Courseversity

All lessons

Every published lesson is listed here.

Identify and explain similes, metaphors, personification and idioms and how they create meaning.

Identify the narrator’s perspective (first or third person) and explain how it affects what the reader knows.

Identify the type of conflict in a story and explain how it is resolved.

Describe how a character changes through the story and what causes the change.

Identify the theme of a story and support it with details from the text.

Read longer, more complex texts by previewing, breaking the text into chunks, monitoring understanding and using fix-up strategies.

Read grade-level text aloud accurately, at a good pace and with expression, and self-correct when meaning is lost.

Work out the meaning of unknown words using definitions, examples, synonyms, contrasts and other context clues.

Learn and use subject-specific technical words and find their meanings from definitions, diagrams and glossaries.

Learn and use academic words that appear across school subjects, such as analyse, compare, evidence and interpret.