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S2 - Reading Comprehension
Aligned to the NSW Syllabus for The Australian curriculum (https://educationstandards.nsw.edu.au/wps/portal/nesa/home)
- outcomes and content listed at bottom of page
- outcomes and content listed at bottom of page
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*Grapheme-Phoneme and Morphemes - see Vocabulary resources
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*Morphology and Etymology - see Vocabulary resources
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Online Texts
Into the book - reading.ecb
- summarising - visualising - questioning - evaluating - synthesising - prior knowledge - making connections - inferring 
Oxford Owl free e-books (free to join)
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Mighty Book Collection - mightybook
Greek Myths - more2.starfall
 Image by OpenClipart-Vectors from Pixabay
Funbrain online books for K-6
Books for older readers - magickeys
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Year 3 Reading Comprehension Printables from K12 reader
Year 4 Reading Comprehension Printables from K12 reader
Image by aleksandra85foto from Pixabay
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Treasure Island
"Robert Louis Stevenson's famous tale of pirates and treasure is told in 10 video clips. Young Jim Hawkins has a dull life working hard in the inn owned by his mother. But he dreams of adventure..." https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/school-radio/english-ks2-treasure-island/zn4fpg8 
Macbeth
"Macbeth and his comrade, Banquo, are returning from battle when they meet three strange creatures, the 'Weird Sisters'..." https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/school-radio/english-ks2-macbeth-index/zkxcbdm 
Image by Nina Garman from Pixabay
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The Tempest
" A ship returning from Africa is caught in a ferocious storm. On a nearby island Prospero, once Duke of Milan, has plans for those on board..." https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/school-radio/english-ks2-the-tempest-index/zfdshbk |
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War Horse - bbc
The Wind In The Willows - bbc
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Talking Poetry - bbc
Oliver Twist - bbc
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Let's Explore Poets, Collections and Interviews - Children's Poetry Archive
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Characters
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Character Descriptions Examples and Worksheets - K12Reader
Character Traits Examples and Worksheets - K12Reader
Characters Resources - (twinkl.com.au) subscription needed
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Compare and Contrast
Comprehension
IXL - Reading comprehension - various activities
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Context Clues
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IXL - Context clues activities
Context Clues Worksheets from K12 Reader
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Fact and Opinion
Fake News - see Stage 3 Reading Comprehension
Figurative Language
*See also Stage 2 Vocabulary for Metaphors and Homonyms
Genres - including Persuasive, Informative and Imaginative texts
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Printable 4th Grade Informational Writing Worksheets - Education.com (subscription required)
3rd Grade Reading Imaginative Texts - Education.com (subscription required)
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Printable 3rd Grade Informational Writing Worksheets - Education.com (subscription required)
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4th Grade Reading Imaginative Texts - Education.com (subscription required)
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Inferred and Literal Information
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Drawing Conclusions Worksheets from K12 Reader
Literal And Implied Meaning - (twinkl.com.au) subscription needed
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Main Idea - Summarising
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Main Idea Worksheets from K12 Reader
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Finding the Main Idea for Year 4 - Teach Starter - sign up required
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Point of View -
see Stage 3 Reading Comprehension
see Stage 3 Reading Comprehension
Research
Citing Sources - Bibliography
Scanning and Skimming
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Skimming And Scanning Activities - (twinkl.com.au) (subscription required)
Skimming and scanning - BBC Teach (video doesn't work in Aus, but the worksheets can be downloaded)
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Activities For Building Skimming And Scanning Skills - Number Dyslexia - good information and ideas for the classroom
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Sequencing
- also see Stage 3 Reading Comprehension
Setting
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Setting Examples & Worksheets: https://kidskonnect.com - KidsKonnect, (subscription required)
Setting Resources Y3 - (twinkl.com.au) (subscription required)
Setting Resources Y4 - (twinkl.com.au) (subscription required) |
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Story Elements
Structure and Language
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Text Structures Y3 - (twinkl.com.au) (subscription)
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Text Structures Y4 - (twinkl.com.au) (subscription)
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Syllabus Outcomes
EN2-RECOM-01 - reads and comprehends texts for wide purposes using knowledge of text structures and language, and by monitoring comprehension
Content
Reading for interest and wide purposes
Comprehending text structures and features
Comprehending language
Monitoring comprehension
- Identify different purposes and strategies for reading
- Select and read texts of personal interest and to gather information for learning
- Build topic knowledge, including key vocabulary, and activate background knowledge prior to and during reading
- Identify similarities and compare differences within and between texts by making text-to-self, text-to-text and text-to-world connections
- Locate, select and retrieve relevant information from a print or digital text and consider accuracy of information presented
- Determine the relevance of a text for a specific purpose
Comprehending text structures and features
- Identify different structures and features of persuasive, informative and imaginative texts
- Identify and describe how text structure, features and language work together to achieve a text’s purpose
- Describe how multimodal features enhance meaning and contribute to salience in texts
- Understand that dialogue is a common feature of imaginative texts, signalled by quotation marks or speech bubbles to indicate interactions between characters
- Identify the difference between quoted speech and reported speech
- Understand that literal information can be sourced directly from a text and that inferences can be made by using multiple sources of information
Comprehending language
- Use morphemic knowledge to read and understand the meaning of words
- Adjust own mental model as reading presents new words and understanding
- Use key words from a text to visualise events, characters and settings when making inferences and confirming predictions
- Identify the adverbs, nouns and verbs that influence own emotional response to characters
- Identify different types of verbs that control meaning
- Identify word patterns, including repetition, that create cohesion or effect
- Understand that word contractions are a feature of informal language and that apostrophes of contraction are used to signal missing letters
- Identify different types of connectives used by the author that support inference
- Use knowledge of homonyms to understand metaphor and to support inference
- Link the meanings of words and phrases across consecutive sentences to support local inferencing
- Clarify and link the meanings of key words across a text to support global inferencing
- Identify and describe the difference between subjective and objective language in texts
- Understand past, present and future tense and their impact on text meaning
Monitoring comprehension
- Identify how their background knowledge is used to actively build and adjust a mental model prior to and during reading
- Identify where meaning breaks down when reading
- Identify and use strategies to repair reading when meaning breaks down
- Ask questions to clarify meaning and promote deeper understanding of a text
- Make gist statements and record them to monitor understanding
- Use information from paragraphs or chapters to group related ideas and support summarisation of the whole text
- Reflect on reading experiences and identify texts of personal significance and pleasure
- Reflect on own understanding of texts and monitor own goals for reading
updated Nov 2023
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