This useful resource is part of the comprehensive unit plan, Asking Questions. The questions stars, which can be printed in coloured cardboard and stuck on paddle pop sticks, act as great question prompts to strengthen comprehension when reading. The questions starts include questions for before, during and after reading and would be a great whole class or small group activity.
Draws on an increasing range of skills and strategies to fluently read, view and comprehend a range of texts on less familiar topics in different media and technologies
Identifies how language use in their own writing differs according to their purpose, audience and subject matter
Understands and effectively uses Tier 1, taught Tier 2 and Tier 3 vocabulary to extend and elaborate ideas
Comprehends independently read texts that require sustained reading by activating background and word knowledge, connecting and understanding sentences and whole text, and monitoring for meaning
Understands and responds to literature by creating texts using similar structures, intentional language choices and features appropriate to audience and purpose
Uses initial and extended phonics, including vowel digraphs, trigraphs to decode and encode words when reading and creating texts
Sustains reading unseen texts with automaticity and prosody and self-corrects errors
Use comprehension strategies such as visualising, predicting, connecting, summarising and questioning when listening, viewing and reading to build literal and inferred meaning by drawing on vocabulary and growing knowledge of context and text structures
Identify the purpose and audience of imaginative, informative and persuasive texts
Read texts with phrasing and fluency, using phonic and word knowledge, and monitoring meaning by re-reading and self-correcting
Use comprehension strategies such as visualising, predicting, connecting, summarising, monitoring and questioning to build literal and inferred meaning
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
Identify the audience of imaginative, informative and persuasive texts
Read less predictable texts with phrasing and fluency by combining contextual, semantic, grammatical and phonic knowledge using text processing strategies, for example monitoring meaning, predicting, rereading and self-correcting
Use comprehension strategies to build literal and inferred meaning and begin to analyse texts by drawing on growing knowledge of context, language and visual features and print and multimodal text structures
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
Read familiar and some unfamiliar texts with phrasing and fluency by combining phonic, semantic, contextual and grammatical knowledge using text processing strategies, including monitoring meaning, predicting, rereading and self-correcting
Use comprehension strategies to build literal and inferred meaning and begin to analyse texts by drawing on growing knowledge of context, language and visual features and print and multimodal text structures