use of visual Confidently engages with a Reads, views and uses a wide Uses multiple reading Selects suitable reading representations, e.g. wide range of authentic texts, variety of literary and factual, pathways in a range of pathways to engage with new photographs, tables, charts to e.g. newspapers, TV print and electronic texts with complex texts to locate and content. enhance meaning when documentaries, websites and increasing autonomy, e.g. assemble information. reading factual texts. chooses reading pathways extended novels and appropriate to the purpose for information texts, video Uses screen features 2. Comprehension 1st Cluster 2nd Cluster 3rd Cluster 4th Cluster 5th Cluster 6th Cluster 7th Cluster 8th Cluster Prior to End of Kinder Mid Year 1 End of Year 1 Mid Year 2 End of Year 2 school Responds to overall meaning in literary and factual texts by talking text about the central themes. to Responding texts Builds meaning in Analyses and Creates mental images factual texts by using evaluates how visual to capture ideas in texts. illustrations. images support to create meaning in viewing Visual texts. and Reading Purpose texts Comparing Begins to understand Interprets meaning by Builds understanding by inferred meaning. answering an inferential interpreting and [Best Start] question correctly. [Best discussing inferred Start] meanings. Inference reading/viewing. documentaries, multimedia (navigation bar, hyperlinks, and performance texts, etc.) when reading and graphic material viewing Internet texts.
Reading and viewing texts use of visual representations, e.g. photographs, tables, charts to enhance meaning when reading factual texts. Uses screen features (navigation bar, hyperlinks, etc.) when reading and viewing Internet texts. Confidently engages with a wide range of authentic texts, e.g. newspapers, TV documentaries, websites and chooses reading pathways appropriate to the purpose for reading/viewing. Reads, views and uses a wide variety of literary and factual, print and electronic texts with increasing autonomy, e.g. extended novels and information texts, video documentaries, multimedia and performance texts, graphic material Uses multiple reading pathways in a range of complex texts to locate and assemble information. Selects suitable reading pathways to engage with new content. 2. Comprehension 1st Cluster Prior to school 2nd Cluster 3rd Cluster 4th Cluster End of Kinder 5th Cluster Mid Year 1 6th Cluster End of Year 1 7th Cluster Mid Year 2 8th Cluster End of Year 2 Responding to text Responds to overall meaning in literary and factual texts by talking about the central themes. Visual Builds meaning in factual texts by using illustrations. Analyses and evaluates how visual images support to create meaning in texts. Creates mental images to capture ideas in texts. Purpose Comparing texts Inference Begins to understand inferred meaning. [Best Start] Interprets meaning by answering an inferential question correctly. [Best Start] Builds understanding by interpreting and discussing inferred meanings.