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English
Focus Areas
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Reading and Viewing
· Engage in four roles of the reader (code breaker, meaning maker, text user and text analyst).
· View a range of topic-related texts/media and analyse these for generic structure, vocabulary and underlying themes.
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Writing
· Focus on narrative writing.
· Construct a scientific report (including procedure, explanation and discussion).
· Consolidate concepts of punctuation, grammar and editing for meaning
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Speaking and Listening
· Give an oral recount of your families’ cultural background.
· Listening to guest speakers
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Spelling
· Pre and post-test on core words, spelling demons, integrated unit words and phonetically-similar words (list derived from school program).
· Extension words set for more able students.
· Spelling lists will vary depending on student ability.
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Handwriting
· Consolidate Queensland cursive handwriting using Step Into Handwriting textbook as a guide.
· Label scientific diagrams and maps using appropriate script (printing).
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English -Assessment
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· Standardised reading test
· Reading comprehension test (narrative)
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Students narratives will be assessed according to the following criteria:
- structuring of text
- Use of mental and action processes to explore ideas through characters and situations
- targeting their intended audience
- using descriptive vocabulary & paragraphs
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· Students will give an oral recount of their families’ cultural background and can be accompanied by visual aids e.g. suitcase containing family artefacts.
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· Weekly spelling (pre-test, test).
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· Handwriting will be informally assessed.
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Maths
Focus areas
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Number
· Compare, order and represent whole numbers to 9, 999.
· Consolidate addition, subtraction, multiplication and division algorithms and problems.
· Consolidate number facts and mental strategies.
· Consolidate relationship between common/ decimal/mixed/equivalent fractions
· Calculate cash/cashless transactions.
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Patterns and Algebra
· Create and continue number patterns.
· Identify, describe and represent relationships between two quantities
· Analyse reversibility of the four operations.
· Represent and describe equivalence in equations.
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Measurement
· Identify and use
equivalent forms of standard units when measuring, comparing and ordering (length, mass, area, volume, time & angles)
· Estimate using a range of
personal referents.
· Read, record, calculate
with 12-hour time
· Interpret calendars and
simple timetables related to daily activities.
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Chance and Data
· Identify possible
outcomes of familiar situations and for these sample spaces order the likelihood of occurrence.
· Organise data and create
suitable displays, identifying and interpreting elements of the displays.
· Datasets may contain
expected or unexpected variation, which determines the need for additional data.
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Space
· Identify, make and
describe simple representations of everyday shapes and their symmetrical properties.
· Describe locations and
give directions using
angles and grids.
· Geometric features, including parallel and perpendicular lines, acute, right, obtuse and reflex angles, and vertex, edge and base, can be used to sort shapes and objects into broad family groups.
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Simple Machines
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· Short answer and multiple choice test
· Experiment write-up
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Out of the suitcase
(Cultural diversity unit.)
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· Graphic Organiser
· Short answer and multiple choice test
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· Students will apply techniques for communicating information.
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· Photo-story timeline of machine construction
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5A - Tania Venuto (
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