Literacy Year 3_4 New Framework Plan: SpringA – Weeks 1-3
Narrative: Unit 3B Stories from other cultures
Chn will have the opportunity to explore a range of stories from Australia and begin to learn about Aboriginal culture &
people. They will look at life from a perspective different to their own and think about environmental and cultural issues.
Strands 1-4
Strands 5-6 Strands 7-10
Strands 11-12
Week
Speaking/Listening/Drama Word Level
Text Level
Sentence/
Presentation
1. Choose and prepare poems or
stories for performance, identifying
appropriate expression, tone, volume
and use of voices and other sounds.
6. Spell unfamiliar
words using known
conventions
including
graphemephoneme
correspondences
and morphological
rules.
9. Use layout, format graphics and illustrations for different
purposes.
7. Infer characters’ feelings in fiction and consequences in logical
explanations.
9. Select and use a range of technical and descriptive vocabulary.
8. Empathise with characters and debate moral dilemmas portrayed
in texts.
9. Use beginning, middle and end to write narratives in which events
are sequenced logically and conflicts resolved.
9. Make decisions about form and purpose, identify success criteria
and use them to evaluate their writing.
2. Listen to a speaker and use notes
to develop role-play.
4. Create roles showing how
behaviour can be interpreted from
different viewpoints.
1. Offer reasons and evidence for
their views considering alternative
opinions.
6. Know and apply
common spelling
rules.
1.Sustain conversation, explain or
give reasons for their views or
choices.
1. Choose and prepare poems or
stories for performance, identifying
appropriate expression, tone, volume
6c. Spell
unfamiliar words
using known
conventions
including
grapheme-
7. Deduce characters' reasons for behaviour from their actions.
7. Use knowledge of word structures and origins to develop their
understanding of word meanings.
8. Read extensively favourite authors or genres and experiment
with other types of text.
9. Develop and refine ideas in writing using planning and problemsolving strategies.
9. Show imagination through the language used to create emphasis,
humour, atmosphere or suspense.
9. Choose and combine words, images and other features for
particular effect.
9. Use settings and characterisation to engage readers’ interest.
7. Explore how different texts appeal to readers using varied
sentence structures and descriptive language.
7. Infer characters’ feelings in fiction and consequences in logical
explanations.
9. Write non-narrative texts using structures of different texttypes.
Y3
wk 1
Y4
wk 1
Y3
wk 2
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11. Clarify meaning
through the use of
exclamation marks
and speech marks.
Y3_Y4 N Unit3B – SprA – Weeks 1 - 3
Literacy Year 3_4 New Framework Plan: SpringA – Weeks 1-3
Narrative: Unit 3B Stories from other cultures
Y4
wk 2
Y3
wk 3
Y4
wk 3
and use of voices and other sounds.
3. Actively include and respond to all
members of the group.
3a. Use talk to organise roles and
action.
phoneme
correspondences
and morphological
rules.
9. Select and use a range of technical and descriptive vocabulary.
9. Make decisions about form and purpose, identify success criteria
and use them to evaluate their writing.
9. Use beginning, middle and end to write narratives in which events
are sequenced logically and conflicts resolved.
1. Tell stories effectively and convey
detailed information coherently for
listeners.
3. Use time, resources and group
members efficiently by distributing
tasks, checking progress and making
back up plans.
4. Comment constructively on plays
and performances, discussing
effects and how they are achieved.
6. Develop a range
of personal
strategies for
learning new
words.
6. Use knowledge
of phonics,
morphology and
etymology to spell
new and unfamiliar
words.
7. Use knowledge of word structures and origins to develop their
understanding of word meanings.
7. Deduce characters’ reasons for behaviour from their actions and
explain how ideas are developed in non-fiction texts.
7. Explain how writers use figurative and expressive language to
create images and atmosphere.
9. Summarise and shape material and ideas from different sources
to write informative non-narrative texts.
9. Show imagination through the language used to create emphasis,
humour, atmosphere or suspense.
9. Develop and refine ideas in writing using planning and problem
solving strategies.
7. Infer characters’ feelings in fiction and consequences in logical
explanations.
7. Identify how different texts are organised, including reference
texts, magazines and leaflets, on paper and on screen.
7. Explore how different texts appeal to readers using varied
sentence structures and descriptive language.
8. Empathise with characters and debate moral dilemmas portrayed
in texts.
8. Identify features that writers use to provoke readers’ reactions.
10. Signal sequence, place and time to give coherence.
1. Sustain conversation, explain or
give reasons for their views or
choices.
4. Identify and discuss qualities of
others’ performances, including
gesture, action and costume.
4. Comment constructively on plays
and performances, discussing
effects and how they are achieved.
7. Explain how writers use figurative and expressive language to
create images and atmosphere.
7. Identify and summarise evidence from a text to support a
hypothesis.
8. Interrogate texts to deepen and clarify understanding and
response.
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11. Compose
sentences using
adjectives, verbs and
nouns for precision,
clarity and impact.
12. Write with
consistency in the
size and proportion
of letters and
spacing within and
between words, using
the correct
formation of
handwriting joins.
12. Write
consistently with
neat, legible and
joined handwriting.
Y3_Y4 N Unit3B – SprA – Weeks 1 - 3
Literacy Year 3_4 New Framework Plan: SpringA – Weeks 1-3
Narrative: Unit 3B Stories from other cultures
8. Explore why and how writers write, including through face-toface and online contact with authors.
9. Show imagination through the language used to create emphasis,
humour, atmosphere or suspense.
9. Choose and combine words, images and other features for
particular effects.
9. Summarise and shape material and ideas from different sources
to write convincing and informative non-narrative texts.
Themes
Authors, connectives, editing own work, evidence from text, handwriting, illustrations, myths & legends, narrative, notemaking, oral discussion, question words, research, re-telling stories, role-play, stories from other cultures, word origins.
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Y3_Y4 N Unit3B – SprA – Weeks 1 - 3