Summarising Assessment
This summarising assessment is available in both fiction and non-fiction formats. Each assessment task ask students to read a short text before recording the important information and writing their own short summary statement.
This worksheet can be used as a post-assessment at the completion of your Summarising unit.
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Learning goals
- We are learning to use comprehension strategies to find literal and inferred meaning in texts and begin to analyse texts by drawing on our knowledge.
Curriculum alignment
AC9E2LY05
9
Use comprehension strategies such as visualising, predicting, connecting, summarising, monitoring and questioning to build literal and inferred meaning
ACELY1670
8.4
Use comprehension strategies to build literal and inferred meaning and begin to analyse texts by drawing on growing knowledge of context, language and visual features and print and multimodal text structures
EN1-4A
old
Draws on an increasing range of skills and strategies to fluently read, view and comprehend a range of texts on less familiar topics in different media and technologies
EN1-VOCAB-01
new
Understands and effectively uses Tier 1, taught Tier 2 and Tier 3 vocabulary to extend and elaborate ideas
EN1-RECOM-01
new
Comprehends independently read texts that require sustained reading by activating background and word knowledge, connecting and understanding sentences and whole text, and monitoring for meaning
Australian Curriculum covers QLD / SA / WA / NT / TAS / ACT.
Differentiation
Modifications
If the text is too challenging for some students, use the ‘Summarising Stars’ worksheet, for students to summarise a text at their level.
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