Hydro Tasmania - Water Cycle (NAPLAN Reading Practice)

Hydro Tasmania - Water Cycle (NAPLAN Reading Practice)

Lesson 1 of 9 in this unit

  • Primary
  • Year 3 - 4
  • English
  • Environmental
  • Energy
  • ...

Lesson summary

Students will complete a reading task to learn how Hydro Tasmania utilise Nature’s water cycle in their energy production process.

Learning goals:

  • This lesson is designed to provide valuable practice for NAPLAN* – the national literacy tests held in Years 3 and 5 of Primary school. It features reading and visual texts with comprehension and language questions that require students to find facts, interpret meaning and apply text-processing strategies.

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Curriculum mapping

Australian curriculum content descriptions: 

Year 3 English:

  • Recognise high-frequency sight words (ACELA1486) 
  • 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)

Syllabus outcomesEN2-4A

Cross-curriculum priority: Sustainability OI.2.

Resources required

  • Student Worksheet – one copy per student or a written or emailed link to the online Student Worksheet version
  • Internet access (optional)

Additional info

This lesson has been developed in partnership with  
Hydro Tasmania.

Hydro Tasmania has been at the forefront of clean energy innovation for one hundred years. It is Australia’s largest producer of clean energy – generating hydro and wind power – and the largest water manager. Hydro Tasmania has 55 major dams, operates 30 hydropower stations and has built some of Australia’s largest wind farms.

Hydro Tasmania also sells energy in the National Electricity Market through its retail business Momentum Energy, and sells its expertise internationally through its consulting business Entura.

Visit the Hydro Tasmania website to learn how the business is working towards Australia’s clean energy future.

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