Students learn to link ideas with words that show time, condition and topic relationships.
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Year 4 · Reading
Reading and viewing
Read complete passages, infer meaning, compare texts and explore print, digital and visual texts.
86 questions and practical tasks · 9 practice sets · filtered to VC2E4LY09
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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
vocabulary in context · connecting steps · sequence · literal information · interpreting advice · identifying a viewpoint · reason and counterargument · inference · tracking a change · literal meaning
10 questions & tasks → Set 3Questions 21–30
comparing viewpoints · prediction from evidence · interpreting a conclusion · comparing information · cause · careful reading · drawing a conclusion · main idea · use of evidence · distinguishing information
10 questions & tasks → Set 4Questions 31–40
cause and effect · locating details · conditional meaning · evaluating a conclusion · literal information · linking facts · evidence and claims · limits of information · context clues · questioning
10 questions & tasks → Set 5Questions 41–50
combining clues · inferred meaning · sensory meaning · visualising · summarising · monitoring understanding · comparing agreement · comparing disagreement · recommendation and evidence · synthesising
10 questions & tasks → Set 6Questions 51–60
evaluating viewpoints · purpose across time · language across time · comparing language · comparing story information · layout across time · source awareness · digital navigation · action labels
10 questions & tasks → Set 7Questions 61–70
audience · readability · images and text · visual composition
10 questions & tasks → Set 8Questions 71–80
visual composition · inference with evidence · summarising · questioning · predicting · monitoring and rereading · visualising · evaluating for a purpose · connecting · texts across time
10 questions & tasks → Set 9Questions 81–86
text organisation · moving images and sound
6 questions & tasks →Curriculum links
These activities map to the following Victorian Curriculum English Version 2.0 Level 4 content descriptions.
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 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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