Series: Reading Conventions Author: Lauren O'Brien ISBN: 9780987127150 Format: Paperback Age: Primary Developing Inferential Reading Skills and Australian Curriculum Focuses Reading Conventions is an engaging series designed to assist teachers with improving students’ reading and comprehension skills. It has a specific focus on inferencing. The aim of Reading Conventions is to systematically provide all students with interesting and achievable activities, based on fulfilling national comprehension and reading requirements. Every unit has a central focus built around persuasive, imaginative or informative texts. These focuses add another dimension to the series by specifically targeting Australian Curriculum content. Metacognitive strategies, curriculum focuses and features: Predicting – making predictions about texts/text endings Visualising – creating mental images Summarising – reviewing meaning Making connections – students’ own experiences/prior knowledge Questioning – literal, inferential, interpretive and critical Making connections between print and images Monitoring – commenting on things learned Monitoring – re-reading and reading on to make decisions about unknown words Finding the main idea and supporting details Story elements – characters, setting and plot Identifying the author’s purpose/point of view NAPLAN skills Analytical images Multimodal texts Pull-out answer section Types of texts imaginative persuasive informative Why teach comprehension? Reading is fun, it's relaxing, and it is the building block of education. Comprehension is the essential goal of each and every reading task. Reading and comprehending exercises lay the foundation of comprehension skills that are essential for a lifetime of learning and pleasure. The more students practise, the more confident and capable they become.
