This graphic organiser, ‘A Picture Tells a Thousand Words’ asks students to judge the importance of a photograph or other picture in a non-fiction text based on how much information it gives.
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 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 graphic organiser, ‘Evaluating a Text’ supports the teaching of comprehension and reading strategies by prompting students to record their responses to a text.
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
This predicting outcomes exemplar ‘Not Just a Day at the Beach’ asks students questions about a narrative text to help them predict the outcome. 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 they …More
This quick reference chart ‘Predicting Meaning’ shows students how to relate what they are reading to their own life to predict the meaning of a text. It is aimed at encouraging students to ask themselves questions as they read a text in order to predict what will happen next by using clues from the story, …More
This understanding text exemplar ‘Predicting Outcomes’ asks students questions about a narrative text to help them predict the outcome. It encourages students to use their personal experience and clues from tone and expression to guess the meaning of sentences with little or no context and uses an example text to illustrate this approach.
This predicting outcomes exemplar ‘Sentences from a Famous Story’ asks students questions about a narrative text with no context to help them predict the outcome. It encourages students to use their personal experience and clues from tone and expression to guess the meaning of sentences with little or no context and uses an example text …More
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