WorldWise is a high-interest literacy program consisting entirely of Informative texts covering key topics from pre-school to upper primary.
WorldWise:
- Develops strategies and skills appropriate to the stage and level of the reader.
- Assists in the development of strategies and skills to navigate a range of informational text types.
- Promotes inquiry, questioning and research.
- Provides opportunities to go beyond the information in the text.
- Includes a range of graphical devices that enhance the information in the text.
- Has a strong link to writing where students are encouraged to synthesize the information in the text and to respond with their own thinking and ideas.
- Promotes reading, thinking and talking at the conceptual level.
- Provides Blackline master activities that encourage students to read the text again and support purposeful, independent work.
- Recognises the importance of vocabulary in understanding and processing information.
- Is linked to Australian Curriculum Science understandings -therefore providing a cross-curricular resource for Science/STEM related topics.
WorldWise features
- Offers teachers flexibility: small group, partner, independent work.
- Content that will immediately engage students and reflect the diversity of the world students live in.
- Links to the science curriculum (natural, physical and earth sciences).
- Each title has a focus on a particular reading comprehension strategy.
- Graphical devices and striking photographs to support the content and provide platforms for the teaching of reading comprehension of non-continuous texts.
- A variety of text types.
WorldWise Lesson Plans:
- Teach reading strategies simultaneously with science concepts.
- Provide graphic organisers that directly link to the reading strategy and helps keep track of students’ thinking as they read.
- Provide practical, systematic, easy-to-implement instruction.
- Integrate oral language, comprehension, vocabulary development, fluency and writing.
- Include ongoing assessment and follow-up activities for Years F-5+.
WorldWise Investigation
Online Investigations for Years 3-5+ available at www.worldwise-investigations.com.au WorldWise Investigations is a web-based tool that provides extension activities for titles in the program. It encourages exploration of content linked to curriculum outcomes in a deeper, more hands-on way. Students are supported with a framework that encourages investigation and inquiry.
- Investigations Framework
- Questioning and predicting
- Planning and conducting
- Processing and analysing data and information
- Evaluating
- Communicating
Fluent Levels 19-24
Linked to Year 2 Science Curriculum
Texts at this stage:
- provide language structures of appropriate complexity
- introduce less familiar content
- present a range of text types and graphical devices
- 24 student books in the series
- a lesson plan accompanies each book.
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