Use comprehension strategies to build literal and inferred meaning to expand content knowledge, integrating and linking ideas and analysing and evaluating texts
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Middle primary English unit using Judy Moody to explicitly teach mood, emotion and first person narrative voice. Includes teaching notes, pr...
This is a progressive unit plan to assist students to learn the comprehension strategy of making inferences. The unit begins with a presenta...
This presentation is a great resource for teachers to use when introducing the reading strategy of making inferences. The presentation is pr...
The Migrant Messages toolkit equips students in Years 3-6 to analyse how the short film Migrants uses visual symbolism to convey emotion, mo...
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 Leila and the Blue Fox & Migrants unit title page introduces students to the theme of visual storytelling through rich imagery, symbolis...
This set of discussion prompts supports students to explore ideas about evidence, belief and historical perspectives. The prompts encourage...
This set of debate prompt cards helps students develop persuasive speaking and critical thinking skills. Each card presents a topic related...
These worksheets guide students in analysing historical sources from Yahoo Creek: An Australian Mystery by Tohby Riddle. Year 3–4 students i...
This worksheet helps students evaluate the credibility of sources and use evidence effectively in persuasive writing. Using quotes from Yaho...
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 plan a persuasive paragraph about the Hairy Man using the PEEL structure. Students choose their viewpoint, com...
This worksheet guides students to plan a simple persuasive paragraph about the Hairy Man using the Hamburger model. Students choose their op...
This worksheet introduces students to the PEEL structure for persuasive writing. Students read and label the parts of a strong persuasive pa...
This worksheet introduces students to the structure of persuasive writing using the Hamburger model. Students read examples of a strong and...
A set of differentiated worksheets supporting students to distinguish between fact, opinion and bias in historical sources about the Hairy M...
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 to help students learn about ethos, pathos and logos- three powerful persuasive techniques. Students expl...
A set of differentiated worksheets introducing argument, persuasion and authority, using examples from Yahoo Creek and well-known figures. S...
This interactive Reading Comprehension Dice & Template Pack is designed to guide students through Before, During, and After Reading strategi...
These worksheets provide a set of comprehension passages, both fictional and non-fictional, accompanied by questions that encourage the use...
This interactive PowerPoint presentation guides students through the ‘Comprehension Detective’ game, where they work in teams to solve compr...
This resource helps upper primary students develop comprehension monitoring skills by identifying and addressing reading difficulties. It in...
This set of graphic organisers supports students in monitoring comprehension. Tools like 3-2-1 Check-In, Challenge and Conquer, SQ3R, and Th...
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...
Engage middle and upper primary students in making meaningful connections with this board game. Featuring 36 diverse text passages, a gamebo...
This resource explores Bennelong's role as a cultural mediator between First Nations Australians and early English settlers. It includes a n...
Use this comprehensive set of graphic organisers to enhance reading comprehension by helping students make connections. Includes Connection...
Engage students in practising prediction skills with ‘Prediction Pictures’. Use the picture cards for a class competition or as an independe...
Prediction Paths is an engaging board game that reinforces comprehension skills through interactive prediction exercises. Students move forw...
Students will read character profiles, which include key traits and past decisions, and predict how these characters might respond in variou...
This set of graphic organisers supports students in making predictions during reading. It includes tools like Prediction Pathways, Pause and...
Use the ‘Don’t Say It!’ Visualising Card Game to engage students in practising visualising skills and reading comprehension. Players describ...
Our ‘Visualise & Draw Relay’ is designed to help students build literal meaning through visualisation. It includes instructions for team-bas...
These differentiated worksheets help students visualise and transform non-fiction texts into diagrams. It includes three versions: the water...
This resource introduces visualising as a comprehension strategy, guiding students to create mental images using their senses. It includes a...
This engaging activity is perfect for literacy rotations, fast finishers, or as an extension task. Students use a dice to roll a question st...
This engaging activity is perfect for literacy rotations, fast finishers, or as an extension. Students use a paper clip and pencil to spin u...
These graphic organisers support the reading comprehension strategy of questioning, guiding students to ask questions before, during, and af...
This series of posters outlines the Question-Answer Relationship (QAR) and clearly explains the four question types. Perfect for classroom d...
