The Comprehension strategies box: Box 3 is suitable for students aged 8–9. The box contains a set of full-colour, differentiated literacy cards designed to support the teaching and learning of nine different comprehension strategies. These well-researched and proven strategies—predicting, visualising, making connections, questioning, clarifying, summarising, determining importance, inferring and synthesising—are compiled to help teachers unlock their students’ reading abilities.
If you're a first year out teacher, or you're pretty new to the teaching game, resources like this that really build upon those foundations of good reading are essential in your teaching practice. These are not only paper gold in covering curriculum content, but they’re well organised, engaging and so easy to implement in the classroom. They come with a teacher guide and student activity book so your work is done for you!
Bec, Year 3 Teacher, @littlemissbright
An amazing resource, it is based off the Australian Curriculum which is really awesome because that means we are covering all the content we need to cover. It comes with a teachers guide book which is super super helpful, it is full of activities, with lots that we can photocopy which is awesome – we love that. It has all the content descriptors and the purpose of them. It is a really thick book full of those amazing resources. The box comes with 4 sets of cards, so this is something that your school could purchase a whole group of year levels. So, for example my school has 4 classes of 3 primary’s and so that means my class and 3 other primary classes can use this as one, so it’s really cool. The cards are categorised by each learning area. The activities are ideal for small group activities that are teacher led. Most of the activities have the instructions at the bottom. The great thing about these cards is that all of them have things at the top that will tell you what resources you need to complete each activity. E.g. counters, whiteboard, etc. It prompts the kids with what they need to complete the activity and promotes independence as well as they can actually go and get the resources themselves. I can’t recommend R.I.C.’s resources enough because they are just so incredible. They are curriculum aligned; they are perfect for in the classroom. So, definitely go check them out if you haven’t already.
@classofmisswatt