English / Year 3 / Literacy / Interpreting, analysing, evaluating

Curriculum content descriptions

Use comprehension strategies to build literal and inferred meaning and begin to evaluate texts by drawing on a growing knowledge of context, text structures and language features (ACELY1680)

Elaborations
  • making connections between the text and students own experience and other texts
  • making connections between the information in print and images
  • making predictions and asking and answering questions about the text drawing on knowledge of the topic, subject-specific vocabulary and experience of texts on the same topic
  • using text features and search tools to locate information in written and digital texts efficiently
  • determining important ideas, events or details in texts commenting on things learned or questions raised by reading, referring explicitly to the text for verification
  • making considered inferences taking into account topic knowledge or a character’s likely actions and feelings
General capabilities
  • Literacy Literacy
  • Critical and creative thinking Critical and creative thinking
  • Personal and social capability Personal and social capability
ScOT terms

Reading comprehension

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Teaching Reading and Viewing - Comprehension Strategies and activities for Years 1-9

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Literacy Empowerment Project: Literacy Backpack Program

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