Year 3 & 4 (Middle School)

English Program Term 4, 2016

WEEK

1
3-7
October
(Year 4
Camp
3-5)

2
10 14
October

READING
Whole Class Activities
YEAR 4 CAMP- ONLY 2 DAYS IN THE
CLASSROOM
Learning Intention:
Text structure: we are using our knowledge of
text structure to understanding how we form
meaning from what we are reading.
Whole Class Reading: Immersion into
different text structures: Provide small
groups with 5- 6 different text structures.
Encourage groups to classify what text type
they think each one is with an explanation
of choice. Come together as a whole class
and have a discussion of text features of
each.
- Scientific Report
- Poem
- Personal Recount
- Narrative
- Description
- Procedure
Solids, Liquids, Gases: Put items on a table at
the front of the class and ask students to
suggest different ways they might classify
(sort) the objects (e.g. size, shape, colour,
weight, natural vs man-made, buoyancy).
Draw their favourite meal or a meal they
recently had, including a dessert and a drink.

ROTATION
ACTIVITY IDEAS
Fortune Cookies
(SOA)
Procedural text:
http://www.somewhatsi
mple.com/birthday-fortu
ne-cookies-with-simplymodern-mom/

WRITING
Learning Intention:
We are learning to sequence
and summarize events to
write a recount about Year
4 Camp/ Week of Year 4
camp for Year 3s or their
holiday.

SPEAKING &
LISTENING
Holiday /
Camp
reflections

SPELLING

H/WRITING

3 personal list (PL)

words

Targeting
Handwriting
Continue in your class
from where you left
off.

SWST

Targeting
Handwriting
Continue in your class
from where you left
off.

Modelled Writing:
Using the 5 Ws to create an
informative introduction.
Focus: Recount

Rotations Weeks 2 and

3
Guided Reading:
Recount:Read and
answer 5 level of
comprehension
questions.
It Floats - Low

Learning Intention:
We are learning to write
interview questions and
answers.
Modelled Writing:
Questions and answers.
Focus:

Write, record
and view an
interview
about camp.

Word study (list 12)

Compound words
+ 3 personal list (PL)
words.
LSCWC (Revise the
purpose and process)

Label the types of matter included in their

meal.

Learning Intention:
Text structure: we are using our knowledge of
text structure to understanding how we form
meaning from what we are reading.
WHOLE CLASS NARRATIVE: Begin
Reading George's Marvellous Medicine.
Focus:
Text structure - Procedural
Whole class shared reading and activity
How to play competition frisbee
Clean up Capers Board Game
Read through the procedure as a group.
Discuss the different way you can present.
Play Clean up Capers Board Game - Ext.
Create their own board game.
Balloon Games- Read through and then
choose one of the 3 games to play. 5 levels of
comprehension questions to answer as a
follow up task also.
Shared Reading Texts:
Matter and Materials
States of matter experiments: Egg
http://www.stevespanglerscience.com/lab/exp
eriments/growing-and-shrinking-egg/
Read through the text together as whole class
then watch the youtube example and then
apply knowledge to create own experiment - 1
egg experiment per class

Im a Barbie Girl in a
Barbie world - Med
Space Dreams for
Australian Teens - High
Krispy Kreme History Extension
Make a Sea Horse
Diorama
Spelling:
Tchr choose an
appropriate task card.
Grammar:
Articles, connecting
words
Articles A and AN
Articles A, AN and
THE
Conjunctions Y3
Conjunctions Y4
Reading / Independent
Tasks:
Word Detective
Technology:
Reading Eggs
Listen
to
reading
(Listening
post
or
storybook online)

Including the 5 Ws
insuring recounts have
adequate detail and
description.
Student Writing:
Free choice writing
Writing Conference
Focus:
Including description and
detail.

Spelling Task Cards

TeachStart Spelling
Task Cards

3
17 - 21
October

READING
Whole Class Activities
Learning Intention:
Text structure: we are using our knowledge of
text structure to understanding how we form
meaning from what we are reading.

ROTATION
ACTIVITY IDEAS
Continue Rotations
from Week 2.

