Navigate and read texts for specific purposes, monitoring meaning using strategies such as skimming, scanning and confirming
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This Rowan of Rin book unit was created around our Upper Primary Hero’s Journey resources, designed to help you with fantasy and Sci-fi book...
This comprehensive unit plan teaches students skimming and scanning techniques, using subject and technical vocabulary to navigate unfamilia...
This unit is designed to help Year 5 students develop comprehension, through the skill of visualising. Students will create mental images, o...
This comprehensive unit plan for Year 5 focuses on teaching comprehension strategies, including predicting, to build literal and inferred me...
This comprehensive unit plan for Year 5 focuses on teaching comprehension strategies, including monitoring, to build literal and inferred me...
This presentation is a handy resource to work through with your class during the study and exploration of persuasive texts. The presentation...
This Presentation introduces your students to the structure of the hero’s story, in a simplified version of Joseph Campbell’s monomyth. You...
This Rowan of Rin presentation was created with summaries, questions and activities for every chapter. It was designed to be a part of our...
This visually engaging presentation teaches students how to navigate and read texts for specific purposes. It covers skimming, scanning, and...
This presentation resource introduces Year 5 students to the concept of visualising in reading comprehension. It includes engaging slides wi...
This resource introduces predicting as a reading strategy for upper primary. It includes clear explanations, fiction and non-fiction example...
This resource introduces monitoring comprehension through interactive strategies, including visual analysis, group activities, and anchor ch...
Reciprocal Reading Cards are a fantastic prompt for students as they work their way through this highly valuable process. Using the cards, e...
This set of Reciprocal Reading Charts creates a great to display to work through prior to beginning the Reciprocal Reading group process. Pr...
This flowchart clearly explains the Reciprocal Reading Process. Provide each reading group with a copy of this chart and they will always kn...
This worksheet is a combination of a science lesson and a reading comprehension activity. Students read a short description of how animals u...
Students cut and rearrange examples of persuasive texts to help cement their understanding of the structure of persuasive texts.
This item was created as part of a larger unit on persuasive texts for a year 5 level, but represents only a small fraction of the resources...
Encourage and incentivise student reading with these colourful Reading Milestone Certificates. To support classroom or homework reading p...
This workbook introduces students to the “hero’s journey” structure of narrative storytelling in a simplified version of Joseph Campbell’s m...
This Rowan of Rin title page is a great way to kick off the unit with a bit of fun. It was designed to be a part of our Rowan of Rin book...
In this worksheet, students try and recreate Rowan’s magic map based on what they remember from the story. It was designed to be a part of...
In this worksheet, students plot the excitement level of the various chapters of the book, revealing how the author has to make choices abou...
In this worksheet, students design a new dust jacket for a new edition of the book they are studying in class. They illustrate a favourite s...
In this worksheet, students write descriptions of a handful of characters from the novel they are reading and then swap them with a friend....
In this worksheet, students create a character profile for one of the secondary characters in the story Rowan of Rin, using evidence from th...
This crossword puzzle is the perfect fast finishers activity for your Rowan of Rin book study. It was designed to be a part of our Rowan of...
This Word Search is the perfect fast finishers activity for your Rowan of Rin book study. It was designed to be a part of our Rowan of Rin...
A set of vibrant posters designed to support Year 5 students in monitoring comprehension. Includes skimming, scanning, and clarifying techni...
Equip your students with this handy reference card, ideal for guiding them through navigating and reading texts for specific purposes. Featu...
This newsletter, designed to complement ‘Introduction to Skimming’ and ‘Introduction to Scanning’, provides a familiar resource for students...
This worksheet introduces your students to the fast-reading technique of skimming. It explains skimming, provides clear steps, and offers pr...
This resource offers students a fun and interactive way to practise skimming techniques using scavenger hunts across various texts, includin...
This worksheet introduces students to the scanning technique, explaining its purpose and how to apply it. Paired with the ‘Teach This Newsle...
This worksheet allows students to practise their scanning skills by finding key information about popular singers, including Ed Sheeran, Emi...
This engaging reading resource introduces students to solids, liquids, and gases, highlighting their observable properties and the arrangeme...
This worksheet, alongside the States of Matter Stimulus Sheet, challenges students to apply skimming, scanning, and confirming meaning strat...
