Demonstrating the ability to summarise an entire text accurately illustrates a student has understood it at a high level, but also illustrates that they are not distracted by what is not important within it and can distil their understanding to its most essential parts.
The Strategies Revisited: Interpreting Figurative Language
The Strategies Revisited: Identifying Author’s Purpose
The Strategies Revisited: Distinguishing Between Fact and Opinion
The Strategies Revisited: Drawing Conclusions and Making Inferences
Questions about Drawing Conclusions and Making Inferences move students from a direct, lower-order level of thinking about texts read to a more indirect, higher-order level of thinking, where meaning is derived not simply from what is explicitly stated but from critically and imaginatively engaging with a text to think about the story and events beyond those presented in it.
The Strategies Revisited: Finding Word Meaning in Context
The Strategies Revisited: Making Predictions
The Strategies Revisited: Comparing and Contrasting
The Strategies Revisited: Recognising Cause and Effect
The Strategies Revisited: Understanding Sequence
The sequence in which ideas are presented in a text is one of the first things students must be able to ascertain to be able to fully derive meaning from it, and so the notion of Understanding Sequence is a crucial factor in reading comprehension and one of the 12 central reading strategies in CARS & STARS Online.
The Strategies Revisited: Recalling Facts and Details
The Strategies Revisited: Finding the Main Idea
Identifying Fact and Fiction
Getting to the Heart of It
Summarising is the last of the twelve main reading strategies that underpin the CARS & STARS Online reading comprehension program. Demonstrating the ability to summarise an entire text shows that a student has understood it at a high level, but also illustrates that they are not distracted by what is not important within it and can distil their understanding to its most essential parts.
Figuratively Speaking
Reading figurative language requires a more developed level of reading comprehension because it involves a student not simply understanding what is directly stated but moving to thinking in a more abstract and complex way. For this reason, the skill of being able to interpret figurative language is a vital one for any advanced reader, and as such it makes up one of the twelve main reading strategies that underpin the CARS & STARS Online reading comprehension program.
How we Tell a Truth from an Opinion
Reading Beyond the Text
Questions about Drawing Conclusions and Making Inferences move students from a direct, lower-order level of thinking about texts read to a more indirect, higher-order level of thinking, where meaning is derived not simply from what is explicitly stated but from critically and imaginatively engaging with a text to think about the story and events beyond those presented in it.