Read between the lines: neighbourhood

Educational value

• Includes five written and graphic texts for students to analyse, in order to identify clearly stated information, opinions, feelings and ideas in each text.
• Encourages students to draw together the information collected from the five individual texts, to address a broader issue.
• Highlights ways in which written and graphic texts imply ideas, opinions, feelings and information.
• Provides opportunities for students to practise reading for implied meaning behind words and pictures by offering a series of scaffolded comprehension activities.
• Demonstrates how reading and analysing a group of texts in a specific context can build up a broader picture than each text on its own.
• Provides opportunities for students to apply their own opinions to the information they read.
• Provides a succession of levels of complexity that support a student’s progress.
• Includes an option to print a record of the student's analysis for each text, their final summary and their answer to the main question.

Year level

2; 3; 4

Topics English language Reading Reading comprehension Attitudes Signboards Media Text types Text purpose