CAA Reading Study Classes Yr 10 and above

The sessions, run after school, will aim to provide students with additional support in developing their comprehension skills. The program will help students develop an awareness of various text types and an understanding of the language used in a variety of texts. I encouraged students to attend and to work directly on improving their comprehension skills.

Students will be given the opportunity to read a wide variety of genres. The aim is to strengthen student text knowledge and to help students develop an internal framework for how texts work. This will centre around text structure, language features, sentence structure and strategies for dealing with unfamiliar words. There will also be an emphasis on tracking cohesion within a text, critical reflection and evaluating ideas and information.

Task 1


The text was projected onto the screen and the scanning and predicting was handed out as a pen and paper exercise. It was necessary to circulate to encourage students to write their informed guess onto the paper.

Task 2

Some students reluctantly to wrote a summary, Some stopped after a sentence. I will endeavour to compare their ability to complete the mulitchoice answers successfully and the quality of their summaries. Their may not be a direct relationship.

Task 3

Some students panicked a little and ticked all the boxes or made it hard to mark their work. Next time, I may ask students to hand in their scripts rather than letting them mark their own work.