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Year level 4 Term 2 2008 Overview of Expected Outcomes IronsideStateSchool
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English
Focus Areas
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Reading and Viewing
Focuson the four roles of the reader:
· Codebreaker
· Meaning maker
· Text use
· Text analyst
This will include criticaland visualliteracyof a varietyof texts eg. Websites, signs, brochuresetc.
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Writing
Exposition Text: Explaining, arguing and persuading to a particular point of view.
- structured to inform and persuade
- aimed at target audience
- use of specialised vocabulary
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Speaking and Listening
There will be discussion or presentation tasks that will include information about:
· Transport
· Poetry
· Science experiments
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Spelling
· Lists compiled weekly from SOSEand Science vocabulary, class words and school spelling program focussing on sight words, sound/symbol relationships, spelling rules.
· Extension words set for moreable students
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Handwriting
The focuswillbeon continuing to develop cursive script, joining techniques,
exitsand entries, slope, size of letters and spacing.
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English -Assessment
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· Standardised reading test
· Reading comprehension test
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Student’s writing will be
assessedaccording to the exposition genre
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Student’s oral
presentations on the above will be assessedby aset criteria
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Weekly spelling test
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Handwriting will beinformally
assessed.
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Maths
Focus areas
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Number
Number concepts
· 4 digit number to 9999
+ and -
· Consolidation of strategies
×x and ÷
· Doubling,
· 2’s, 4’s and 8’s strategies for multiplication
· Revise quotition and partition type divisions
Fractions
· Common fractions
· Decimal fractions to tenths
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Patterns and Algebra
Patterns
· Analyse multiples of 2, 4 and 8
· Use calculations to solve patterns
· Investigate multiplying by 1 and 0
· Investigate square and triangular number patterns
· Explore 9s pattern
Functions
· Function machine
· +, -, × , ÷
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Measurement
· Capacity (volume) mL
· Mass grams
· Relate millilitres and litres
· Solve problems involving millilitres or grams
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Chance and Data
· Continue reading, interpreting, constructing horizontal and vertical bar graphs
· Interpreting and constructing Venn diagrams
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Space
· Identify horizontal, vertical and oblique lines
· Explore right angles
· Investigate turns of a shape
· Investigate tessellating patterns
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Maths Assessment
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Tiered Maths Test: Common fractions, decimal fractions to tenths
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Tiered Maths Test: Patterns for square and triangular numbers.
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Tiered Maths Test: Working
with millilitres and litres.
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Tiered Maths Test: Constructing and interpreting horizontal bar graph.
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Tiered Maths Test: Identifying right angles. Identifying turns of a shape.
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Science
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ScienceAssessment
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SOSE
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SOSE Assessment
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Technology
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Technology Assessment
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Natural and Processed Materials.
“All sorts of stuff”
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· Knowledge test associated with unit.
· Report on an investigation on paper
· towel absorbency.
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Political and economic systems.
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· Knowledge of differences
between rules and laws.
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Creating transport/ road safety brochure using publisher.
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- Identifying problem and suggesting solutions through the brochure.
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