This comprehension activity, ‘Comprehension Strategies’ supports language development by encouraging students to use prompts and comprehension strategies as they read. It is aimed at developing students’ awareness of comprehension strategies, such as imagine, question, search, connect and summarise.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘Finding the Main Ideas’ supports language development by encouraging students to practise the comprehension strategy of finding the main ideas. Students will identify the main idea, key words and supporting details of different texts.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘Making Inferences’ supports language development by encouraging students to practise the comprehension strategy of making inferences. Students will infer what writers really want them to understand.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘Monitoring Reading’ supports language development by encouraging students to use text-processing strategies to monitor for meaning as they read. It provides students with helpful prompts when they lose their way reading.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘Monitoring Reading’ informs teaching of the specific text-processing strategies the students use while they read. It helps teachers identify the reading behaviours of students.
This graphic organiser, ‘Relationship Tree for Click, Clack, Moo’ asks students to identify the main theme and central ideas in the story Click, Clack, Moo: Cows That Type.