Active Reading Comprehension Strategies

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🎯 WALT & Success Criteria

We Are Learning To:

• Use comprehension strategies actively to understand and analyse texts

• Use textual evidence to support inferences and personal interpretations

• Participate effectively in structured discussions about texts

• Reflect on the reading process and apply self-monitoring strategies

1. Which success criteria will you focus on most today? (Tick one)

I can identify explicit and implicit meanings in texts

I can support my ideas with evidence from the text

I can contribute to group discussions effectively

I can use rereading and visualising to improve understanding

📚 Part 1: Pre-Reading Strategies

2. Look at the title, images, and first paragraph of your text. What THREE predictions can you make?

3. What prior knowledge do you have about this topic? Connect it to your own experiences.

4. Based on your preview, what questions do you hope this text will answer?

🔍 Part 2: Active Reading Annotation

5. As you read, use these annotation symbols. Tick the ones you used:

⭐ = Important idea or main point

? = Confusing or unclear

! = Surprising or interesting

➡️ = Connects to something I know

💡 = Inference or conclusion I'm making

6. Choose ONE word from the text that was challenging. Use context clues to determine its meaning:

Word: _________________ Context clues: _________________________________

My definition: _________________________________________________________

7. Write one EXPLICIT fact from the text and one IMPLICIT meaning you inferred:

Explicit (directly stated): _______________________________________________

Implicit (inferred by me): _______________________________________________

💭 Part 3: Deep Thinking & Extension

8. Complete this inference equation with evidence from the text:

Text evidence: _______________________________________ + My knowledge: _______________________________________

= My inference: ___________________________________________________________________________

9. Creative Challenge: Rewrite a key scene from a different character's perspective. How would their thoughts and feelings change the story?

10. Extension Activity: Create a discussion question that would challenge your classmates to think deeply about this text.

11. Self-Assessment: Which reading strategy helped you most today and why?

Active Reading Comprehension Strategies

Active Reading Comprehension Strategies

🎯 WALT & Success Criteria

📚 Part 1: Pre-Reading Strategies

🔍 Part 2: Active Reading Annotation

💭 Part 3: Deep Thinking & Extension

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