Understand a variety of texts by using a range of appropriate reading strategies to construct meaning

What you need to learn in this topic

1. Understand the main points in extended texts on a wide range of familiar topics
2. Understand specific details and information in extended texts on a wide range of familiar topics
3. Guess the meaning of unfamiliar words from clues provided by other words and by context on a wide range of familiar topics
4. Use independently familiar and some unfamiliar print and digital resources to check meaning and extend understanding
5. Recognise with little or no support the attitude or opinion of the writer in extended texts on a wide range of familiar topics
6. Recognise with support typical features at word, sentence and text levels of an increased range of genres