Navigating print and screen texts
Navigate print and screen texts to find information: use contents pages and indexes in print, and on screens swipe or scroll, tap icons, links and menus, use home, back and search, reading screen text in the same direction as print
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“Navigating print and screen texts means practising the idea at the table with a short text or prompt and one clear check. We will demo once, then your child tries.”
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- A short familiar text, poem, or picture book page
- Sticky notes or pencil
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Worked example. “I think she is worried because the text says her hands were shaking.”
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Navigating print and screen texts means practising the idea at the table with a short text or prompt and one clear check. We will demo once, then your child tries.
Materials: A short familiar text, poem, or picture book page; Sticky notes or pencil. 1. Say the goal of Navigating print and screen texts in plain words once. 2. Adult reads a short stretch aloud and models one think-aloud (predict, notice, or question). 3. Child reads or listens to three short stretches and gives one evidence-based response each time. 4. Fresh check: one fresh evidence-based response. Record and stop. Done: three responses tied to words or pictures in the text. Proof: parent note of examples and results. Stop: End after the fresh check; keep optional challenge for another day.
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Aesop's Fables
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Aesop's Fables supports Navigating print and screen texts. An adult previews and guides; this is a learning page, not a scored quiz.
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Public Library of Congress page. An anonymous GET on 2026-11-12 returned HTTP 200 with no login or payment prompt for this URL. Opening the link does not save practice or assess mastery. An adult should preview and guide the learner.
Library of Congress. “Aesop's Fables.” External page; Gakuva does not copy, host, embed, or redistribute materials.
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Check understanding
- Swipe or tap to move through a digital picture book, scroll a screen text and use the home or back icon to return to the start
- Use a side-bar or drop-down menu or a link on a children's website to reach the page about a chosen animal, then return to the home page or search with a keyword
- Find the same fact once with a book's index or contents page and once by following links on a website, and say which was quicker
“On a tablet or a kids' website, can your child swipe, scroll and use the menu, links or search to find what they want — and get back to the home page?”
Curriculum record
- Type
- Procedural
- Subject
- English
- Domain
- Reading Comprehension
- Age range
- Ages 5–12
Standards