English / Year 2 / Literacy / Interpreting, analysing, evaluating

Curriculum content descriptions

Use comprehension strategies to build literal and inferred meaning and begin to analyse texts by drawing on growing knowledge of context, language and visual features and print and multimodal text structures (ACELY1670)

Elaborations
  • making connections between the text and students’ own experiences and experiences with other texts, comparing authors’ differing point of view on a topic
  • making connections between information in print and images
  • building on and using prior knowledge and vocabulary
  • making valid inferences using information in a text and students’ own prior knowledge
  • predicting, asking and answering questions as they read, and summarising and reviewing meaning
General capabilities
  • Literacy Literacy
  • Critical and creative thinking Critical and creative thinking
ScOT terms

Reading comprehension,  Multimodal texts

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