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 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 quick reference chart ‘Predicting Meaning in Text’ gives students different tactics to predict the meaning of a story. 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 ‘Predicting Outcomes’ gives students different tactics to predict what will happen next in a story. 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 and uses an example text to illustrate this approach.
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 analysing text worksheet ‘Preparing for a Hurricane’ supports students to use various strategies to understand an informative text that lists steps for action. 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 quick reference chart ‘Purpose for Reading’ helps students identify why they read and why authors write different texts. It is aimed at introducing students to the principles of why authors write – to inform, instruct, persuade and entertain – so that students can identify the purpose of each text and gain a deeper understanding …More
This quick reference chart ‘Purpose for Reading’ helps students identify why they read and why authors write different texts. It is aimed at introducing students to the principles of why authors write – to inform, instruct, persuade and entertain – so that students can identify the purpose of each text and gain a deeper understanding …More
This analysing text worksheet ‘Putting on Your Own Magic Show’ supports students to use various strategies to understand an informational text about performing magic. 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 draw conclusions …More
This quick reference chart ‘Questioning and Clarifying’ shows students questions to ask themselves to help them better understand a text. It is aimed at encouraging students to ask themselves questions as they read a text in order to gain a deeper understanding of its purpose and make a personal connection with the story.
This quick reference chart ‘Questioning and Clarifying’ shows students questions to ask themselves to help them better understand a text. It is aimed at encouraging students to ask themselves questions as they read a text in order to gain a deeper understanding of its purpose and make a personal connection with the story.
This predicting text exemplar ‘Questioning and Predicting’ shows students how to predict the outcome of a narrative text. It is aimed at encouraging students to guess what will happen next based on the clues provided in the story.
This understanding text worksheet ‘Questioning and Predicting Texts’ supports students to use various strategies to predict the outcome of two texts. 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 …More
This quick reference chart ‘Questioning, Clarifying, and Predicting’ helps students ask questions to understand a text and predict its outcome. It is aimed at encouraging students to ask themselves questions as they read a text in order to gain a deeper understanding of its purpose, predict what will happen next and make a personal connection …More
This quick reference chart ‘Questioning, Clarifying, and Predicting’ shows students questions to ask themselves to help them understand a text. It is aimed at encouraging students to ask themselves questions as they read a text in order to gain a deeper understanding of its purpose, predict what will happen next and make a personal connection …More
This quick reference chart ‘Questioning, Clarifying and Predicting’ shows students questions to ask while reading a text to help them understand it. It is aimed at encouraging students to ask themselves questions as they read a text in order to gain a deeper understanding of its purpose, guess what will happen next and make a …More
This analysing text worksheet ‘Rabbit Run’ helps students to use comprehension strategies to understand a fable about a young rabbit. 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 ‘Rodeo Clowns’ supports students to use various strategies to understand a narrative text about the role of rodeo clowns. 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 …More
This analysing text worksheet ‘Safety Tips to Avoid Getting Stung by Bees’ supports students to use various strategies to understand an informative text about 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 …More
This understanding text exemplar ‘Same Word, Different Meaning’ supports students to use various strategies to understand homonyms in a narrative text. It encourages students to look critically at words and to use context clues in order to ascertain their particular meaning.
This understanding text worksheet ‘Same Word Different Meaning’ supports students to practise using their, there and they’re. It encourages students to look critically at words and to use context clues in order to ascertain their particular meaning. In this case, the words ‘there’, ‘their’ and ‘they’re’ are examined.
