Australian Curriculum Year One Guided Reading Questions

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Language
Students learn to:

Understand how language, facial expressions and gestures are used to interact with others when asking for
and providing information, making offers, exclaiming, requesting and giving commands (AC9E1LA01)
Can you find the differences between questions, statements,
requests and commands?
Can you explain what an open question is?
Can you find an open question in this text?
Explore language to provide reasons for likes, dislikes and preferences (AC9E1LA02)
What are your thoughts on this text?
How did you feel at the beginning of the text?
How did you feel at the end of the text?
Did anyone else feel the same as you did?
Explore how texts are organised according to their purpose, such as to recount, narrate, express
opinion, inform, report and explain (AC91LA03)
Do you know what type of text this is?
Can you tell me the language that is used?
What sort of information has the author included? Why do you
think this?
Explore how repetition, rhyme and rhythm create cohesion in simple poems, chants and songs
(AC9E1LA04)
Can you identify class/subclass patterns?
Do you know what cause and effect patterns are?
Can you spot any language patterns and repetition?
Why do you think the author has used this sort of language?
Do you think the text would change if it didn’t use these
features?
Understand that written language uses punctuation, such as full stops, question marks and
exclamation marks, and uses capital letters for familiar proper nouns (AC9E1LA10)
Did what you read make sense?
What can you tell me about the punctuation in the text?
Why do you think the author uses punctuation?
Understand how print and screen texts are organised using features such as page numbers, tables of
content, headings and titles, navigation buttons, swipe buttons, swipe screens, verbal commands, links and
images (AC9E1LA05)
How are books organised?

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What features do books use to make them easy to use?

Do you know what a caption is?
What special features has the author used in this text?
Do you think all books have these features? Why/Why not?
Understand that a simple sentence consists of a single independent clause representing a single event or
idea (AC9E1LA06)
Can you tell me what a verb, noun and adverb are?
Can you show me a verb, noun and adverb from the text?
Can you show me a basic sentence from the text, and find the
verb, noun and adverb?
Understand that words can represent people, place and things (nouns, including pronouns), happenings and
states (verbs), qualities (adjectives) and details such as when, where, and how (adverbs) (AC9E1LA07)
Can you tell me what an adjective is?
Why do you think adjectives, adverbs and verbs are important
in a text?
Can you show me a sentence that has these three language
features in them?
Literature
Students learn to:
Discuss how language and images are used to create characters, settings and events in literature by First
Nations Australian, and wide-ranging Australian and world authors and illustrators (AC9E1LE01)
What sort of characters does the author use in the text?
Do any of the characters relate to any people you know?
Why do you think the author has made characters in the story
relatable?
Discuss literary texts and share responses by making connections with students’ own experiences
(AC9E1LE02)
Are the characters in the text lifelike, or imaginary?
How has the author portrayed the characters?
Do you like the characters in the text?
Have you felt like some of the characters before? If so, when?
Listen to and discuss poems, chants, rhymes and songs, and imitate and invent sound patterns including
alliteration and rhyme (AC9E1LE04)
What do you think the writer was saying in this poem/chant/
rhyme/song?
Did you like the poem/chant/rhyme/song? Why/Why not?
Can you pick a word from the text and identify some words
that rhyme?

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Discuss plot, character and setting, which are features of stories (AC9E1LE03)
Where is this text/book set? How do you know this?
Can you retell anything from the text?
What happened first/next/at the end?
What type of text is this?
How do you know what type of text it is?
Literacy
Students learn to:
Discuss different texts and identify some features that indicate their purposes (AC9E1LY01)
What type of text is this?
How do you know what type of text this is?
What sort of words and language does the author use?
What is the purpose of this text?
What was the lesson in the story the writer was trying to tell
the reader?
Read decodable and authentic texts using developing phonic knowledge, phrasing and fluency, and
monitoring meaning using context and grammatical knowledge (AC9E1LY04)
Did you make any predictions about the text?
Did you need to self-correct or reread any part of the text?
Use comprehension strategies such as visualising, predicting, connecting, summarising and questioning
when listening, viewing and reading to build literal and inferred meaning by drawing on vocabulary and
growing knowledge of context and text structures (AC9E1LY05)
Do you like looking at pictures when looking at a text? How do
they help you understand the words?
Can you explain what you know about the text?
What words tell us how the characters are feeling?
What happened first/next/at the end?
Use short vowels, common long vowels, consonant blends and digraphs to write words, and blend these to
read one- and two-syllable words (AC9E1LY11)
Can you find words that have the same onset? For example,
d/og, d/ob, d/ip.
Can you find words that have the same rime? For example, c/
at, f/at, m/at.
Recognise and know how to use grammatical morphemes to create word families (AC9E1LY15)
Do you know what a base word is? If so, can you find one in
the text?
Can you build a word family from this base word?

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How many words can you see on display in the classroom

that are in this text?
Read and write an increasing number of high frequency words (AC9E1LY14)
Can you see any unfamiliar words in the text?
What type of strategies can we use to read these words?

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