Reading and Verifying Evidence

Name:

Date:

📖 Part 1: Read, Note and Read the Visual

WALT: use questions, brief notes and evidence to understand an informational text and statistical visual.

Success criteria: I can find key information, record evidence briefly and explain what a graph shows and does not show.

1. Use the routine: Preview – Question – Read – Note – Summarise – Check. Write one question you need answered before accepting a statistic.

2. Read the supplied extract. Complete the notes with brief words or phrases, not copied sentences.

Question

What is the main idea?

What evidence supports it?

What important term or idea needs checking?

Brief evidence or note

3. Use T-L-S-C to read the supplied population graphic. Write what you can identify.

T — Title: What is the visual about?

L — Labels: What do the axes, groups or age bands label?

S — Scale: What units or intervals are used?

C — Categories and source: What is being compared, and who produced the data?

4. Write one accurate observation using the frame: “The graph indicates…”

5. Write one limitation. What does this population graphic not show by itself?

✏️ Part 2: Analyse, Verify and Summarise

6. Identify the purpose of the extract.

to inform or explain

to entertain

to advertise

to instruct

7. Describe the paragraph structure. Use: context → evidence → implications.

8. Record two language choices and explain their effect. You may consider precise or cautious terms such as projections, based on, interventions or culturally safe.

Language choice 1 and effect:

Language choice 2 and effect:

9. Source-verification checklist: check each question you can answer from the extract or visual.

Who produced the information?

What is the publication date?

What population is represented?

What time period is covered?

Is the measure clear?

What is the original data source?

What limitations or missing context matter?

10. Complete the final response.

Summary: Write 2–3 sentences using only the most important information. Do not add an unsupported cause.

Supported claim: Make one claim and include evidence from the extract or visual.

Further investigation: Write one question you would investigate next.

Reading support: You may listen to an audio or text-to-speech version, use an enlarged copy, read with a partner, or respond orally before writing. Use respectful wording about First Nations peoples and focus on systems and evidence, not judgements about individuals.

Extension: Compare the supplied visual with a second appropriately sourced statistic. Note differences in population, date, measure and purpose before writing a qualified comparison.