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Predicting the Past
5 Pre & Primary Essentials Worksheets English Analysing, Interpreting & Evaluating 10 Pages

Predicting the Past

This resource includes differentiated reading comprehension worksheets focusing on key historical figures and their impact on Australia's colonies. It features prediction-based questions, an anticipation guide, and follow-up activities. The worksheets are tailored for upper, middle, and lower primary students, supporting diverse learning needs.
 

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Learning goals

  • We are learning to read texts and apply appropriate comprehension strategies to analyse information, e.g. predicting, confirming, monitoring meaning, skimming and scanning.
  • We are learning to use comprehension strategies to build literal and inferred meaning and evaluate texts.
  • We are learning to understand the role that a significant individual or group played in shaping a colony.
  • We are learning to use comprehension strategies to analyse information, integrating and linking ideas from a variety of print and digital sources.
  • We are learning to understand the reasons people migrated to Australia and the experiences and contributions of a particular migrant group within a colony.

Curriculum alignment

HT3-5 old Applies a variety of skills of historical inquiry and communication HT3-4 old Describes and explains the struggles for rights and freedoms in Australia, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples 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 HT3-3 old Identifies change and continuity and describes the causes and effects of change on Australian society HT3-2 old Describes and explains different experiences of people living in Australia over time HT3-1 old Describes and explains the significance of people, groups, places and events to the development of Australia 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 EN3-OLC-01 new Communicates to wide audiences with social and cultural awareness, by interacting and presenting, and by analysing and evaluating for understanding
VCHHC082 Sequence significant events and lifetimes of people in chronological order to create a narrative to explain the developments in Australia’s colonial past and the causes and effects of Federation on its people VCHHK091 The causes and the reasons why people migrated to Australia from Europe and Asia, and the perspectives, experiences and contributions of a particular migrant group within a colony VCHHC087 Explain the significance of an event and an individual or group that influenced change in the Australian colonies and in Australian society since Federation VCHHK092 The role that a significant individual or group played in shaping and changing a colony VCELY319 Use comprehension strategies to analyse information, integrating and linking ideas from a variety of print and digital sources VCELY318 Navigate and read imaginative, informative and persuasive texts by interpreting structural features, including tables of content, glossaries, chapters, headings and subheadings and applying appropriate text processing strategies, including monitoring meaning, skimming and scanning

Australian Curriculum covers QLD / SA / WA / NT / TAS / ACT.

Differentiation

Modifications

Students complete Blaxland, Lawson and Wentworth- 1 Star
 

Extensions

Students complete John Oxley- 2 Stars
Students complete Charles Sturt- 3 Stars

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