ACELY1702

Navigate and read texts for specific purposes applying appropriate text processing strategies, for example predicting and confirming, monitoring meaning, skimming and scanning

Elaborations

• bringing subject and technical vocabulary and concept knowledge to new reading tasks (Skills: Literacy, Critical and Creative Thinking)
• selecting and using texts for their pertinence to the task and the accuracy of their information (Skills: Literacy, Critical and Creative Thinking)
• using word identification, self-monitoring and self-correcting strategies to access material on less familiar topics, skimming and scanning to check the pertinence of particular information to students’ topic and task (Skills: Literacy, Critical and Creative Thinking, Personal and Social Capability)
• reading a wide range of imaginative, informative and persuasive texts for pleasure and to find and use information (Skills: Literacy, Critical and Creative Thinking)

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