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 quick reference chart ‘Extrapolation of Information’ explains the difference between directly and non-directly stated meaning in text. It introduces students to the principles of layered storytelling and explains how to identify the explicit meaning, as well as the implicit meaning of a text, which is often the underlying theme or moral of the story, …More