Use comprehension strategies to analyse information, integrating and linking ideas from a variety of print and digital sources
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Enhance students' summarising skills with our comprehensive unit plan. Includes posters, a student reference card, worksheets, a quiz, and a...
This comprehensive unit plan teaches students skimming and scanning techniques, using subject and technical vocabulary to navigate unfamilia...
Enhance students' questioning skills with our comprehensive unit plan, featuring posters, a student reference card, worksheets, a quiz, and...
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 supports Year 5 students in using the comprehension strategy, making connections, to build literal and inferred...
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 is a great resource for teachers to use when introducing the reading strategy of making inferences. The presentation is pr...
This visually engaging presentation teaches students how to navigate and read texts for specific purposes. It covers skimming, scanning, and...
This visually engaging presentation guides students on the importance of questioning before, during, and after reading. It explores the Ques...
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 helps upper primary students develop comprehension skills by making deep connections (text-to-self, text-to-text, and text-to-...
This resource introduces monitoring comprehension through interactive strategies, including visual analysis, group activities, and anchor ch...
Each activity is individually numbered and linked to Howard Gardner's 8 Multiple Intelligences. They are suited to ANY STORY and ALL YEAR LE...
These story prompt dice are designed to provide quick and easy prompts for students who struggle to find the right idea when writing narrati...
The 'Super 6 Comprehension Strategies' classroom display includes the following strategies: Predict Make Connections Visualise Questio...
The 'Easter Cloze Activity - Middle & Upper Primary' activity is suitable for Year 3 -6 students. It tells the Easter Story in simple, easy...
Students will understand how to use literal, evaluative and inferential comprehension skills to understand what they are reading.
Students will use technology to research the questions provided on their given card.
This set of 'Animal Reading Strategy Charts' was designed to help students identify the correct comprehension strategies to use to build lit...
When summarising a narrative (or story), follow these simple steps to ensure you have an accurate and appropriately detailed summary.
The 'Close Readers Poster' poster is designed to inform students about the habits of successful readers.
Students will roll dice to select comprehension questions to answer on various fiction or non-fiction texts they have read.
Students will roll dice to select comprehension questions to answer on various fiction or non-fiction texts they have read.
This worksheet is a combination of a science lesson and a reading comprehension activity. Students read a short description of how animals u...
This worksheet is designed to get students to contrast and compare books they’ve read with their filmed counterparts. Students not only revi...
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...
Spend the 12 days of Christmas encouraging creative, playful and immersive learning with your students. This variety of activities ranges fr...
This research resource provides students with a series of questions to guide them during their research of John Simpson Kirkpatrick. Student...
This poster was designed to provide students with an explanation of what it means to infer meaning when reading and how to make inferences....
These student reference cards are designed two to a page and can be glued into student’s books as a reference. They provide students with an...
This worksheet has been designed to assist students to make accurate inferences when reading texts. The worksheet provides sentence starters...
This useful worksheet has been designed to assist students to make accurate inferences when reading texts. The two page worksheet, contains...
This worksheet has been designed to assist students to make accurate inferences when reading texts. The two page worksheet includes two fict...
This worksheet has been designed to assist students to make accurate inferences when reading texts. The two page worksheet includes two non-...
These useful task cards have been designed to support students to make inferences using visual texts. The questions are prompts, to assist s...
This worksheet has been designed as an assessment tool at the completion of the Making Inferences Unit. The assessment includes a visual fo...
This resource can be used to show recognition to students who have been learning to make inferences and become reading ‘detectives’. These c...
Enhance reading comprehension with these versatile question cards, suitable for any book. With 24 thought-provoking questions, students enga...
This set of Reciprocal Reading Cards provides a valuable student reference for the Reciprocal Reading Roles, including Director, Predictor,...
This set of Reciprocal Reading Charts creates a great display to work through before starting the Reciprocal Reading group process. The set...
Equip your students with this handy reference card on summarising. Print and paste it into their English books to provide a quick and easy t...
This set of graphic organisers supports the comprehension reading strategy of summarising. It includes various organisers to help students r...
This worksheet helps students learn about key words and their role in summarising. Using a text about whale sharks, students identify key wo...
This set of worksheets provides a structured, engaging way for students to practice note-taking and summarising, focusing on the causes of t...
This set of worksheets will help you guide your students in summarising nonfiction texts. Each worksheet provides a text and prompts student...
This series of worksheets helps students read a text about weathering and erosion, use graphic organisers to identify key features and summa...
These spinners are the perfect addition to the Summarising comprehension unit as they allow students to verbally discuss and summarise the k...
Enhance students' summarising skills with this engaging literacy activity, perfect for literacy rotations, fast finishers, or extensions. Af...
Assess students' summarising skills with this comprehensive 10-question quiz. Explore the purpose and essential skills of summarising, concl...
