ACSF Reading 3.04 Selects and applies a range of reading strategies as appropriate to purpose and text type


READING LEVEL 3
3.04Selects and applies a range of reading strategies as appropriate to purpose and text type
SUPPORTCONTEXTTEXTTASK COMPLEXITY

Moderate support

Advice and modelling available

Range of familiar contexts

Some less familiar/routine contexts

Some specialisation in routine contexts

Routine texts

May include some unfamiliar elements and embedded information

Includes some specialised vocabulary

Tasks include a number of steps within the 1 task,  eg: sequencing, applying basic inferencing, extrapolation and integration

PERFORMANCE FEATURES INCLUDE:

Strategies
  • Identifies some explicit questions to be answered by reading
  • Selects from a range of strategies to aid comprehension, e.g. self-corrects, reads aloud, reads ahead, underlines, makes notes in margin
  • Skims and scans to locate content
  • Uses a range of word identification strategies, including phonic and visual letter patterns, syllabification, word origins
Textual clues
  • Uses a range of textual cues such as headings, paragraphing and punctuation to predict content and as an aid to comprehension
Grammar
  • Comprehends some complex and compound sentences
  • Comprehends dependent clauses introduced by words such as although, when, if, while
  • Recognises devices used to refer to words or phrases used in previous clauses/sentences
  • Recognises introductory phrases which indicate that an opinion or a fact is being offered
Vocabulary
  • Recognises and comprehends common idioms
  • Comprehends some specialised terminology in routine texts
  • Uses a range of support resources to determine meaning of unknown words


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