Year 3 Summarising Unit | Reading Worksheets, Games & Assessment

Year 3 Summarising Unit | Reading Worksheets, Games & Assessment

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Year 3 Summarising Unit | Reading Worksheets, Games & Assessment

Year 3 Summarising Unit | Reading Worksheets, Games & Assessment

$4.99

Curriculum

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Australian Curriculum v9.0
AC9E3LY05 — opens in a new tab use comprehension strategies when listening and viewing to build literal and inferred meaning, and begin to evaluate texts by drawing on a growing knowledge of context, text structures and language features
Australian Curriculum v8.4
ACELY1680 — opens in a new tab Use comprehension strategies to build literal and inferred meaning and begin to evaluate texts by drawing on a growing knowledge of context, text structures and language features
Victorian Curriculum 2.0
VC2E3LY10 — opens in a new tab use comprehension strategies, such as visualising, predicting, connecting, summarising, monitoring and questioning, to analyse texts by drawing on a growing knowledge of context, text structures and language features to build literal and inferred meanings
New South Wales
EN2-OLC-01 — opens in a new tab communicates with familiar audiences for social and learning purposes, by interacting, understanding and presenting
EN2-VOCAB-01 — opens in a new tab builds knowledge and use of Tier 1, Tier 2 and Tier 3 vocabulary through interacting, wide reading and writing, and by defining and analysing words
EN2-RECOM-01 — opens in a new tab reads and comprehends texts for wide purposes using knowledge of text structures and language, and by monitoring comprehension
EN2-UARL-01 — opens in a new tab identifies and describes how ideas are represented in literature and strategically uses similar representations when creating texts
Western Australia
WA3ELYA3 — opens in a new tab Use comprehension strategies, such as visualising, predicting, connecting, summarising, monitoring and questioning when listening, reading and viewing to build literal and inferred meaning, and begin to evaluate texts by drawing on a growing knowledge of context, text structures and language features
New Zealand
NZ-Y3-ENG-R-C-V-1 — opens in a new tab use knowledge of context clues, prefixes, and root words to understand new vocabulary in texts that are read to them
NZ-Y3-ENG-R-C-CM-1 — opens in a new tab monitor their understanding of a range of texts and repair meaning by adjusting reading speed to accommodate complexity, rereading, visualising, checking, decoding, and asking and answering questions of the text
NZ-Y3-ENG-R-CA-CR-1 — opens in a new tab make connections within and between texts and their own knowledge of topics, their experiences, and their knowledge of the world discuss differences and similarities in how texts are interpreted or viewed respond to texts by sharing opinions and personal thoughts and feelings about the ideas in texts.
United Kingdom
UK-LKS2-ENG-R-C — opens in a new tab Pupils should be taught to: develop positive attitudes to reading, and an understanding of what they read, by: listening to and discussing a wide range of fiction, poetry, plays, non-fiction and reference books or textbooks reading books that are structured in different ways and reading for a range of purposes using dictionaries to check the meaning of words that they have read increasing their familiarity with a wide range of books, including fairy stories, myths and legends, and retelling some of these orally identifying themes and conventions in a wide range of books preparing poems and play scripts to read aloud and to perform, showing understanding through intonation, tone, volume and action discussing words and phrases that capture the reader’s interest and imagination recognising some different forms of poetry [for example, free verse, narrative poetry] understand what they read, in books they can read independently, by: checking that the text makes sense to them, discussing their understanding, and explaining the meaning of words in context asking questions to improve their understanding of a text drawing inferences such as inferring characters’ feelings, thoughts and motives from their actions, and justifying inferences with evidence predicting what might happen from details stated and implied identifying main ideas drawn from more than 1 paragraph and summarising these identifying how language, structure, and presentation contribute to meaning retrieve and record information from non-fiction participate in discussion about both books that are read to them and those they can read for themselves, taking turns and listening to what others say
UK-LKS2-ENG-W-C — opens in a new tab Pupils should be taught to: plan their writing by: discussing writing similar to that which they are planning to write in order to understand and learn from its structure, vocabulary and grammar discussing and recording ideas draft and write by: composing and rehearsing sentences orally (including dialogue), progressively building a varied and rich vocabulary and an increasing range of sentence structures English appendix 2 organising paragraphs around a theme in narratives, creating settings, characters and plot in non-narrative material, using simple organisational devices [for example, headings and sub-headings] evaluate and edit by: assessing the effectiveness of their own and others’ writing and suggesting improvements proposing changes to grammar and vocabulary to improve consistency, including the accurate use of pronouns in sentences proofread for spelling and punctuation errors read their own writing aloud to a group or the whole class, using appropriate intonation and controlling the tone and volume so that the meaning is clear
US Common Core (CCSS)
Texas (TEKS)
Ontario

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Help Year 3 students identify main ideas, select key details and write clear summaries in their own words. Students practise summarising fiction and non-fiction texts, using the 5Ws + H, combining important information and leaving out less relevant details.

What's Included

  • 16-page unit plan PDF
  • Editable 15-slide PowerPoint presentation
  • Editable 10-question PowerPoint quiz (22 slides)
  • Colour Summarising Toolkit classroom display
  • Two colour games and activities: Summary Mission Board and Keep, Cut, Combine
  • Six black-and-white student worksheets
  • Summarising Checkpoint assessment
  • Worksheet answer pages where meaningful
  • A4 landscape five-level marking rubric

Learning Focus

  • Identify main ideas and key details
  • Summarise fiction and non-fiction texts
  • Use the 5Ws + H to organise information
  • Retell clearly, briefly and accurately in students' own words

Classroom Use

Use the presentation for explicit teaching and modelling, then reinforce learning through guided discussion, games, worksheets and the final assessment. The editable PowerPoint files can be adapted for your class.

Formats: PDF and editable PowerPoint. Answer pages are included where meaningful.

This is a digital resource. No physical item will be shipped.

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