Forming and testing hypotheses Readers form and revise hypotheses or expectations about texts. Student: "When I hypothesise, I look at the title, the illustrations, or charts and diagrams. Then I make a decision about what to expect. It gets hard when it's about some really complicated thing that I've never heard of." Teacher: "There are lots of verbs in this first paragraph that convey action. How can you use this information to form an expectation about the text as a whole?" See Effective Literacy Practice Y1–4 p. 132 Effective Literacy Practice Y5–8 p. 143 Duffy pp. 81–86 Miller pp. 157–171       Comprehension  |  ARB Home    Please Note: ARB material may be reproduced for school-based assessment purposes, not for sale or other purposes.   The ARBs   Assessment information   Support materials   Help   Contact us   Site map

      Copyright © 2008 Ministry of Education, Wellington, New Zealand.
       New Zealand Council for Educational Research. All rights reserved