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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
Elaborations
- using elements in books and screen texts, for example illustrations, diagrams, sound and movement, to support reading (Skills: Literacy, Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Capability, Critical and Creative Thinking)
- making connections between the text and students' own experiences, and between information in print and images (Skills: Literacy, Critical and Creative Thinking, Personal and Social Capability)
- finding key information in a text (Skills: Literacy, Critical and Creative Thinking)
- making inferences about characters' feelings and motives (Skills: Literacy, Critical and Creative Thinking)
- building knowledge about the topic of the text and learning new vocabulary before and during reading (Skills: Literacy, Critical and Creative Thinking)
- making predictions from the cover, from illustrations and at points in the text before reading on (Skills: Literacy, Critical and Creative Thinking)
- retelling the events or key information in the text orally, in writing and/or through digital or arts media (Skills: Literacy, Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Capability, Critical and Creative Thinking)
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The Gingerbread Man Story Sequencing Cards
Teach your students about retelling with this set of printable gingerbread man story sequencing cards.
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Making Inferences With Pictures Worksheet
Guide your students to use pictures to make inferences with this reading worksheet.
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Three Little Pigs Retelling Activity Cards
Teach your students about retelling with this set of sequencing cards for The Three Little Pigs.
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Year 1 Magazine – What’s Buzzing? (Issue 2)
A beautifully designed, 22-page reading magazine specifically designed for Year 1 students.
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Finding the Main Idea - Graphic Organiser Templates
A worksheet to use when teaching students how to find the main idea of a text.
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Bake Off! - Decodable Reader (Level 5)
Develop confident, successful readers with this phonics-based, printable decodable book.
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Close Mates - Decodable Reader (Level 5)
Develop confident, successful readers with this phonics-based, printable decodable book.
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Robot Hide and Seek - Decodable Reader (Level 5)
Develop confident, successful readers with this phonics-based, printable decodable book.
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Eliza's Ride - Decodable Reader (Level 5)
Develop confident, successful readers with this phonics-based, printable decodable book.
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Level 4 Decodable Readers - Worksheet Pack
A set of one-pager worksheet versions of the texts from our Level 4 decodable readers.
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The Pink Dump Truck - Decodable Reader (Level 2)
Develop confident, successful readers with this phonics-based, printable decodable book.
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The Tap - Decodable Reader (Level 2)
Develop confident, successful readers with this phonics-based, printable decodable book.
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Fascinating Facts About Animals Worksheet
Build reading comprehension skills and learn about amazing animals with a printable year 1 reading comprehension worksheet pack.
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Decodable Text Worksheets – Single Graphemes (Set 2)
A set of 10 decodable text worksheets for early readers.
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Welcome to Scotland! – Worksheet
A comprehension worksheet for a country profile from the Year 1 magazine (Issue 2).
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Welcome to France! – Worksheet
A comprehension worksheet for a country profile from the Year 2 magazine (Issue 2).
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Search-a-Rooney 2 – Comprehension Worksheet
A comprehension worksheet for a image stimulus poster where students need to locate objects and characters.
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Art Attack! Shape – Worksheet
A comprehension worksheet for a magazine article from the Year 2 magazine (Issue 3).
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Wolfie: A Tell-all Interview – Worksheet
A comprehension worksheet for a narrative from the Year 2 magazine (Issue 3).
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The Birthday Ride – Worksheet
A comprehension worksheet for a narrative from the Year 1 magazine (Issue 3).
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Team Trials: Success Celebrators – Comprehension Worksheet
A comprehension worksheet for a comic about the importance of good sportsmanship and celebrating the success of others.
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Decodable Text Worksheets - Single Graphemes (Set 1)
A set of 10 decodable text worksheets for early readers.
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What Toy Am I? - Toy Definition Match Up Game
A set of 20 puzzle cards for students to match pictures of toys to their definition.
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Author's Purpose - Sentence Writing Game
A teaching resource to help teach your students the different reasons authors may write.
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Reading Detectives Name Tags
8 colourful reading detective name tags to assign students during guided reading sessions.
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Reading Detectives Posters and Banner
8 colourful reading detective posters and a banner to display in the classroom.
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Little Red Riding Hood – Comprehension Worksheet
Develop your students' reading comprehension skills with a well-known fairy tale.
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The Gingerbread Man - Comprehension Worksheet
Develop your students' reading comprehension skills with a well-known fairy tale.
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Year 1 Magazine - "What's Buzzing?" (Issue 2) Task Cards
A set of five literacy rotation task cards to be used in conjunction with Issue 2 of Teach Starter’s Year 1 magazine.
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Author’s Purpose Pie Worksheet Set
Practise Author’s Purpose knowledge with this set of Author’s Purpose Worksheets.
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Authors Purpose Craft Bundle
Explore Author's Purpose with this fun and engaging set of Author's Purpose craft templates.
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Story Prediction Worksheets for Early Years
Explore the comprehension strategy of prediction using these Story Prediction Worksheets created specifically for the early years classroom.