn and apply the reading comprehension strategy of summarising.