This engaging reading resource introduces students to solids, liquids, and gases, highlighting their observable properties and the arrangeme...
This worksheet introduces your students to the fast-reading technique of skimming. It explains skimming, provides clear steps, and offers pr...
This newsletter, designed to complement ‘Introduction to Skimming’ and ‘Introduction to Scanning’, provides a familiar resource for students...
A set of vibrant posters designed to support Year 5 students in monitoring comprehension. Includes skimming, scanning, and clarifying techni...
Enhance students' summarising skills with this engaging literacy activity, perfect for literacy rotations, fast finishers, or extensions. Af...
This set of graphic organisers supports the comprehension reading strategy of summarising. It includes various organisers to help students r...
This set of Reciprocal Reading Charts creates a great display to work through before starting the Reciprocal Reading group process. The set...
This set of Reciprocal Reading Cards provides a valuable student reference for the Reciprocal Reading Roles, including Director, Predictor,...
Enhance reading comprehension with these versatile question cards, suitable for any book. With 24 thought-provoking questions, students enga...
This resource can be used to show recognition to students who have been learning to make inferences and become reading ‘detectives’. These c...
This worksheet has been designed as an assessment tool at the completion of the Making Inferences Unit. The assessment includes a visual fo...
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 to assist students to make accurate inferences when reading texts. The two page worksheet includes two non-...
This worksheet has been designed to assist students to make accurate inferences when reading texts. The two page worksheet includes two fict...
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 worksheet provides sentence starters...
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 poster was designed to provide students with an explanation of what it means to infer meaning when reading and how to make inferences....
This research resource provides students with a series of questions to guide them during their research of John Simpson Kirkpatrick. Student...
Spend the 12 days of Christmas encouraging creative, playful and immersive learning with your students. This variety of activities ranges fr...
This worksheet is designed to get students to contrast and compare books they’ve read with their filmed counterparts. Students not only revi...
Students cut and rearrange examples of persuasive texts to help cement their understanding of the structure of persuasive texts.
A short reading about The Story of Easter. From Palm Sunday, The Last Supper, Good Friday, Easter Sunday and Pentecost. The students read an...
A read-aloud storybook of The Three Billy Goats Gruff
Colour, cut, match and paste sentences to pictures. To be used along with the TeachThis storybook, The Three Billy Goats Gruff. Build com...
Reading comprehension questions to be used along with the TeachThis storybook, The Three Billy Goats Gruff.
The Three Billy Goats Gruff cloze passage. Use the word bank to complete the sentences. Can be used in conjunction with the TeachThis ‘Th...
A read-aloud storybook of The Gingerbread Man.
Colour, cut, match and paste sentences to pictures. To be used along with the TeachThis storybook, The Gingerbread Man. Build comprehensi...
Reading comprehension questions to be used along with the TeachThis storybook, The Gingerbread Man
The Gingerbread Man cloze passage. Use the word bank to complete the sentences. Can be used in conjunction with the TeachThis ‘The Ginger...
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.
These bookmarks provide prompts for students to understand how to approach literal, inferential and evaluative questions that they encounter...
The 'Close Readers Poster' poster is designed to inform students about the habits of successful readers.
This set of 'Animal Reading Strategy Charts' was designed to help students identify the correct comprehension strategies to use to build lit...
The 'Remarkable Readers' poster provides students with a quick reference chart for comprehension skills including: Inferential Comrpehension...
Students will understand how to use literal, evaluative and inferential comprehension skills to understand what they are reading.
This poster was designed to provide a simple definition for students to understand what is required of them when they are asked to make infe...
The 'Easter Cloze Activity - Middle & Upper Primary' activity is suitable for Year 3 -6 students. It tells the Easter Story in simple, easy...
The 'Super 6 Comprehension Strategies' classroom display includes the following strategies: Predict Make Connections Visualise Questio...
This set of Reciprocal Reading Charts creates a great to display to work through prior to beginning the Reciprocal Reading group process. Pr...
Reciprocal Reading Cards are a fantastic prompt for students as they work their way through this highly valuable process. Using the cards, e...
Each activity is individually numbered and linked to Howard Gardner's 8 Multiple Intelligences. They are suited to ANY STORY and ALL YEAR LE...
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