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Reading comprehension
- This section focuses on activities and articles designed to support the development of key reading comprehension strategies for young learners, as most children’s books can be used to build comprehension.
- Aligned with the Australian Curriculum for Foundation (age 5), Year 1 (age 6), and Year 2 (age 7), these resources help children learn to:
– Visualise what’s happening in the text
– Predict what might happen next
– Connect the story to their own experiences
– Summarise key ideas
– Monitor their understanding
– Ask and answer questions to explore literal and inferred meaning - Many of the activities below support more than one strategy at a time and are designed to be flexible for classroom or home use. They are offered as reference tools to support both educators and families in nurturing confident, thoughtful readers.
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Planning a T4R Unit for Let’s Build a Boat For Years 1/2
Plan a T4R unit for Let’s Build a Boat. Blend literacy, design, testing, and engineering with collaborative benefits in fun Year 1/2 classroom lessons.
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Teaching Ideas for Let’s Build a Boat for Year 1
Teaching ideas for Let’s Build a Boat by Jane Godwin. Explore teamwork, design, testing, and engineering in fun Year 1/2 literacy and STEM lessons.
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The Shouting Girl: L11 Evaluation
📔 The Shouting Girl by Steven Huynh• We are learning to reflect on and evaluate the text by using full sentences, evidence from the text, and our own opinions to deepen comprehension.
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The Shouting Girl: L10 Summarising
📔 The Shouting Girl by Steven Huynh• We are learning to summarise the story to strengthen our comprehension skills.
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The Shouting Girl: L9 Identifying Exclusion
📔 The Shouting Girl by Steven Huynh• We are learning about exclusion in play through Jim.
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The Shouting Girl: L8 Making Inferences
📔 The Shouting Girl by Steven Huynh• We are learning to analyse the Kim character in the text by making inferences.
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The Shouting Girl: L7 Text Comparison
📔 The Shouting Girl by Steven Huynh• We are learning to compare texts with a similar topic and understand how different characters and settings help us learn about emotions.
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The Shouting Girl: L6 Literal Retrieval
📔 The Shouting Girl by Steven Huynh• We are learning to retrieve key details in the story.
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The Shouting Girl: L4 Safe Spaces
📔 The Shouting Girl by Steven Huynh• We are exploring safe spaces in the text to understand how they help us regulate.
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The Shouting Girl: L3 Making Connections
📔 The Shouting Girl by Steven Huynh• We are learning to make connections between the story and ourselves and make use of the regulation strategies from the text.
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The Shouting Girl: L2 Making Predictions
📔 The Shouting Girl by Steven Huynh• We are learning to make predictions about the text.
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The Shouting Girl – L1 Background Knowledge
📔 The Shouting Girl by Steven Huynh• We are learning to build our background knowledge to help us comprehend a text.
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Forming an Effective Talk For Reading Unit
Discover how a text’s literary features, reading skills, and the curriculum come together to form a complete Talk for Reading unit.
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