Reading Comprehension Lab
Interactive, guided reading practice aligned with the Australian Curriculum. Build comprehension skills from Foundation to Year 6 with a friendly coach by your side.
Building Foundations — predicting, retelling, and literal questions with simple fiction stories
Building Foundations — connections, decoding, and early inference with engaging texts
Developing Depth — inferencing, summarising, and analysing text structure
Developing Depth — vocabulary awareness, deeper analysis, and author purpose
Critical Thinking — evaluation, deep inference, and comparing texts
Critical Thinking — synthesis, evaluation, and complex analysis across genres
How the Reading Lab Works
Read with a Coach
Each passage is broken into guided sections. Kip the kangaroo walks alongside your child, asking questions and building understanding as they read.
Interactive Check-ins
Mid-reading prediction and comprehension questions keep young readers engaged and thinking critically about what they have read so far.
Comprehension Quiz
After reading, students answer questions testing literal, inferential, and evaluative understanding. Score 80% to unlock the next passage.
Parts of Speech Explorer
An integrated grammar tool lets students highlight nouns, verbs, adjectives and more directly in the text, building language awareness while reading.
Skills Progression Across Year Levels
The Reading Lab follows the Australian Curriculum (ACARA) to develop reading comprehension and grammar skills progressively from Year 1 through Year 6.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is the Reading Comprehension Lab?
The Reading Comprehension Lab is an interactive, guided reading platform for Australian students in Years 1 to 6. Each passage is presented in stages with a friendly kangaroo coach who asks questions, gives feedback, and helps students build deeper understanding as they read.
How are passages structured?
Every passage is divided into five sections that are revealed one at a time. Between sections, the coach asks prediction or comprehension questions to keep students engaged. After reading, a comprehension quiz tests five key skills: literal understanding, retelling, predicting, making connections, and vocabulary decoding.
What reading skills does it teach?
The lab covers five core comprehension skills aligned with the Australian Curriculum: literal comprehension (finding facts in the text), retelling (sequencing events), predicting (anticipating outcomes), making connections (relating the text to real life), and decoding (understanding vocabulary in context).
What is the Parts of Speech Explorer?
The Parts of Speech Explorer is an interactive grammar tool built into every passage. Students select a part of speech (such as "Verb" or "Adjective") and click words in the text to highlight them. They can then check their answers against the correct tags. The available parts of speech grow with the student: Years 1-2 focus on nouns, verbs, and adjectives, while Years 3-4 introduce pronouns, adverbs, prepositions, conjunctions, and interjections.
How does the unlock system work?
Passages within each year level are unlocked in sequence. The first passage is always available. Students must score 80% or higher on the comprehension quiz to unlock the next passage. This encourages careful reading and re-reading before moving on.
Can teachers assign passages to students?
Yes. Teachers can assign individual passages or entire year-level journeys to students or classrooms. Assigned passages bypass the unlock system so students can access them directly. Teachers can track progress, scores, and attempts through the dashboard.
Is it aligned with the Australian Curriculum?
Yes. The Reading Lab is aligned with the Australian Curriculum (ACARA) for English, covering comprehension strategies and language knowledge from Foundation to Year 6. Comprehension skills and grammar concepts are introduced at the year levels prescribed by the curriculum.