Identifying Key Words
This worksheet helps students learn about key words and their role in summarising. Using a text about whale sharks, students identify key words and then discuss and justify their choices with peers. It is ideal for enhancing comprehension and summarisation skills.
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Learning goals
- We are learning to use comprehension strategies to build literal and inferred meaning and evaluate texts.
- We are learning to use comprehension strategies to analyse information, integrating and linking ideas from a variety of print and digital sources.
Curriculum alignment
AC9E5LY05
9
Use comprehension strategies such as visualising, predicting, connecting, summarising, monitoring and questioning to build literal and inferred meaning to evaluate information and ideas
ACELY1703
8.4
Use comprehension strategies to analyse information, integrating and linking ideas from a variety of print and digital sources
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-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
Australian Curriculum covers QLD / SA / WA / NT / TAS / ACT.
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