Planning Documents
Planning Documents
Planning Documents
Achievement
standards
Level 3
Level 4
Level 5
Sharing Resources
Activating prior
knowledge
Assuming genre of
the book - the event
in the book thats
been illustrated
Gives us an idea of
the character(s)
We make a
prediction of what
might happen /
outcome for a
character
- book
covers &
blurbs
- Activity
sheet
Students
come
together
to share
their
inferenc
- activity
sheet from
resource
folder
At Risk
Kroeger
students: Readers need to take what
they know and gather clues
in the text to crack the
meaning of vocabulary. Good
readers also need to
consider the context to
understand what they read.
Model reading the text and
show how you complete the
following:
Rereading
Paying attention to
the words
Looking closely at
the pictures
Using my schema
Taking my time
Wor
d
Word
in
senten
ce
Wha
t we
infe
r it
mea
ns
es and
Wha
strategi
t
es that
helpe
they
d us?
used.
3 Students WALT: infer with text clues Students are to draw up the
read their
Reciprocal
Reading
book
Backgrou
nd
Knowledg
e
Students
sit
together
with
their RR
group
and
share
their
inferenc
es,
explainin
g their
backgrou
nd
knowe
and text
clues
Inferen
ce
- Forming
interpretati
TEXT:
Good readers constantly
revise what they read and
change their mind about a
text.
ons of a
text
activity
sheet
GRADE 4
Term 4 Inferring, Comprehension & Spelling Lessons (focus group Eli &
Alexus)
AusVELS Substrand & Focus
Achievement
standards
Level 1
Level 2
Use comprehension
strategies to build literal
and inferred meaning
about key events, ideas
and information in texts
that they listen to, view
and read by drawing on
growing knowledge of
context, text structures
and language features
Use comprehension
strategies to build literal
and inferred meaning
and begin to analyze
texts by drawing on
growing knowledge of
context, language and
visual features and print
and multimodal text
structures
Level 3
Shari Resource
ng
s
1 War WALT: using all aspects of Students are given a copy of a front cover Explai - book
m Up
activi
ty
using
top
100
used
word
s.
Snak
es
and
ladde
rs
game
.
Assuming genre of
the book What it
is about.
Gives us an idea of
the character(s)
We make a
prediction of what
might happen to
the characters.
n
inferri
ng is
simply
trying
to
work
out
somet
hing
from
the
text
that
hasnt
been
explain
ed yet
and we
covers &
pictures
- Activity
sheet
Inferring
table
are
using
clues
from
the
pictur
es and
text
to help
solve
what
the
book
might
be
about
War
2 m Up
activi
ty
using
top
100
used
word
s
game
s.
Rereading
Paying attention to
the words
Looking closely at
the pictures
Using my schema
Taking my time
Thinking really
hard
As youre reading, ask
students to raise their
hands if they noticed any
unfamiliar words. To
reinforce with the kids,
explain to them that they
are inferring all these
answers based on what
they have seen and their
own knowledge. When you
are satisfied that students
understand, explain to
them that they are going
Mini
whiteboar
d
Reading
book
laptop
http://www.pspb.org/blueribbon/games/dete
ctive/DetectiveGame.html
strategies to infer
Read picture book to
students. Explain and
model how to infer using
schema/prior knowledge
exploring unfamiliar or
unknown words. Creating
Collect Laptop
student Inference/s
tables chema
on
table
inferri
ngand
schema
touse
Follo
wed
by
activi
ty
using
top
100
word
s.
as
the below chart.
making it break. Students are also to
Students are to use their include any unknown or unfamiliar words in assess
ment.
independent reading books the table.
to complete the following
table in order to find
unknown words.
Wo
rd
Word
in
sente
nce
Wh
at
we
inf
er
it
me
ans
Wh
at
help
ed
us?
do caterpillars do?
-What other types of
food might they eat?
After completion of the
book have a discussion
about the literature
Posing questions such
as:
Why might the book
have holes in it?
Has anyone ever
touched a caterpillar?
The
hungry
caterpillar
book
Writing
book
Library
bookof
student
choice