Activity: Where’s The Proof? – NAPLAN-Style Reading Skills – Year 3

Quick summary: In this lesson, students will practise the key comprehension skill of finding evidence to support interpretations of a text. They will read an information flyer and apply specific strategies to build literal and inferred meaning of the text. Students will then apply their understanding of the text in a creative colouring activity. This lesson is designed to provide valuable practice for NAPLAN, the national literacy test held in Years 3, 5, 7 and 9*. 

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Learning intention:

• Students will provide evidence from the text to support their answers to comprehension questions.

21st century skills:

Australian Curriculum Mapping

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.

Topic: NAPLAN Preparation.

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.

Resources required: 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.

Keywords: NAPLAN, English, understanding, comprehension, evidence, proof.

*This lesson plan is not an officially endorsed publication of NAPLAN’s creators and administrators – the ACARA body – but is designed to provide practise for the Australian Curriculum’s compulsory NAPLAN testing scheme.

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