Looking for a Year 3–4 English tutor? Fiction gets most of the attention at this age — but non-fiction is where a lot of children quietly fall behind, and where NAPLAN reading tests dig deepest. This term is built to close that gap.
What This Class Is About
Non-Fiction Close Reading takes your child beyond stories and into the kind of texts they’ll meet constantly at school: articles, reports, explanations, and factual passages — and teaches them to read those texts properly, not just skim them.
What We’re Covering This Term
- Reading for structure: recognising how non-fiction texts are organised — headings, sequence, cause and effect.
- Fact vs. opinion: learning to tell the difference and to read critically rather than just absorbing text at face value.
- Finding and using evidence: pulling out the specific detail that answers a question, instead of vague, general answers.
- Summarising: condensing a longer passage into its key points — a skill tested constantly in comprehension exams.
Why It Matters
Non-fiction comprehension underpins nearly every other subject — science, history, even maths word problems — and it’s exactly what NAPLAN reading tests. Children who are only ever taught to read stories often struggle here without realising why.
Mica Academy teaches this class live online, so your child gets a qualified English tutor whether you’re in Perth, Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane or anywhere else in Australia.
Term 3 runs 18 July – 25 September. Spots are limited — get in touch to enrol your child.