English Unit: Comprehension Strategy: Text To Text Connections
This wonderful unit focuses on the reading comprehension strategy of making connections and is a great way to introduce your students to making connections to the text as they engage in a variety of stories. This unit teaches students how making connections to characters, settings, events and messages can help them comprehend texts to a greater extent.
Learning goals
- We are learning to use comprehension strategies, such as retelling, making inferences and finding key words to make meaning from multimodal texts.
- We are learning to use comprehension strategies, such as visualising, predicting, connecting, summarising and questioning to make meaning.
Curriculum alignment
AC9EFLY05
9
Use comprehension strategies such as visualising, predicting, connecting, summarising and questioning to understand and discuss texts listened to, viewed or read independently
ACELY1650
8.4
Use comprehension strategies to understand and discuss texts listened to, viewed or read independently
ENe-4A
old
Demonstrates developing skills and strategies to read, view and comprehend short, predictable texts on familiar topics in different media and technologies
ENE-RECOM-01
new
Comprehends independently read texts using background knowledge, word knowledge and understanding of how sentences connect
Australian Curriculum covers QLD / SA / WA / NT / TAS / ACT.