Show your child how to read the layout first, then check every note and date that applies.
Practice test 1 is free. No card needed.
A visual text question asks your child to read words and layout together, on a poster, table or map. Children in Year 5 now meet them in the ASET on 6 March 2027.
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The handbook says Reading Comprehension texts may be fiction, non-fiction, poetry and drama, with diagrams, tables, charts or maps. Our example text here is a poster, where headings, notes and a notice box all carry meaning.
These three are ours, on one visitor poster for a nature reserve's walking trails. The last asks your child to check four plans against everything on the poster.
Each shows the answer and the working. As you read them together, ask your child to show you where on the poster the deciding detail sits. In these questions it's in the notes or the notice, not the headings.
BANKSIA POINT NATURE RESERVE Walk Trails: Visitor Information
LOOKOUT LOOP 1.2 km return · 30 minutes · Easy Sealed path. Suitable for prams and wheelchairs.
WETLAND BOARDWALK 2.5 km return · 1 hour · Easy Bird hide at halfway point. Steps at start (no prams).
RIDGE TRAIL 6 km return · 2.5 hours · Moderate Steep in places. Best views at Summit Rock.
COASTAL CLIFFS WALK 9 km return · 4 hours · Hard Uneven ground. No water on trail: carry your own.
** NOTICE ** Ridge Trail closed beyond Summit Rock until 30 November for track repairs. Walkers may go as far as Summit Rock and return the same way (4 km return).
Visitor Centre open 8 am – 4 pm daily. All walkers must be back at the car park by sunset. Dogs are not permitted on any trail.
Which trail has a bird hide?
Answer: C
Answer: C
Scan the notes under each trail for the words 'bird hide'. They appear only under the Wetland Boardwalk, at the halfway point. A bird hide is a small shelter for watching birds without disturbing them. Option A (Ridge Trail) mentions views, not birds.
Nadia's family is visiting with her baby brother in a pram. Which trail can they all walk together?
Answer: D
Answer: D
Check the notes, not only the grade. The Lookout Loop is a sealed path 'suitable for prams'. Option A is tempting because it is also graded Easy, but its notes say 'Steps at start (no prams)'. The other two trails are steep or uneven.
Which visitor's plan fits all the information on the poster?
Answer: B
Answer: B
Check every plan against the trail list and the notes below it. The Ridge Trail is fully open after 30 November and takes 2.5 hours, so Josh's noon start fits. Mei is too early for the full trail, and the Coastal Cliffs Walk has no water. C is tempting because the path is sealed, but dogs are not allowed on any trail.
Look at the layout before reading every line, so your child knows where to look. Then check each option against every part that applies, small print included.
On paper, your child can tick each condition as it checks out. Rough working is fine in the question booklet, but markers never see it.
Look at the headings, columns and boxes. Know where each kind of detail lives.
Find the right trail, row or label, such as the notes under each trail.
Two trails are both graded Easy, but only one is suitable for prams.
For a 'which plan fits' question, test each option against the list, the notes and the notice.
Each trap matches a wrong option on the poster questions. Go through them once you have read all three together, and ask which part of the poster each wrong option skips.
Stopping at the label: the Wetland Boardwalk is graded Easy, like the Lookout Loop, but its notes say no prams.
Missing the small print: dogs aren't allowed on any trail, so a sealed path doesn't make the Lookout Loop right for Leila's dog.
Missing a date: part of the Ridge Trail is closed until the end of November, so a plan to walk all of it earlier in the month doesn't fit.
Timetables, menus and maps mix words and layout the way a test poster does. Ask questions that need more than one part of the page.
Three worked explanations show the method. A full Reading Comprehension test, 35 questions in 35 minutes, shows whether your child still checks the small print against the clock.
Practice test 1 is free, and the results by skill show whether visual texts are where marks go. For more, see our ASET reading sample questions and the guide to ASET Reading.
They can be. The handbook lists diagrams, tables, charts and maps among the things its reading texts may include. Our poster is our own example text, written to that description.
Year 6 children in Perth metro, Bunbury and Albany sit it on 6 March 2027. Regional and interstate dates are on the ASET dates page.
Practice test 1 marks every answer and shows results by skill: what your child already does well and the three skills to work on next.
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