English / Year 6 / Literacy / Interpreting, analysing, evaluating

Curriculum content descriptions

Select, navigate and read texts for a range of purposes, applying appropriate text processing strategies and interpreting structural features, for example table of contents, glossary, chapters, headings and subheadings (ACELY1712)

Elaborations
  • bringing subject and technical vocabulary and concept knowledge to new reading tasks, selecting, evaluating and using texts for their pertinence to the task and the accuracy of their information
  • using word identification, self-monitoring and self-correcting strategies
  • using research skills including identifying research purpose, locating texts, gathering and organising information, evaluating and using information
  • identifying and using texts for a wide range of purposes, selecting texts by favourite authors and trying new ones
General capabilities
  • Literacy Literacy
  • Critical and creative thinking Critical and creative thinking
ScOT terms

Reading comprehension,  Typography

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