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Predicting the Past

Predicting the Past
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Description

This resource includes differentiated reading comprehension worksheets focusing on key historical figures and their impact on Australia's colonies. It features prediction-based questions, an anticipation guide, and follow-up activities. The worksheets are tailored for upper, middle, and lower primary students, supporting diverse learning needs.
 

Suitable for
  • Relief Teachers
Lesson Structure
  • Individual Activity
  • Rotations / Group Work
  • Class Activity
Curriculum Codes

AC9E5LY04 9

Navigate and read texts for specific purposes, monitoring meaning using strategies such as skimming, scanning and confirming

AC9E5LY05 9

Use comprehension strategies such as visualising, predicting, connecting, summarising, monitoring and questioning to build literal and inferred meaning to evaluate information and ideas

AC9HS5K03 9

The role of a significant individual or group, including First Nations Australians and those who migrated to Australia, in the development of events in an Australian colony

ACELY1702 8.4

Navigate and read texts for specific purposes applying appropriate text processing strategies, for example predicting and confirming, monitoring meaning, skimming and scanning

ACELY1703 8.4

Use comprehension strategies to analyse information, integrating and linking ideas from a variety of print and digital sources

ACHASSK110 8.4

The role that a significant individual or group played in shaping a colony

ACHASSK109 8.4

The reasons people migrated to Australia and the experiences and contributions of a particular migrant group within a colony

EN3-3A old

Uses an integrated range of skills, strategies and knowledge to read, view and comprehend a wide range of texts in different media and technologies

HT3-1 old

Describes and explains the significance of people, groups, places and events to the development of Australia

HT3-2 old

Describes and explains different experiences of people living in Australia over time

HT3-3 old

Identifies change and continuity and describes the causes and effects of change on Australian society

HT3-4 old

Describes and explains the struggles for rights and freedoms in Australia, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples

HT3-5 old

Applies a variety of skills of historical inquiry and communication

EN3-VOCAB-01 new

Extends Tier 2 and Tier 3 vocabulary through interacting, wide reading and writing, morphological analysis and generating precise definitions for specific contexts

EN3-RECOM-01 new

Fluently reads and comprehends texts for wide purposes, analysing text structures and language, and by monitoring comprehension

EN3-UARL-01 new

Analyses representations of ideas in literature through narrative, character, imagery, symbol and connotation, and adapts these representations when creating texts

EN3-UARL-02 new

Analyses representations of ideas in literature through genre and theme that reflect perspective and context, argument and authority, and adapts these representations when creating texts

EN3-OLC-01 new

Communicates to wide audiences with social and cultural awareness, by interacting and presenting, and by analysing and evaluating for understanding

VCELY318

Navigate and read imaginative, informative and persuasive texts by interpreting structural features, including tables of content, glossaries, chapters, headings and subheadings and applying appropriate text processing strategies, including monitoring meaning, skimming and scanning

VCELY319

Use comprehension strategies to analyse information, integrating and linking ideas from a variety of print and digital sources

VCHHK092

The role that a significant individual or group played in shaping and changing a colony

VCHHK091

The causes and the reasons why people migrated to Australia from Europe and Asia, and the perspectives, experiences and contributions of a particular migrant group within a colony

VCHHC082

Sequence significant events and lifetimes of people in chronological order to create a narrative to explain the developments in Australia’s colonial past and the causes and effects of Federation on its people

VCHHC087

Explain the significance of an event and an individual or group that influenced change in the Australian colonies and in Australian society since Federation

Differentiation

Modifications

Students complete Blaxland, Lawson and Wentworth- 1 Star
 

EXTENSIONS

Students complete John Oxley- 2 Stars
Students complete Charles Sturt- 3 Stars

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