How Many Babies?
This reading comprehension activity has students complete a short reading on the reproductive rates of different living things so students can link it with the rate of evolutionary change.
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Learning goals
- We are learning to identify authors’ use of vivid, emotive vocabulary, such as metaphors, similes, personification, idioms, imagery and hyperbole.
- We are learning to investigate how vocabulary choices, including evaluative language can express shades of meaning, feeling and opinion.
- We are learning to use comprehension strategies to build literal and inferred meaning and to connect and compare content from a variety of sources.
- We are learning to use comprehension strategies to interpret and analyse information, comparing content from a variety of print and digital sources.
- We are learning to understand that the growth and survival of living things are affected by physical conditions of their environment.
Curriculum alignment
AC9S6U01
9
Investigate the physical conditions of a habitat and analyse how the growth and survival of living things is affected by changing physical conditions
AC9E6LY05
9
Use comprehension strategies such as visualising, predicting, connecting, summarising, monitoring and questioning to build literal and inferred meaning, and to connect and compare content from a variety of sources
AC9E6LA08
9
Identify authors’ use of vivid, emotive vocabulary, such as metaphors, similes, personification, idioms, imagery and hyperbole
ACELY1713
8.4
Use comprehension strategies to interpret and analyse information and ideas, comparing content from a variety of textual sources including media and digital texts
ACELA1525
8.4
Investigate how vocabulary choices, including evaluative language can express shades of meaning, feeling and opinion
ACSSU094
8.4
The growth and survival of living things are affected by physical conditions of their environment
EN3-6B
old
Uses knowledge of sentence structure, grammar, punctuation and vocabulary to respond to and compose clear and cohesive texts in different media and technologies
ST3-5LW-T
old
Explains how food and fibre are produced sustainably in managed environments for health and nutrition
ST3-4LW-S
old
Examines how the environment affects the growth, survival and adaptation of living things
ST3-2DP-T
old
Plans and uses materials, tools and equipment to develop solutions for a need or opportunity
ST3-1WS-S
old
Plans and conducts scientific investigations to answer testable questions, and collects and summarises data to communicate conclusions
EN3-3A
old
Uses an integrated range of skills, strategies and knowledge to read, view and comprehend a wide range of texts in different media and technologies
EN3-OLC-01
new
Communicates to wide audiences with social and cultural awareness, by interacting and presenting, and by analysing and evaluating for understanding
EN3-VOCAB-01
new
Extends Tier 2 and Tier 3 vocabulary through interacting, wide reading and writing, morphological analysis and generating precise definitions for specific contexts
EN3-RECOM-01
new
Fluently reads and comprehends texts for wide purposes, analysing text structures and language, and by monitoring comprehension
EN3-UARL-01
new
Analyses representations of ideas in literature through narrative, character, imagery, symbol and connotation, and adapts these representations when creating texts
EN3-UARL-02
new
Analyses representations of ideas in literature through genre and theme that reflect perspective and context, argument and authority, and adapts these representations when creating texts
VCELY347
Use comprehension strategies to interpret and analyse information and ideas, comparing content from a variety of textual sources including media and digital texts
VCSSU075
The growth and survival of living things are affected by the physical conditions of their environment
VCELA352
Investigate how vocabulary choices, including evaluative language can express shades of meaning, feeling and opinion
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