YEARLY SCOPE AND SEQUENCE –– MOONEE PONDS PRIMARY SCHOOL
Year 3/4 2014 yearly overview
YEAR
LEVEL
Literacy
Reading:
Setting up Classroom Library
The First 20 Days of Reading
Just Right Books
Genre identification
Reading purpose
Reciprocal reading - Begin reading groups
Problem solving step and strategies
Comprehension Strategies: Think aloud,
Prior Knowledge, Visualising, Predicting,
Making connections, Text features
Statistics & Probability
Birthdays & variety of graphs (data collections)
Writing Types: Recounts, Persuasive
Writing
Term 1
Numeracy
Writers Craft:
6 Traits- overview & Ideas
Start Students Individual Writers Notebook
using ‘Getting started with a Writers
Workshop’- connect to reading
Vocabulary building
Sentence Formation: Three types of
Sentences. ! ? Looking at question marks,
exclamation marks and full stops.
Grammar
Nouns, Verbs, Adjectives and Adverbs
Word attack skills – sounding out,
chunking, breaking a word up, recognizing
known words. Vocab builder and topic word
walls.
Handwriting and letter formation.
Number & Algebra
Number patterns
Equations –what equals means
Place Value
Measurement & Geometry
Measurement-length
Mapping
Integrated Studies Focus
Year Even
Year Odd
Civics and
Health,
Citizenship
Civics and
History (Level
Citizenship
3), Geography A fair go
Who Are We? Rules &
Communities,
Equity
changing
Australia,
transitions. Our
community:
Moonee Ponds,
Victoria, Australia
People,
places, and
days (events).
YEARLY SCOPE AND SEQUENCE –– MOONEE PONDS PRIMARY SCHOOL
YEAR
LEVEL
Literacy
Reading:
Fiction V’s Non Fiction
Persuasive
Reciprocal reading
Stars strategies
Comprehension Strategies:
Making connections, Summarising and
questioning.
Numeracy
Problem solving
Number & Algebra
Number lines
Addition and Subtraction
Arrays
Measurement & Geometry
Vocabulary: Tiered vocabulary
2D shapes
Angles
Word attack skills - sounding out,
Perimeter
chunking, breaking a word up, using
area
context, Syllables.
Time
Writing Types: Persuasive Information text, analogue & digital
Term 2
explanation. and poetry.
Writers Craft:
Continuing to build the writers notebook. –
set for homework
6 traits- organisation & voice
Sizzling starts, using binoculars
Grammar and Punctuation: parts of
speech- pronouns, articles conjunctions etc
Verb-tense
Sentence formation and endings.
Rhetorical questions, commas
Sentence Formation:
Compound and complex sentences.
Word Study: Topic words
Handwriting and letter formation.
Statistics & Probability
Collecting data on behavior of data
Integrated Studies Focus
Year Even
Year Odd
Health,
Science
(Biology)
Growing up –
The Human
Body
Biology,
Human body
as a system,
safety,
changes
Science
Imagine
That!
Chemistry
YEARLY SCOPE AND SEQUENCE –– MOONEE PONDS PRIMARY SCHOOL
YEAR
LEVEL
Literacy
Reading:
Non Fiction Texts & Plays
Comprehension Strategies: Inferring,
Summarising and questioning.
Word attack skills – sounding out,
chunking, breaking a word up, Prefix and
suffix
Vocabulary: Tiered vocabulary
Term 3
Writing Types: Poetry, Procedural,
Narratives & plays
Writers Craft:
Continuing to build the writers notebook. –
set for homework
6 traits- word choice & sentence fluency
Power of 3s, show not tell
Grammar and Punctuation:
Apostrophe and possession
Detailed Nouns common, proper, collective,
abstract/ possessive
Commas and colons
Sentence Formation:
Compound and complex sentences,
adjectival & adverbial phrases
Word Study: Topic Words
Handwriting and letter formation.
Numeracy
Problem solving
Number & Algebra
Multiplication and Division
-carrying
-long division
-large number multiplication
-Fractions, Decimals, percentages and chance and data
Statistics & Probability
Measuring chance events
Measurement & Geometry
3D shapes
Measurement
Mass
volume/ capacity
Time
timetables
Integrated Studies Focus
Year Even
Year Odd
Science,
Design and
Creativity
Marvelous
Machines
Physics:
forces, energy
observed and
explained,
design and
creativity brief.
Geography,
Science,
Design and
Creativity
People &
the
Environmen
t
Geography &
Sustainability
, Design,
Creativity
and
Technology
– something
to help the
environment.
YEARLY SCOPE AND SEQUENCE –– MOONEE PONDS PRIMARY SCHOOL
YEAR
LEVEL
Literacy
Reading:
Non Fiction Texts
Historical fiction
Term 4
Comprehension Strategies: Inferring,
Summarising and questioning. Revising all
comprehension strategies when needed.
Numeracy
Problem solving
Number & Algebra
BIDMAS
Money
Word attack skills – Revision
Measurement & Geometry
Manipulation of shapes-views & transformation
(enlarge/reduce; rotate/translate/reflect)
Writing Types: Persuasive, letters and
poetry.
Revise & complete all work that hasn’t been covered
Writers Craft:
Continuing to build the writers notebook. –
set for homework
6 traits- conventions
Grammar and Punctuation: Direct and
indirect speech.
Conversation structure
Sentence Formation:
Conversations and sentence structure.
Writers Notebook.
Continuing to build the writers notebook. –
set for homework
Word Study: Topic Words
Handwriting and letter formation.
Integrated Studies Focus
Year Even
Year Odd
Economics,
Geography
Being a
Consumer
How to use
money: kids,
adults,
countries..
If the world
was a village
of 100.
History,
Civics &
Citizenship
Being
Australian
History pre
European
settlement
to now. Link
to Sovereign
Hill Camp