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.
Navigate and read texts for specific purposes, monitoring meaning using strategies such as skimming, scanning and confirming
Use comprehension strategies such as visualising, predicting, connecting, summarising, monitoring and questioning to build literal and inferred meaning to evaluate information and ideas
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
Navigate and read texts for specific purposes applying appropriate text processing strategies, for example predicting and confirming, monitoring meaning, skimming and scanning
Use comprehension strategies to analyse information, integrating and linking ideas from a variety of print and digital sources
The role that a significant individual or group played in shaping a colony
The reasons people migrated to Australia and the experiences and contributions of a particular migrant group within a colony
Uses an integrated range of skills, strategies and knowledge to read, view and comprehend a wide range of texts in different media and technologies
Describes and explains the significance of people, groups, places and events to the development of Australia
Describes and explains different experiences of people living in Australia over time
Identifies change and continuity and describes the causes and effects of change on Australian society
Describes and explains the struggles for rights and freedoms in Australia, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples
Applies a variety of skills of historical inquiry and communication
Extends Tier 2 and Tier 3 vocabulary through interacting, wide reading and writing, morphological analysis and generating precise definitions for specific contexts
Fluently reads and comprehends texts for wide purposes, analysing text structures and language, and by monitoring comprehension
Analyses representations of ideas in literature through narrative, character, imagery, symbol and connotation, and adapts these representations when creating texts
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
Communicates to wide audiences with social and cultural awareness, by interacting and presenting, and by analysing and evaluating for understanding
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
Use comprehension strategies to analyse information, integrating and linking ideas from a variety of print and digital sources
The role that a significant individual or group played in shaping and changing a colony
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
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
Explain the significance of an event and an individual or group that influenced change in the Australian colonies and in Australian society since Federation
Students complete Blaxland, Lawson and Wentworth- 1 Star
Students complete John Oxley- 2 Stars
Students complete Charles Sturt- 3 Stars