This text elements exemplar ‘A Bundle of Sticks’ shows students how to identify the story’s central idea and supporting details. It is aimed at introducing students to the principles of deconstructing texts in order to gain a deeper understanding of their purpose.
This text type exemplar ‘A Business Letter’ shows students how to identify the structure and genre of an informational text. It is aimed at encouraging students to identify details from the beginning, middle and end of the sample text, identifying whether this story is an example of the narrative or informational genre.
This questioning and predicting worksheet ‘A Costume Party’ supports students to predict the outcome of a narrative text. It is aimed at encouraging students to write about what will happen next based on the clues provided in the story, and provides questions to help them map out their ideas. It also asks students questions to …More
This analysing text worksheet ‘A Daring Feat’ supports students to use various strategies to understand a narrative about magic tricks. It is aimed at encouraging students to recall specific details from the text as well as draw conclusions about the text as a whole in order to answer questions about it. Answer sheet provided with …More
This Reading Comprehension worksheet, ‘A Day at the Circus’, features a narrative text about a family of clowns who visit a boy’s class to talk about circus life and then invite the class to visit the circus. It encourages students to use a variety of strategies to interpret the text and includes questions about making …More
This analysing text worksheet ‘A Figure Skating Controversy’ supports students to use various strategies to understand a narrative text about controversial judging in this Winter Olympics event. It is aimed at encouraging students to deconstruct the text in order to gain a deeper understanding of its purpose, to recall specific details from the text, to …More
This analysing text worksheet ‘A Garden Visitor’ supports students to use various strategies to understand a narrative text about chipmunks. It is aimed at encouraging students to deconstruct the text in order to gain a deeper understanding of its purpose, to recall specific details from the text and to look critically at words in order …More
This analysing text worksheet ‘A Great Sea Rescue’ supports students to use various strategies to understand a narrative text about two ships that collided in New York Harbour. It is aimed at encouraging students to deconstruct the text in order to gain a deeper understanding of its purpose, to recall specific details from the text, …More
This analysing text worksheet ‘A Long Way from Home’ supports students to use various strategies to understand a narrative text about homing pigeons. It is aimed at encouraging students to deconstruct the text in order to gain a deeper understanding of its purpose, to recall specific details from the text, to look critically at words …More
This analysing text worksheet ‘A Marine Menace’ supports students to use various strategies to understand a narrative about jellyfish. It is aimed at encouraging students to deconstruct the text in order to gain a deeper understanding of its purpose, to recall specific details from the text and to look critically at words in order to …More
This analysing text worksheet ‘A Paiute Princess’ supports students to use various strategies to understand a narrative text about Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins. It is aimed at encouraging students to deconstruct the text in order to gain a deeper understanding of its purpose, to recall specific details from the text, to look critically at words in …More
This predicting text worksheet ‘A Presidential Odyssey’ supports students to use various strategies to understand a narrative text about Theodore and Franklin D. Roosevelt. It is aimed at encouraging students to deconstruct the text in order to gain a deeper understanding of its purpose, to recall specific details from the text, to look critically at …More
This analysing text worksheet ‘A Series of Atypical Events’ supports students to use various strategies to understand a narrative text about a party and skiing accident. It is aimed at encouraging students to deconstruct the text in order to gain a deeper understanding of its purpose, to recall specific details from the text, to look …More
This understanding text exemplar ‘A Story About Moses’ Birthday’ supports students to use various strategies to find the implicit and explicit meaning of a narrative text. It encourages students to ask questions to find the directly stated meaning of the story, then to find the deeper, not-directly stated meaning of the story.
This analysing text worksheet ‘A Survivor’ supports students to use various strategies to understand a narrative about an injured dog. It is aimed at encouraging students to deconstruct the text in order to gain a deeper understanding of its purpose, to recall specific details from the text and to look critically at words in order …More
This analysing text worksheet ‘Accidents Happen’ supports students to use various strategies to understand a narrative text about a disastrous night out. It is aimed at encouraging students to deconstruct the text in order to gain a deeper understanding of its purpose, to recall specific details from the text, to examine how the text, as …More
This analysing text worksheet ‘Africanised “Killer” Bees’ supports students to use various strategies to understand a narrative text about these dangerous bees. It is aimed at encouraging students to deconstruct the text in order to gain a deeper understanding of its purpose, to recall specific details from the text, to look critically at words, as …More
This analysing text worksheet ‘An Environmental Quandary’ supports students to use various strategies to understand a narrative text about a woman’s aversion to mice. It is aimed at encouraging students to deconstruct the text in order to gain a deeper understanding of its purpose, to recall specific details from the text, to look critically at …More
This analysing text worksheet ‘An Uneasy Move’ supports students to use various strategies to understand a narrative text about moving overseas. It is aimed at encouraging students to deconstruct the text in order to gain a deeper understanding of its purpose, to recall specific details from the text, to look critically at words in order …More
This analysing text worksheet ‘Animal Acts’ supports students to use various strategies to understand a narrative text about circus animals. It is aimed at encouraging students to deconstruct the text in order to gain a deeper understanding of its purpose, to recall specific details from the text and to look critically at words in order …More
This quick reference chart ‘Author’s Meaning’ shows students the possible different meanings of a text without context. It encourages students to use their personal experience and clues from tone and expression to guess the meaning of a sentence with little or no context.
