Worldwise

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.