Year 7 Reading Comprehension

This course is aligned with the New Zealand National Curriculum and the Cambridge International Education curriculum.

The course is designed to enable students to develop knowledge and practices including:

• Mastering strategies to understand unfamiliar vocabulary and the meaning of a text.
• Developing strategies to learn, memorise, and expand academic vocabulary.
• Understanding the tools used by authors to communicate to an audience for a purpose.
• Explaining how the unique language, structural, and visual features of different text forms create meaning and influence the audience.
• Understanding the effects of word order and punctuation.
• Developing a range of strategies to monitor and manage their understanding when reading texts.
• Reading for implicit meanings by making inferences, including identifying themes.
• Interpreting texts critically by using evidence from the text, other texts, and their own knowledge and experience.

The topics per module are:

• Quests and conundrums.
• Finding adventure.
• Wild and tame.
• Wonder.

Text forms include:

• Extracts from novels and short stories.
• Poetry.
• Media texts, including digital media.