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Learning Intention: Students will learn to use a range of texts to locate and interpret directly stated information, including multimodal and digital texts. Students will learn to use skimming and scanning strategies to identify key words. Literal Comprehension is often referred to as 'on the page' comprehension. Surface level is the simplest form of comprehension and requires students to locate directly stated information from a text. Questioning before, during and after reading a text is the key component of building comprehension skills. Literal comprehension questions are the "how, what, who, when, where" types of questions. Readers will use decoding skills, as well as syntax and semantic skills to recognise and remember directly stated information. Skimming happens when the reader is unfamiliar with a text and skims to find out the type of text or to get the general idea. Some strategies to use include: - read the first and last paragraphs - look for general information - Use headlines, page layout, graphs and charts, pictures and highlighted text Scanning is when the reader knows something about what the text is about but wants to find out more, they scan to find specific information and key words. Strategies to use include: - look over the text quickly to locate words and sentences that link to what you need to find out - use contents pages, first and last sentences in paragraphs, subheadings, captions, bold key words and hyperlinks.