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 Reading Comprehension worksheet, ‘A Fish Tale’, features a fable about a goldfish who does not listen to his teacher and ends up in danger. It encourages students to use a variety of strategies to interpret the text and includes questions about cause and effect, purpose, classification, reasoning, character, sequence, detail, and genre. The task …More
This graphic organiser, ‘I Spy A Word for Squids’ asks students to find unfamiliar vocabulary words as they read Squids Will Be Squids by Jon Scieszka and then use a dictionary to define those words.
This Reading Comprehension worksheet, ‘Rabbit Run’, features a fable about a young rabbit who does not listen to his mother’s advice. It encourages students to use a variety of strategies to interpret the text and includes questions about vocabulary, making an inference, reasoning, conclusion, sequence, predicting outcome, and genre. Answer sheet provided with file download.
This understanding text exemplar ‘The Bear and Two Travellers’ 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 elements exemplar ‘The Frogs and the Well’ 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 elements exemplar ‘The Miser and His Gold’ 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 elements exemplar ‘The Stag at the Pool’ 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 elements exemplar ‘The Wind and the Sun’ 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 Reading Comprehension worksheet, ‘Walking Star’s Story’, features a Native American fable about a young brave who manages to visit the Sun God’s home with the help of a spider. It encourages students to use a variety of strategies to interpret the text and includes questions about making a judgment, character, classification, vocabulary, cause and …More
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