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Year 4 · English · Reading

Comprehension strategies

Make inferences with evidence, find main ideas and key details, and summarise information texts.

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  • 3D lesson: Comprehension strategies — Find clues and evidence for inferences, pick out main ideas and key details, build new words from prefixes, crack word meanings from context and spot the sense words that paint a picture, with Kiri.
  • Teacher presentation — slides to put on the projector.
  • Worksheets at three levels — Tūī (support), Kererū (core) and Kea (extension), each with an answer key on the last page.
  • Online practice — assign it to your class in the Crateclass classroom and the results come back by themselves.

Written for Te Mātaiaho, Phase 2 (Years 4–6), with New Zealand places, money and native birds.

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