Predicting what happens next
Your child can guess what might happen next in a story and say why. They talk about how the title fits the tale.
In curriculum terms
Predict what might happen next in a story based on what has been read so far; discuss the significance of titles and events
Ages are typical, not deadlines — follow your child’s pace. How to help at home →
How to tell they’ve got it
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Try this together
When you stop midway through a story, can your child make a reasonable guess about what might happen next — and explain why they think so based on what's happened so far?
Where this sits on the map
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Curriculum alignment
Where this fits in the official school curriculum — our best automated guess, not yet checked by a person.
Show candidate curriculum codes · 1 ACARA · 2 NSW · 3 VIC
Australian Curriculum v9 candidate
explain how texts across the curriculum are typically organised into characteristic stages and phases depending on purposes, recognising how authors often adapt text structures and language features
NSW syllabus codes & stages only
Victorian Curriculum 2.0 codes & levels only
These are candidate alignments generated by semantic matching — machine-suggested and unreviewed (v0.1), not official or verified mappings. For official curriculum content see australiancurriculum.edu.au, curriculum.nsw.edu.au and f10.vcaa.vic.edu.au. Don’t rely on them for registration or compliance purposes.