Students learn to notice whether a sentence is giving evidence, sharing a viewpoint or showing emotion.
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Year 4 · Reading
Reading and viewing
Read complete passages, infer meaning, compare texts and explore print, digital and visual texts.
100 questions and practical tasks · 10 practice sets
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Set 1
Questions 1–10
literal information · inference · sequence · linking ideas · summarising · locating details · reading a record · evaluating evidence · cause and purpose
10 questions & tasks → Set 2Questions 11–20
text organisation · vocabulary in context · connecting steps · sequence · literal information · audience and purpose · interpreting advice · procedure structure · identifying a viewpoint · reason and counterargument
10 questions & tasks → Set 3Questions 21–30
inference · persuasive language · audience · persuasive structure · tracking a change · literal meaning · comparing viewpoints · prediction from evidence · interpreting a conclusion · text features
10 questions & tasks → Set 4Questions 31–40
comparing information · cause · careful reading · drawing a conclusion · main idea · use of evidence · distinguishing information · cause and effect · locating details · conditional meaning
10 questions & tasks → Set 5Questions 41–50
reading efficiently · evaluating a conclusion · literal information · linking facts · evidence and claims · limits of information · context clues · questioning · combining clues · inferred meaning
10 questions & tasks → Set 6Questions 51–60
sensory meaning · visualising · summarising · monitoring understanding · comparing agreement · comparing disagreement · recommendation and evidence · synthesising · fact and opinion · evaluating viewpoints
10 questions & tasks → Set 7Questions 61–70
purpose across time · language across time · comparing language · comparing story information · layout across time · source awareness · digital navigation · action labels · audience
10 questions & tasks → Set 8Questions 71–80
readability · images and text · visual composition
10 questions & tasks → Set 9Questions 81–90
reading fluency · inference with evidence · summarising · questioning · predicting · monitoring and rereading
10 questions & tasks → Set 10Questions 91–100
visualising · evaluating for a purpose · connecting · texts across time · text organisation · moving images and sound
10 questions & tasks →Curriculum links
These activities map to the following Victorian Curriculum English Version 2.0 Level 4 content descriptions.
Students learn that different texts are built in different ways, such as procedures, reports, narratives and explanations.
Students learn to link ideas with words that show time, condition and topic relationships.
Students learn how websites and digital texts use layout and navigation tools to help readers find information.
Students learn how images, sound and layout guide attention and add meaning in visual texts.
Students learn how writers use devices such as repetition, rhyme, simile, alliteration and playful grammar to create meaning.
Students combine sound knowledge, meaning and grammar to read accurately and fix mistakes.
Students compare texts from different times and notice how ideas or events are represented.
Students identify features that match text type, purpose and audience.
Students use active reading strategies to understand stated and implied meaning.
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