Year 1 English · AC9E1LY05

Use comprehension strategies such as visualising, predicting, connecting, summarising and questioning

use comprehension strategies such as visualising, predicting, connecting, summarising and questioning when listening, viewing and reading to build literal and inferred…

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1. Outcome Overview & Core Concepts

Comprehension grows when readers visualise, predict, connect, summarise and question using vocabulary, context and text structure.

Learning target: use comprehension strategies such as visualising, predicting, connecting, summarising and questioning when listening, viewing and reading to build literal and inferred meaning by drawing on vocabulary and growing knowledge of context and text structures

Big idea: Use strategies to build literal and inferred meaning

Learning routine: Preview → Predict → Read/listen → Connect → Question → Summarise

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2. Subject-Specific Content & Key Examples

Use a strategy on purpose

predictvisualiseconnectquestionsummarise

Worked example

Question: If a character packs a raincoat and umbrella, you can infer it may rain because those objects are used in wet weather.

Support thinking with text clues

literal: in the textinferred: text clue + thinkingsummary: main idea

Prediction stop

Pause before the ending and predict with evidence.

Guided practice

  1. Prediction stop — Pause before the ending and predict with evidence.
    I think... because...
  2. Picture in mind — Describe what you visualise from a sentence.
    I see...
  3. Question and answer — Ask one literal and one inferred question.
    Who...? Why might...?
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AC9E1LY05 - Use comprehension strategies such as visualising, predicting, connecting, summarising and questioning when listening, viewing and reading to build literal and inferred meaning by drawing on vocabulary and growing knowledge of context and text structures
Example 1

Use a strategy on purpose predict visualise connect question summarise

Example 2

Worked example Question: If a character packs a raincoat and umbrella, you can infer it may rain because those objects are used in wet weather.

Example 3

Support thinking with text clues literal: in the text inferred: text clue + thinking summary: main idea

Example 4

Prediction stop Pause before the ending and predict with evidence.

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Curriculum Coverage & Elaborations

The content description is the required target. The elaborations below are taught as examples and contexts, not as disconnected checklist wording.

  • E1: identifying information and details from spoken informative texts
  • E2: building topic knowledge and learning new vocabulary before and during reading
  • E3: making predictions from the cover, from illustrations and at points in the text before reading on, and confirming and adjusting understanding after reading
  • E4: drawing inferences and explaining inferences using clues from the text
  • E5: making connections with existing knowledge and personal experiences
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Revision Notes

  • Remember: Use strategies to build literal and inferred meaning
  • Use the routine: Preview → Predict → Read/listen → Connect → Question → Summarise
  • Before answering: point to the clue in the spoken words, written sentence, image, page layout or text purpose.
  • Self-check: change the example slightly and see whether the same reasoning still works.
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3. Common Student Misconceptions

  • Prediction with no evidence: Use a clue from the text.
  • Summary too detailed: Say the main idea, not every small event.
  • Inference as guess: Combine clue plus thinking.

Practice Thought & Formative Assessment

Use a fresh, code-aligned example. The student should show the exact word, sound, sentence, image feature, audience clue or text evidence that supports the answer.

Quick checks

  • What is a prediction?
  • What is an inference?
  • Ask one question about a text.
  • Summarise a familiar story in one sentence.

Mastery evidence

  • Predict with evidence
  • Visualise
  • Connect
  • Question
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1. Outcome Overview & Core Concepts

Comprehension grows when readers visualise, predict, connect, summarise and question using vocabulary, context and text structure.

Learning target: use comprehension strategies such as visualising, predicting, connecting, summarising and questioning when listening, viewing and reading to build literal and inferred meaning by drawing on vocabulary and growing knowledge of context and text structures

Big idea: Use strategies to build literal and inferred meaning

Learning routine: Preview → Predict → Read/listen → Connect → Question → Summarise

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