Making Sense of our Senses

Read this informative text about how our five senses work aloud to students, and implement the accompanying learning sequence to explicitly teach vocabulary, and the knowledge and skills required to support comprehension and fluency. This text was created by the Literacy Hub team.

Resource details
Year level
Foundation, Year 1, Year 2
Purpose
Teaching resource
Topic
Comprehension, Reading and viewing
Audience
Teachers, School leaders
Format
Webpage
Learning area
English
General capabilities
Literacy
Publisher

Literacy Hub

Copyright

© Australian Government Department of Education

Australian Professional Standards for Teachers
APST 2.1: Content and teaching strategies of the teaching area, APST 2.5: Literacy and numeracy strategies, APST 3.2: Plan, structure and sequence learning programs
Keywords
explanation (factual text), language features, listening comprehension, reading comprehension, text purpose, text structure