Talking About Tokyo – Cloze Passage
This cloze passage provides facts about the city of Tokyo in Japan and requires students to use their comprehension abilities to determine the missing word the fits each space.
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Learning goals
- We are learning to use comprehension strategies to find literal and inferred meaning in texts.
- We are learning to use comprehension strategies to find literal and inferred meaning in texts.
- We are learning to read texts fluently and use strategies to make meaning.
- We are learning to read less predictable texts fluently and use strategies to make meaning.
Curriculum alignment
AC9E1LY05
9
Use comprehension strategies such as visualising, predicting, connecting, summarising and questioning when listening, viewing and reading to build literal and inferred meaning by drawing on vocabulary and growing knowledge of context and text structures
AC9E2LY04
9
Read texts with phrasing and fluency, using phonic and word knowledge, and monitoring meaning by re-reading and self-correcting
ACELY1660
8.4
Use comprehension strategies to build literal and inferred meaning about key events, ideas and information in texts that they listen to, view and read by drawing on growing knowledge of context, text structures and language features
ACELY1669
8.4
Read less predictable texts with phrasing and fluency by combining contextual, semantic, grammatical and phonic knowledge using text processing strategies, for example monitoring meaning, predicting, rereading and self-correcting
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
EN1-PHOKW-01
new
Uses initial and extended phonics, including vowel digraphs, trigraphs to decode and encode words when reading and creating texts
EN1-REFLU-01
new
Sustains reading unseen texts with automaticity and prosody and self-corrects errors
VCELY186
Use comprehension strategies to build literal and inferred meaning about key events, ideas and information in texts that they listen to, view and read by drawing on growing knowledge of context, text structures and language features
VCELY221
Read familiar and some unfamiliar texts with phrasing and fluency by combining phonic, semantic, contextual and grammatical knowledge using text processing strategies, including monitoring meaning, predicting, rereading and self-correcting
Australian Curriculum covers QLD / SA / WA / NT / TAS / ACT.
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