Comprehension text – Wonderful Wales and Spectacular Scotland – Year 3 digital unit

Description

This is a 7-page unit from the Developing Comprehension skills and word knowledge series that covers:

Text

Listen to and contribute to conversations and discussions to share information and ideas and negotiate in collaborative situations (ACELY1676)
Understand that paragraphs are a key organisational feature of written texts (ACELA1479)

Comprehension

Read an increasing range of different types of texts by combining contextual, semantic, grammatical and phonic knowledge, using text processing strategies, for example monitoring, predicting, confirming, re-reading, reading on and self-correcting (ACELY1679)
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)
Draw connections between personal experiences and the worlds of texts, and share responses with others (ACELT1596)

Word knowledge

Know how to use common prefixes and suffixes, and generalisations for adding a suffix to a base word (ACELA1827)
Understand how to use letter-sound relationships and less common letter patterns to spell words (ACELA1485)
Learn extended and technical vocabulary and ways of expressing opinion including modal verbs and adverbs (ACELA1484)
Understand how to apply knowledge of letter-sound relationships, syllables, and blending and segmenting to fluently read and write multisyllabic words with more complex letter patterns (ACELA1826)

Links to other curriculum areas

Humanities and Social Sciences – Geography

The similarities and differences between places in terms of their type of settlement, demographic characteristics and the lives of the people who live there, and people’s perceptions of these places (ACHASSK069)

Each individual text type covers a number of content descriptions across the Language, Literature and Literacy strands of Australian Curriculum English. The detailed lesson plans save valuable planning time and allow for individual student differences. Use all, or some, of the ideas provided to cater to the needs of your class.

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