This analysing text worksheet ‘Save the Manatee’ supports students to use various strategies to understand opposing letters to the editor about manatee conservation. 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 ‘Search and Rescue Dogs’ supports students to use various strategies to understand a narrative text about these special canines. 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 …More
This analysing text worksheet ‘Seeing Codes’ supports students to use various strategies to understand a narrative text about the use of codes through history. 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 make judgements about …More
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
This analysing text worksheet ‘Sir Francis Chichester’ supports students to use various strategies to understand a narrative text about the famous sailor and aviator. 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 …More
This analysing text worksheet ‘Sky Lights’ supports students to use various strategies to understand a narrative about American Indian star myths. 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 analysing text worksheet ‘Snowboarding’ supports students to use various strategies to understand a narrative text about the history of this sport. 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 analysing text worksheet ‘Snowboarding Equipment’ supports students to use various strategies to understand an informative text about this sport. 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 is organised and …More
This analysing text worksheet ‘So Many Things Worth Keeping’ supports students to use various strategies to understand a narrative text about a family holiday. 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
The learning activity, ‘Starry-eyed’ has four number patterns for students to solve. The starfish shapes have lines and spaces, with some spaces already filled: students use calculations to complete the number lines on all the starfish. An answer sheet is provided and includes accompanying teaching notes with suggestions for using different strategies to solve the …More
This analysing text worksheet ‘State Challenge Olympics Coming Soon?’ supports students to use various strategies to understand opposing letters to the editor about hosting 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 …More
This analysing text worksheet ‘Staying Cool’ supports students to use various strategies to understand a narrative text about a very hot day. 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 a text is …More
This analysing text worksheet ‘Stream Monitoring’ supports students to use various strategies to understand an informational text about water quality. 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 …More
This analysing text worksheet ‘Teacher of the Year’ supports students to use various strategies to understand a narrative text about an awkward situation. 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 know …More
This understanding text worksheet ‘The Baby-sitter’ supports students to predict the outcome of a narrative text about a girl who is baby-sitting during a scary storm. 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 …More
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 analysing text worksheet ‘The BIG Switch’ supports students to use various strategies to understand a narrative text about giant pet goldfish. It is aimed at encouraging students to deconstruct the text in order to gain a deeper understanding of its purpose and to recall specific details from the text, as well as draw conclusions …More
This analysing text worksheet ‘The Case of the Missing Chocolates’ supports students to use various strategies to understand a narrative text about chocolates that disappear. It is aimed at encouraging students to draw conclusions based on the information they have read, recall specific details from the text and to look critically at words in order …More
This analysing text worksheet ‘The Dreaded Ant’ supports students to use various strategies to understand a narrative text about army and driver ants. 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 ‘The Essex’ supports students to use various strategies to understand a narrative text this ill-fated whaling ship. 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 ‘The First African-American Female Pilot’ supports students to use various strategies to understand a narrative text about Bessie Coleman. 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 ‘The First UFO’ supports students to use various strategies to understand a narrative text about the first sighting of a UFO in America. 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 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 analysing text worksheet ‘The Hurricane of 1900’ supports students to use various strategies to understand a narrative text about the deadliest hurricane in US history. 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 extrapolation of information worksheet ‘The King’s Apples’ supports students to use various strategies to understand the explicit and implicit meaning of a narrative text. It is aimed at encouraging students to identify the directly stated meaning of the text as well as the lesson learned from the story to come up with it’s non-directly …More
This analysing text worksheet ‘The Kraken’ supports students to use various strategies to understand a narrative text about these mythical creatures. 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 ‘The Lakefield Times’ supports students to use various strategies to understand a newspaper editorial about a children’s benefit concert. 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 as make …More
This analysing text worksheet ‘The Magic Show’ supports students to use various strategies to understand a narrative text about magicians and their tricks .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 …More
This analysing text worksheet ‘The Mary Celeste’ supports students to use various strategies to understand a narrative text about the mysterious disappearance of this ship. 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 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 analysing text worksheet ‘The Mysterious Great Lakes’ supports students to use various strategies to understand a narrative text about the perils of travelling on this body of water in North America. It is aimed at encouraging students to deconstruct the text in order to gain a deeper understanding of its purpose, to recall specific …More
This analysing text worksheet ‘The Paralympics’ supports students to use various strategies to understand a narrative text about the history 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 and to look critically at …More
This analysing text worksheet ‘The Phoenix Gazette’ supports students to use various strategies to understand opposing letters to the editor regarding Gila monsters. 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 ‘The Relocation of Japanese Americans’ supports students to use various strategies to understand a narrative text about the mistreatment-treatment of Japanese Americans during 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, …More
This extrapolation of information exemplar ‘The Skating Accident’ shows students how 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 ‘The Special Olympics’ supports students to use various strategies to understand a narrative text about 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 make judgements about and draw conclusions …More
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 analysing text worksheet ‘The Storm that Claimed Our House’ supports students to use various strategies to understand a narrative text. 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 ‘The Thrill of the Catch’ supports students to use various strategies to understand a narrative text about fishing in the Galapagos Islands. It is aimed at encouraging students to recall specific details from the text and clarify their meaning, to look critically at words in order to ascertain their particular meaning …More
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