These posters explain all six comprehension strategies and support students to make meaning when reading texts. Each strategy has a supporting Activity Card that can be used as a whole class activity or in Reading Groups. These cards are designed to be open ended and suited to a variety texts and allow for differentiation as students can draw or write their responses.
The strategies include:
-Monitoring
-Predicting
-Summarising
-Visualising
-Making Connections
-Questioning
These print out one strategy per A4 page.
Australian Curriculum content descriptions
Discuss characters and events in a range of literary texts and share personal responses to these texts, making connections with students' own experiences (ACELT1582)
Use comprehension strategies to build literal and inferred meaning about key events, ideas and information in texts that they listen to, view and read by drawing on growing knowledge of context, text structures and language features (ACELY1660)
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)
Use comprehension strategies to build literal and inferred meaning to expand content knowledge, integrating and linking ideas and analysing and evaluating texts (ACELY1692)
Navigate and read texts for specific purposes applying appropriate text processing strategies, for example predicting and confirming, monitoring meaning, skimming and scanning (ACELY1702)