This quick reference chart ‘Author’s Meaning’ shows students the possible different meanings of a text without context. It encourages students to use their personal experience and clues from tone and expression to guess the meaning of a paragraph with little or no context.
This analysing text worksheet ‘Baffling the Enemy’ supports students to use various strategies to understand a narrative text about the role of Native American code-talkers in WWII. It is aimed at encouraging students to deconstruct the text in order to gain a deeper understanding of its purpose, to recall specific details from the text, to …More
This analysing text worksheet ‘Balanced Discussion about Sharks’ supports students to use various strategies to understand opposing letters to the editor about these animals. It is aimed at encouraging students to deconstruct the text in order to gain a deeper understanding of its purpose, to recall specific details from the text, to look critically at …More
This analysing text worksheet ‘Become a Challenge Olympics Volunteer’ supports students to use various strategies to understand an informative text about volunteering at these games. It is aimed at encouraging students to deconstruct the text in order to gain a deeper understanding of its purpose, to recall specific details from the text, to look critically …More
This analysing text worksheet ‘Betsy’s Birthday Pony’ supports students to use various strategies to understand a narrative text about a girl who wants a pony. It is aimed at encouraging students to recall specific details from the text and to look critically at words in order to ascertain their particular meaning in context, as well …More
This analysing text worksheet ‘Braille’ supports students to use various strategies to understand a narrative text on the Braille writing system. It is aimed at encouraging students to deconstruct the text in order to gain a deeper understanding of its purpose, to recall specific details from the text, to look critically at words in order …More
This analysing text worksheet ‘Bruce Gets a Hand in Art Class’ supports students to predict the outcome of a narrative text about an imaginary hand. It is aimed at encouraging students to ask questions and use their personal experience, along with clues provided in the story to guess what will happen next and consider how …More
This analysing text worksheet ‘Building a Viking Longboat’ supports students to use various strategies to understand an informational text about how Viking’s built these boats. It is aimed at encouraging students to recall specific details from the text, to look critically at words in order to ascertain their particular meaning in context, to examine how …More
This understanding text worksheet, ‘Call Him Lucky’ supports students to use various strategies to understand a narrative about an unwanted dog. It is aimed at encouraging students to deconstruct the text in order to gain a deeper understanding of its purpose, to recall specific details from the text and to look critically at words in …More
This understanding text exemplar ‘Climb to Inspiration Point’ shows students how to predict the outcome of a story. It is aimed at encouraging students to guess what will happen next based on the clues provided in the story.
This analysing text worksheet ‘Conduct Code for Midland School’ supports students to use various strategies to understand an informative text about school rules. It is aimed at encouraging students to deconstruct the text in order to gain a deeper understanding of its purpose, to recall specific details from the text, to look critically at words …More
This understanding text exemplar ‘Could the Same Word Have Two Meanings?’ shows students how to identify the different meanings of words that are spelt the same within a narrative text. It encourages students to look critically at words and to use context clues in order to ascertain their meaning in a specific context.
This analysing text worksheet ‘Creative Rejections’ supports students to use various strategies to understand a narrative text about the rejected works of Sir Christopher Wren and Frank Lloyd Wright. It is aimed at encouraging students to deconstruct the text in order to gain a deeper understanding of its purpose, to recall specific details from the …More
This analysing text exemplar ‘Danica’s Hero’ shows students how to identify the genre of a text, as well as its implicit and explicit meaning. It is aimed at encouraging students to identify details from the beginning, middle and end of the sample text, identifying whether the story is an example of narrative or informational text …More
This facts and opinions exemplar ‘Debate Team’ shows students how to locate the facts and opinions in an example text. It is aimed at introducing students to forming and explaining their opinions, and shows how the author decided her position on a topic, then used facts to support her opinion.
This author’s purpose exemplar ‘Dena’s New Puppy’ supports students to identify the author’s purpose for writing a text. It encourages students to look critically at the text in order to ascertain whether the author wrote it to persuade, teach or entertain the reader.
