THICK and THIN
These worksheets guide students through reading a nonfiction text about cyclones and creating and answering thick (inferential) and thin (literal) questions. They highlight the importance of comprehension questioning skills and are an excellent resource for teaching critical thinking and reading comprehension.
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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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