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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
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 (Skills: Literacy, Critical and Creative Thinking)
- using word identification, self-monitoring and self-correcting strategies (Skills: Literacy, Critical and Creative Thinking, Personal and Social Capability)
- using research skills including identifying research purpose, locating texts, gathering and organising information, evaluating and using information (Skills: Literacy, Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Capability, Critical and Creative Thinking)
- identifying and using texts for a wide range of purposes, selecting texts by favourite authors and trying new ones (Skills: Literacy, Critical and Creative Thinking)
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Fluency Reading Passage - The New Pet (Year 6)
A fiction text to use when assessing students' fluency.
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Main Idea or Supporting Detail? – Sorting Activity
An activity for students to determine which of 2 related facts is a main idea and which is a supporting detail.
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Five Wonders Theme Park: Takeout Takeover – Project
A project for students to create a menu and food truck model for Five Wonders Theme Park based on the Frida's Fiesta menu.
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Comic – Peer Politics: In Sync – Comprehension Worksheet
A comprehension worksheet for a comic about encouraging people and their passions regardless of their gender.
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Frida's Fiesta: Layout Confusion – Projects
A project where students apply their measurement and fraction knowledge to determine where furniture goes in a restaurant.
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10 Fascinating Facts Worksheet – The Global Seed Vault
A comprehension worksheet for a magazine article about the global seed vault.
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Land Rights Word Search - Upper Primary
A printable Land Rights Word Search worksheet for your upper primary school students to complete.
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Land Rights Timeline Worksheet
A printable Land Rights Timeline worksheet for your students to complete in your classroom.
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Land Rights Crossword
A printable Land Rights Crossword worksheet for your students to complete in your classroom.
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Australia Day Cloze Worksheet
A cloze activity based on information about Australia Day.
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Tropical Cyclone Cloze Worksheet
A cloze worksheet about tropical cyclones.
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MP3 Players and Your Hearing Cloze Worksheet
A cloze worksheet about MP3 players and hearing.
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Giant Squid Cloze Worksheet
A cloze worksheet about the giant squid.
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Human Histories: Amazing Artists – Comprehension Worksheet
A comprehension worksheet for a magazine article about some amazing artists.
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Land Rights Jumbled Words
A Land Rights jumbled words printable worksheet for your students to complete in your classroom.
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NAIDOC Week Connection to Country Crossword Puzzle Worksheet
A NAIDOC Week Connection to Country crossword puzzle worksheet to use with your students.
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NAIDOC Week My Country Worksheet - Middle/Upper Primary
A NAIDOC Week "My Country" worksheet suitable for middle/upper primary school students.
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NAIDOC Week 2020 Student Printable
A printable student information sheet to provide context for NAIDOC Week 2020.
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Books for Sharing Indigenous Perspectives - Poster
A list of Indigenous storybooks for the classroom recommended by Aboriginal education organisation, Wingaru Education.
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Literacy Tasks - Posters
5 Literacy Task posters and 1 Guide poster.
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Readers' Theatre - Teaching Resource Pack
A comprehensive pack of 33 readers' theatre scripts, catering to a range of age groups and ability levels.
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NAIDOC Week 2021 Teaching Resource Pack
A NAIDOC Week 2021 teaching resource pack that contains activities, worksheets and information for your students.
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NAIDOC Week Land Rights Teaching Resource Pack
Wingaru Education has put together a timeline of Aboriginal land rights events. From the time of Cook’s intrusive exploration and the subsequent invasion by the First Fleet, land has been taken from Aboriginal People against their will. There are a number of ways to delve into this topic with your class.
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Experimenting with Poetry Unit Plan - Year 5 and Year 6
This English unit addresses the common elements of poetry and explores how these may be applied to shape poems, limericks, odes and simple ballads.
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Applying Reading Comprehension Strategies Unit Plan
This English unit is designed to explicitly teach the reading comprehension strategies of activating prior knowledge, making connections, questioning, monitoring, predicting, inferring, visualising and summarising to upper primary students, with a focus on literary texts.
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Writing Biographical Texts Unit Plan
This English unit addresses the purpose, structure and language features of the biography text type.
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Summarising
A 60 minute lesson in which students will learn and apply the reading comprehension strategy of summarising.
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Making Connections
A 60 minute lesson in which students will learn and apply the reading comprehension strategy of making connections.
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Idioms
A 60 minute lesson in which students will explore some commonly used idioms.
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Structure, Rhyme and Rhythm
A 60 minute lesson in which students will identify and investigate structure, rhyme and rhythm in poetry.
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Visualising
A 60 minute lesson in which students will learn and apply the reading comprehension strategy of visualising.
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Questioning
A 60 minute lesson in which students will learn and apply the reading comprehension strategy of questioning.