Year 7 · English · Reading
Thinking critically about texts
Tell fact from opinion, identify purpose and audience, judge whether a source is credible and notice how texts represent people and ideas.
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- 3D lesson: Thinking critically about texts — Split facts from opinions, find the purpose and audience, build a credibility checklist and test sources, then see how one word can change how people are represented.
- 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 3 (Years 7–8), with New Zealand places, money and native birds.
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