Australian Curriculum English – Literacy – Comprehension and writing – Foundation

Your students’ literacy skills will flourish with each level in this seven-book series. A wide range of funny, dramatic, sad and scary stories will have students exercising their imagination and developing their ability to read and comprehend different texts. This series focuses on the sub-strands of Interpreting, analysing, evaluating (Comprehension) and Creating texts (Writing).

Since English is a teaching and learning area where components are interrelated, links to sub-strands of the Language and Literature strands and other sub-strands of Literacy are provided. The series emphasises the following threads:

• Purpose and audience
• Reading processes
• Comprehension strategies
• Analysing and evaluating texts – Year 6 only
• Creating texts (Editing and Use of software have been included but Handwriting has not.)

Features:

• reading activities
• comprehension activities
• writing activities
• teaching points
• a variety of imaginative, informative and persuasive texts
• additional activities
• answers
• content descriptions and elaborations for each set of four pages
• comprehensive Australian Curriculum English links