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1.2.1 Reading for Comprehension

Indigenous Languages · Grade 9 · 2 lessons in the design

What this covers

  • Reading strategies: pre-reading, during reading and after reading
  • Comprehension questions: direct and inferential
  • Vocabulary related to community heroes and heroines
  • Summarising a section of a text

What you will be able to do

  • outline reading strategies for use in a given text
  • answer comprehension questions from a text for information
  • embrace the use of appropriate comprehension skills for lifelong learning

Key questions

“How should you read for comprehension?”

“Why are community heroes and heroines important in society?”

Lessons

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  1. Reading for comprehension
    40 min · 1 practice tasks · quiz
    Use pre-reading, during-reading and after-reading steps to understand a text on a community heroine.
  2. Words, spelling and summary
    40 min · 1 practice tasks · quiz
    Infer word meaning from context, hold a spelling-bee mini-contest, and summarise a section of a text.