Rolling Along with Reading

Reading material and activities are centred around our Inquiry topic for the term ‘Drug Use and Abuse’.  Topics explored are designed to assist students answer key questions within research projects and provide supporting evidence to arguments when writing an exposition text in written language.

Topics explored have included:

·       Men, Women and Smoking

·       Caffeine Facts

·       Passive Smoking

·       Alcohol Awareness

·       Analysis of smoking advertisements

Along with deepening understanding of ‘Drug Use and Abuse’, students have the opportunity to develop various key reading skills such as:

·       Predicting

·       Scanning

·       Summarising

·       Paraphrasing

·       Synthesising

·       Self-Questioning