This analysing text worksheet ‘Devastating Waves’ supports students to use various strategies to understand a narrative text about tsunamis. It is aimed at encouraging students to deconstruct the text in order to gain a deeper understanding of its purpose, to recall specific details from the text, to look critically at words in order to ascertain …More
This analysing text worksheet ‘Dolley Madison’ supports students to use various strategies to understand a narrative text about this US first lady. It is aimed at encouraging students to deconstruct the text in order to gain a deeper understanding of its purpose, to recall specific details from the text, to look critically at words in …More
This understanding text exemplar ‘Drawing Conclusions’ shows students the steps to follow to draw a conclusion about something they have read. It is aimed at encouraging students to deconstruct texts in order to gain a deeper understanding of their purpose, then put this together with what they already know about a topic to draw conclusions …More
This analysing text worksheet ‘Early Women Drivers Who Dared to Be Different’ supports students to use various strategies to understand a narrative text about the first women to drive from coast-to-coast across America. It is aimed at encouraging students to deconstruct the text in order to gain a deeper understanding of its purpose, to recall …More
This facts and opinions exemplar ‘Editorial in the School Newspaper’ shows students how to use facts to support their opinions. It is aimed at introducing students to forming and explaining their opinions, using ideas and information from texts to back them up, and illustrates this process by showing how the author decided her position on …More
This analysing text worksheet ‘Editorial on The Paralympics’ supports students to use various strategies to understand a newspaper editorial about the importance of these games. It is aimed at encouraging students to deconstruct the text in order to gain a deeper understanding of its purpose, to recall specific details from the text, to look critically …More
This analysing text worksheet ‘Ellis Island’ supports students to use various strategies to understand a narrative text about this historic place. It is aimed at encouraging students to recall specific details from the text and to clarify their meaning, as well as draw conclusions and form opinions about the text as a whole in order …More
This analysing text exemplar ‘Emily Meets Jacob’ shows students how to identify the structure and genre of a narrative text. It is aimed at encouraging students to identify details from the beginning, middle and end of the text as well as identifying whether the story is an example of narrative or everyday text.
This quick reference chart ‘Extrapolation of Information’ guides students in finding the implicit and explicit meaning of a fable. It introduces students to the principles of layered storytelling and uses a practical example to explain how to identify the directly stated meaning, as well as the not-directly stated meaning, which is often the underlying theme …More
This finding meaning in text exemplar ‘Extrapolation of Information’ shows students how to find the implicit and explicit meaning of a narrative text. It introduces students to the principles of layered storytelling and uses a practical example to explain how to identify the directly stated meaning, as well as the not-directly stated meaning, which is …More
This finding meaning in text exemplar ‘Extrapolation of Information’ shows students how to find the implicit and explicit meaning of a narrative text. It introduces students to the principles of layered storytelling and uses a practical example to explain how to identify the directly stated meaning, as well as the not-directly stated meaning, which is …More
This quick reference chart ‘Facts and Opinions’ shows students the difference between facts and opinions. It is aimed at introducing students to forming and explaining their opinions, using ideas and information from texts to back them up.
This understanding text worksheet ‘Facts and Opinions’ supports students to use various strategies to differentiate between facts and opinions. It is aimed at introducing students to forming and explaining their opinions, using ideas and information from texts to back them up. It includes a practical example that shows how the author decided his position on …More
This quick reference chart ‘Facts and Opinions’ shows students the difference between facts and opinions. It is aimed at introducing students to forming and explaining their opinions, using ideas and information from texts to back them up.
This quick reference chart ‘Facts and Opinions’ shows students the difference between facts and opinions. It is aimed at introducing students to forming and explaining their opinions, using ideas and information from texts to back them up, and includes a practical exercise to help students identify facts and opinions. Answer sheet provided with file download.
This quick reference chart ‘Facts and Opinions’ shows students the difference between facts and opinions. It is aimed at introducing students to forming and explaining their opinions, using ideas and information from texts to back them up, and includes a practical exercise to help students identify facts and opinions.
This understanding text exemplar ‘Facts and Opinions’ shows students the difference between facts and opinions and provides advice for answering open-ended questions. It is aimed at introducing students to forming and explaining their opinions, using ideas and information from texts to back them up, and includes a practical exercise to help students identify facts and …More
This understanding text exemplar ‘Facts and Opinions: Letter to the Editor’ shows students an example of a text that uses facts to support an opinion. It is aimed at introducing students to forming and explaining their opinions, using ideas and information from texts to back them up, and illustrates this process by showing how the …More
This understanding text exemplar ‘Facts and Opinions: Letter to the Editor’ shows students an example of a text that uses facts to support an opinion. It is aimed at introducing students to forming and explaining their opinions, using ideas and information from texts to back them up, and illustrates this process by showing how the …More
This analysing text worksheet ‘Fair Laws for All!’ supports students to use various strategies to understand a narrative text about US immigration laws. It is aimed at encouraging students to deconstruct the text in order to gain a deeper understanding of its purpose, to recall specific details from the text, to look critically at words …More
This understanding text exemplar ‘Finding Clues and Drawing Conclusions’ shows students how to use context clues and personal experience to understand a narrative text. It is aimed at encouraging students to deconstruct texts in order to gain a deeper understanding of their purpose, then put this together with what they already know about a topic …More
This understanding text exemplar ‘Finding Clues and Drawing from Experience’ shows students how to use clues and personal experience to understand a narrative text. It provides a practical example for students of how to deconstruct a text in order to gain a deeper understanding of its purpose, then put this together with what they already …More
This understanding text exemplar ‘Finding Clues and Drawing from Experience’ shows students how to use context clues and personal experience to predict the outcome of a narrative text. It provides a practical example for students of how to deconstruct a text in order to gain a deeper understanding of its purpose, then put this together …More
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