Where's The Proof? (Reading Skills NAPLAN)

Australian Curriculum content descriptions:

Year 3 English:

• 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 outcomes: EN2-4A.

General capabilities: Literacy, Critical and Creative Thinking.

Relevant parts of Year 3 English achievement standards: Students analyse and explain literal and implied information from a variety of texts. They describe how events, characters and settings in texts are depicted and explain their own responses to them. They listen and ask questions to clarify content.

Unit of work: Faber-Castell – NAPLAN Preparation.

Time required: 60 mins.

Level of teacher scaffolding: Low – As the teacher explicitly models skills that students require for the lesson, the level of support required should be minimal. Students who find work of a Year 3 standard difficult may require some additional support.

• Projector to display a presentation to the class
• Pens or pencils to write with
• Connector Pens and Colour Grip pencils to colour with
• Faber-Castell Connector Pens Flyer, Example Worksheet
• To print: Student Worksheet A, Student Worksheet B, Colouring Castle Template
• Student Worksheet A Answers
• Student Worksheet B Answers

This lesson is designed to build students’ competencies in the following skills:

• Communication
• Creativity

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