Australian Curriculum English – Literacy – Comprehension and writing – Year 5

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. Focusing on the sub-strands of Interpreting, analysing, evaluating (Comprehension) and Creating texts (Writing), each level in this seven-book series will see your students’ literacy skills flourish.

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