Comprehension
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Year 7 Reading Practice Statement trackers
A simple tracker for your class. Practice Statements down the left, ten student-name spaces across the top, and blank cells to use your way.
Choose a strand below. Write in the names, then add your own ticks, dates, codes or notes. For a class of 25, print three copies of the tracker.
Choose a tracker by strand
Each preview shows the first page of that PDF. Longer strands continue over several pages, with space for the same ten names on every page.
Prefer to work online? Choose Copy to Google Sheets to make your own editable copy in your Google account. The original is view-only. Add student names and notes to your own copy, and add more student columns if needed.
Practice Statements included
These trackers cover all 28 stored Year 7 Reading Practice Statements, organised into their curriculum strands and skill groups.
Comprehension
Comprehension strategies
- Monitoring and confirming their understanding across a range of texts and sources by selecting appropriate strategies
- Making inferences within a text and at a whole text level to develop understanding of settings, characters, themes and ideas and justifying inferences with explicit and implicit evidence
- Identifying and summarising key ideas and themes in texts, explaining how supporting details develop and connect these ideas
- Drawing conclusions by selecting and explaining evidence that supports a reasoned interpretation of the author's purpose, message, or viewpoint
Text form, structure, style, and features
- Identifying different text forms created for specific purposes and explaining how these shape the audience's experience
- Describing how authors use characterisation, setting, and plot to shape meaning in texts
- Identifying structural parts of texts and explaining how these contribute to the overall meaning
- Identifying language features in texts and explaining how these features contribute to meaning and influence the audience
- Identifying visual features and explaining how these features contribute to meaning and influence the audience
- Identifying and examining how specific features of digital media texts communicate messages and influence audience understanding and engagement
Vocabulary
- Using a range of strategies to ascertain the meaning of academic and content-specific words and phrases in year-level texts
- Identifying roots and affixes to determine meaning of unfamiliar words
- Using year-appropriate academic and content-specific words and phrases with accuracy
- Using print and digital dictionaries for pronunciation and definition, for both English and everyday te reo Māori
Critical Analysis
Context and purpose
- Considering the author's purpose that underpins the text by examining content, structure, and form
- Explaining how topics, people, places, or ideas are represented in texts
- Identifying the positions and perspectives that are represented and how the text is influenced by the time and place it was created
- Explaining how texts from New Zealand reflect culture, history, or values through the way they represent topics, people, places, and ideas
- Explaining similarities and differences in how media and digital media texts present the same topic or idea depending on the context and purpose
Interpretations and connections
- Explaining how ideas in texts connect to experiences, skills, knowledge, and other texts
- Using evidence from a text, along with prior knowledge, to interpret meaning and compare with other texts
- Acknowledging and building on others' ideas, respectfully challenging other students' interpretations
- Identifying cultural and social elements that are represented in a range of texts and explaining how they help communicate meaning
Word Recognition and Reading Enrichment
Developing confident readers
- Using a range of strategies for identifying and selecting texts, including how to choose an appropriate level of challenge and to expand their repertoire of texts
- Discussing preferences and opinions about texts being engaged with independently
- Applying strategies for sustained independent reading to engage with longer and more complex texts
Fluency
- Reading year-level texts accurately and expressively, including correct pronunciation of kupu Māori, reflecting understanding of the text while maintaining a natural pace of reading
- Adjusting their reading expression and intonation according to the purpose of reading and the nature of the texts they are reading
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