Acquiring and using information and ideas in informational texts resources

Students read an article and are assessed on their ability to retrieve information and to make inferences in response to two questions about geologists.

Students read a poster about railway crossing safety to answer retrieval and inferential questions.

This resource requires students to answer questions about an index page.

A recount about a whale watch is the context for comprehension questions that require making inferences. The recount is reproduced in the resource. SJ-1-1-1998. Text provided.

Students read an article about shoeing a horse and find information from it to complete a retrieval chart.

Students read about cooking food in hot pools to answer inference questions. SJ-1-5-1992. Text provided.