Reading Strategies in Use

• We are learning to use comprehension strategies to build literal and inferred meaning and evaluate texts.

Curriculum alignment

• Australian Curriculum 1

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

Linked resources & worksheets

• Year: 5
  Presentation

  Comprehension Strategy- Summarising - Presentation

  This visually engaging presentation guides students through the strategy of summarising, including identifying the main idea, finding key de...

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• Year: 3 4 5 6
  Resource

  Reading Strategies Poster Set

  A series of posters that support the teaching and learning of comprehension reading strategies, including activating prior knowledge, predic...

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• Year: 3 4 5 6
  Resource

  Reading is Thinking

  A set of posters encouraging students to remember important strategies for deep reading understanding, featuring activate prior knowledge, p...

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• Year: 3 4 5 6
  Resource

  Reading Role Cards

  This set of Reciprocal Reading Cards provides a valuable student reference for the Reciprocal Reading Roles, including Director, Predictor,...

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• Year: 3 4 5 6
  Resource

  Reading Role Charts

  This set of Reciprocal Reading Charts creates a great display to work through before starting the Reciprocal Reading group process. The set...

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• Year: 5
  Resource

  Comprehension Strategy- Summarising - Student Reference Card

  Equip your students with this handy reference card on summarising. Print and paste it into their English books to provide a quick and easy t...

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• Year: 3 4 5 6
  Worksheet

  Summarising- Graphic Organisers

  This set of graphic organisers supports the comprehension reading strategy of summarising. It includes various organisers to help students r...

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• Year: 5
  Worksheet

  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 wo...

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• Year: 5
  Worksheet

  Notetaking

  This set of worksheets provides a structured, engaging way for students to practice note-taking and summarising, focusing on the causes of t...

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• Year: 5
  Worksheet

  One Sentence Summaries

  This set of worksheets will help you guide your students in summarising nonfiction texts. Each worksheet provides a text and prompts student...

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• Year: 5
  Worksheet

  Summarise It!

  This series of worksheets helps students read a text about weathering and erosion, use graphic organisers to identify key features and summa...

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• Year: 3 4 5 6
  Resource

  Spin, Summarise and Share

  These spinners are the perfect addition to the Summarising comprehension unit as they allow students to verbally discuss and summarise the k...

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• Year: 3 4 5 6
  Resource

  Roll and Respond- Summarising

  Enhance students' summarising skills with this engaging literacy activity, perfect for literacy rotations, fast finishers, or extensions. Af...

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• Year: 5
  Resource

  Comprehension Strategy- Summarising - Quiz

  Assess students' summarising skills with this comprehensive 10-question quiz. Explore the purpose and essential skills of summarising, concl...

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• Year: 5
  Worksheet

  Comprehension Strategy- Summarising - Assessment

  This two-page assessment evaluates students' summarising skills as a comprehension strategy, focusing on identifying key words and main idea...

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• Year: 5
  Worksheet

  Comprehension Strategy- Summarising - Marking Rubric

  This 5-point assessment rubric supports the unit of work on summarising. It aligns with activities, worksheets, and assessments in the unit,...

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• Year: 5
  Resource

  English Unit: Comprehension Strategy- Summarising

  Enhance students' summarising skills with our comprehensive unit plan. Includes posters, a student reference card, worksheets, a quiz, and a...

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