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1.2.1 Reading comprehension

Indigenous Languages · Grade 7 · 2 lessons in the design

What this covers

  • Direct and inferential questions from texts on indigenous homes
  • Vocabulary building: context clues and the dictionary
  • Word bank of homestead words in the learner’s indigenous language

What you will be able to do

  • respond to direct and inferential questions from a text for comprehension
  • use the dictionary to find the meaning of vocabulary used in texts
  • appreciate indigenous home designs for indigenous knowledge acquisition

Key questions

“How should we read a text to get accurate information?”

“Why is it important to showcase our indigenous homes?”

Lessons

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  1. Direct and inferential questions
    40 min · 1 practice tasks · quiz
    Read a homestead passage in your language and answer questions that sit on the page and questions that need clues.
  2. Word bank and dictionary for homestead texts
    40 min · 1 practice tasks · quiz
    Build a homestead word bank in your language, infer meaning from context, then check a dictionary.