This two-page assessment evaluates students' summarising skills as a comprehension strategy, focusing on identifying key words and main idea...
This 5-point assessment rubric supports the unit of work on summarising. It aligns with activities, worksheets, and assessments in the unit,...
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 series of posters outlines the Question-Answer Relationship (QAR) and clearly explains the four question types. Perfect for classroom d...
Equip your students with this handy reference card on questioning. Print and paste it into their English books to provide a quick and easy t...
These graphic organisers support the reading comprehension strategy of questioning, guiding students to ask questions before, during, and af...
This worksheet helps students use the Question Answer Response model to develop a deeper understanding of fictional texts, encouraging them...
These worksheets guide students through reading a nonfiction text about cyclones and creating and answering thick (inferential) and thin (li...
This educational worksheet on cyclones offers comprehensive reading material perfect for literacy groups or rotations. Designed to deepen un...
This worksheet helps students classify questions based on the QAR model and apply strategies to find answers. It reinforces comprehension sk...
This worksheet introduces the Put the Question in the Answer (PQA) strategy, helping students respond to questions with detailed and descrip...
This International Space Station (ISS) worksheet is ideal for reading groups or literacy rotations. It includes engaging questions designed...
This engaging activity is perfect for literacy rotations, fast finishers, or as an extension. Students use a paper clip and pencil to spin u...
This engaging activity is perfect for literacy rotations, fast finishers, or as an extension task. Students use a dice to roll a question st...
Assess students' questioning skills with this 10-question quiz. Ideal for whole-class warm-ups, reviews, or formative assessments, it evalua...
This assessment helps students demonstrate their understanding of a text by answering a variety of question types. It gauges comprehension f...
This 5-point assessment rubric uses comprehension strategies to build literal and inferred meaning to evaluate information and ideas. Studen...
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...
This resource card supports students in making connections while reading. It outlines three types of connections—Text-to-Self, Text-to-Text,...
Use this comprehensive set of graphic organisers to enhance reading comprehension by helping students make connections. Includes Connection...
This resource helps middle and upper primary students deepen their reading comprehension by making meaningful connections with texts. It inc...
This resource explores Bennelong's role as a cultural mediator between First Nations Australians and early English settlers. It includes a n...
Engage middle primary students with this interactive reading comprehension activity. Featuring a poem, scaffolded questions, and a graphic o...
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 quiz for middle primary students assesses comprehension skills using connection strategies (text-to-self, text-to-text, text-to-world)....
This assessment features a fictional narrative about a family during a cyclone. Students apply comprehension strategies to make connections...
This 5-point rubric evaluates students’ ability to make connections (self, texts, world) and build literal and inferred meaning. It offers c...
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 interactive Reading Comprehension Dice & Template Pack is designed to guide students through Before, During, and After Reading strategi...
A set of differentiated worksheets introducing argument, persuasion and authority, using examples from Yahoo Creek and well-known figures. S...
A set of differentiated worksheets to help students learn about ethos, pathos and logos- three powerful persuasive techniques. Students expl...
A set of differentiated worksheets exploring whose stories are heard in history, using real excerpts from Yahoo Creek: An Australian Mystery...
A set of differentiated worksheets supporting students to distinguish between fact, opinion and bias in historical sources about the Hairy M...
This worksheet introduces students to the structure of persuasive writing using the Hamburger model. Students read examples of a strong and...
This worksheet introduces students to the PEEL structure for persuasive writing. Students read and label the parts of a strong persuasive pa...
This worksheet guides students to plan a simple persuasive paragraph about the Hairy Man using the Hamburger model. Students choose their op...
This worksheet helps students plan a persuasive paragraph about the Hairy Man using the PEEL structure. Students choose their viewpoint, com...
This worksheet introduces students to using quotes as evidence in persuasive writing. Students read simple excerpts from Yahoo Creek: An Aus...
This worksheet helps students evaluate the credibility of sources and use evidence effectively in persuasive writing. Using quotes from Yaho...
These worksheets guide students in analysing historical sources from Yahoo Creek: An Australian Mystery by Tohby Riddle. Year 3–4 students i...
This set of debate prompt cards helps students develop persuasive speaking and critical thinking skills. Each card presents a topic related...
This set of discussion prompts supports students to explore ideas about evidence, belief and historical perspectives. The prompts encourage...
The Leila and the Blue Fox & Migrants unit title page introduces students to the theme of visual storytelling through rich imagery, symbolis...
The Teaching Notes page supports the implementation of the Leila and the Blue Fox & Migrants Imagery and Symbolism Unit for Years 3-6. It ou...
The Migrant Messages toolkit equips students in Years 3-6 to analyse how the short film Migrants uses visual symbolism to convey emotion, mo...
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