This 10-question quiz helps students navigate and read texts for specific purposes, using skimming, scanning, and confirming strategies. Ide...
This assessment evaluates students' ability to navigate and read texts for specific purposes, using skimming, scanning, and confirming meani...
This 5-point assessment rubric evaluates students' abilities to navigate and read texts for specific purposes, employing strategies such as...
This resource provides a concise student reference card on visualising, designed for Year 5 students. It explains the concept, highlights it...
This resource provides teachers with a set of graphic organisers designed to support visualising as a reading comprehension strategy. Activi...
This resource introduces visualising as a comprehension strategy, guiding students to create mental images using their senses. It includes a...
This resource features discussion questions and answers based on a descriptive passage about a vase and flowers. It encourages students to e...
These fun and engaging activities encourage students to listen carefully and visualise as they draw a mystery creature based on descriptive...
This worksheet helps students practise making inferences based on visualisation. It includes three short passages where students use context...
These differentiated worksheets help students visualise and transform non-fiction texts into diagrams. It includes three versions: the water...
Our ‘Visualise & Draw Relay’ is designed to help students build literal meaning through visualisation. It includes instructions for team-bas...
Use the ‘Don’t Say It!’ Visualising Card Game to engage students in practising visualising skills and reading comprehension. Players describ...
This resource contains a 10-question quiz designed for Year 5 students, focusing on using visualising to build literal and inferred meaning...
This assessment task encourages students to engage with the text actively through visualisation. By creating a mental image and reflecting o...
This rubric assesses students' ability to use comprehension strategies like visualising to build literal and inferred meaning and evaluate i...
This reference card introduces students to predicting strategies in reading. It includes a clear definition, steps for predicting before and...
This set of graphic organisers supports students in making predictions during reading. It includes tools like Prediction Pathways, Pause and...
This engaging worksheet encourages students to predict logical outcomes for short, everyday scenarios, fostering critical thinking and creat...
Students will read character profiles, which include key traits and past decisions, and predict how these characters might respond in variou...
This resource includes differentiated reading comprehension worksheets focusing on key historical figures and their impact on Australia's co...
Prediction Paths is an engaging board game that reinforces comprehension skills through interactive prediction exercises. Students move forw...
Engage students in practising prediction skills with ‘Prediction Pictures’. Use the picture cards for a class competition or as an independe...
This resource provides a quiz for middle primary students, combining a variety of questions types about the comprehension strategy of predic...
This assessment on predicting includes an anticipation guide, comprehension questions, and a reflection task. Students use text evidence and...
This assessment resource guides upper primary students in using prediction strategies to build literal and inferred meaning. It includes an...
Use this comprehensive set of graphic organisers to enhance reading comprehension by helping students make connections. Includes Connection...
This resource explores Bennelong's role as a cultural mediator between First Nations Australians and early English settlers. It includes a n...
Engage middle and upper primary students in making meaningful connections with this board game. Featuring 36 diverse text passages, a gamebo...
If you are looking for a fun, versatile resource to introduce making connections to your class, then this is the one for you. This resource...
This student reference card supports middle primary learners in monitoring and clarifying their reading comprehension. It outlines key strat...
This close reading annotation reference sheet provides simple symbols for students to use while reading, helping them to ‘ink their thinking...
This set of graphic organisers supports students in monitoring comprehension. Tools like 3-2-1 Check-In, Challenge and Conquer, SQ3R, and Th...
This worksheet helps upper primary students practise monitoring comprehension. Using a text on environmental issues, students identify chall...
This resource helps upper primary students develop comprehension monitoring skills by identifying and addressing reading difficulties. It in...
This resource offers differentiated reading texts that examine the economic, political, and social causes of British colonisation in Austral...
This interactive PowerPoint presentation guides students through the ‘Comprehension Detective’ game, where they work in teams to solve compr...
These worksheets provide a set of comprehension passages, both fictional and non-fictional, accompanied by questions that encourage the use...
This resource provides a 10-question quiz to assess students' understanding of comprehension strategies, focusing on monitoring. It includes...
This engaging assessment task uses short-answer questions, based on a text, to develop student ability to monitor comprehension by questioni...
This 5-point marking rubric assesses students’ ability to monitor comprehension and build literal and inferred meaning to evaluate informati...
This 32-card task card set helps students explore, analyse, and respond to non-fiction texts in a flexible and engaging way. Students practi...
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