PAT Reading

Investigate and compare the properties and

behaviours of each state of matter. They will
have the opportunity to demonstrate
reversible and irreversible change, as well as
investigate changes caused by adding or
removing heat.

WRITING

Cold Write - Recount Topic TBA

Learning Intention:
We are learning to write a
recount.
Modelled Writing
How to write recounts.

SPEAKING &
LISTENING
Authors
Chair:
Practice giving
a summary of
the story that
has been
shared.

Students Writing:
Free choice writing

Focus:
Recount: Read Letter to Nana as a whole
class and complete linked activities
Recount Letter to Nana

Writing Conference
Focus:
Using technical language,
punctuation.

Word study (list 12)

Compound words
+ 3 personal list (PL)
words.

H/WRITING
Targeting
Handwriting
Continue in your class
from where you left
off.

LSCWC (Revise the

purpose and process)
Spelling Task Cards

Focus: using technical

language

WHOLE CLASS NARRATIVE: Continue

Reading George's Marvellous Medicine.

SPELLING

Partner Spelling Test

Weeks 1 and 2

Shared Reading Texts:

Solid or Liquid?
Matter and Materials
States of matter experiments:
http://www.stevespanglerscience.com/lab/exp
eriments/category/states-of-matter

READING
Whole Class Activities

ROTATION
ACTIVITY IDEAS

WRITING

SPEAKING &
LISTENING

SPELLING

H/WRITING

4
24 28
October

Draw an example of how molecules look

in the three states.Play a game of Solids,
Liquids and GasesGame starts with
students meandering around the
room/space. When the teacher calls out
a state (solid, liquid or gas) the students
have to work together to demonstrate
how the molecules would behave.
Experiment: Bottle Cloud
Learning Intention:
We are learning how to compare and contrast
information in texts.
WHOLE CLASS NARRATIVE: Continue
Reading George's Marvellous Medicine.
Whole Class Reading Activities:
Focus:
Compare and Contrast
Same same but different Story Book online
COMPARE AND CONTRAST THE TWO
Begin the discussion by asking the following
questions.
Ask students what the story that we just read was
about?
Discuss how Elliot and Kailash were different?
What was different about where Elliot and Kailash
lived?
What things did Elliot and Kailash do that was the
same?
How were Elliot and Kailash the same?

Focus:
Procedural
How to use a compass: Use a set of
compasses to have a go. Write short list of

Cars & Stars lessons

6-10 to be completed
this week.

Learning Intention:
We are learning to write
Procedural texts.

Rotations Weeks 4 and

5
Guided Reading:
Compare and Contrast
- Guided
Reading books
- Stars and Cars
-

Modelled Writing:
Procedural texts.

Spelling:
Tchr choose an
appropriate task card.
Grammar:
Sentence parts, misused
words
Phrases
Confused words Y3
Confused words 2 Y3
Confused words Y4
Confused words 2 Y4
Independent Task: - Reading Eggs
- Listen to reading
Compare and
Contrast: Compare and
contrast yourself and
your best friend. Create
little people to display
the information.

Focus:
Using Conjunctions to link
sentences.
Discuss use of words other
than and then as a class.
Brainstorm a list on the
board.
Students Writing:
Free choice writing
Writing Conference
Focus:
Students use of
conjunctions in self initiated
writing tasks
Editing Task:
Read through a passage of
writing containing too many
ands. Alter the passage of
writing to include different
conjunctions.

Authors
Chair:
Listening for
conjunctions.
Did they use
joining words
other than and

SWST testing to be
completed this week?
Word study (list 13)
Demon words
+ 3 PL words
LSCWC
Spelling Task Cards

Targeting
Handwriting
Continue in your class
from where you left
off.

directions from one place in the school to

another.
Shared Reading Text:
Solid or Liquid?
Matter and Materials
States of matter experiments:
http://www.stevespanglerscience.com/lab/exp
eriments/category/states-of-matter

5
31 - 4
Oct/Nov

READING
Whole Class Activities
Discuss the properties of solids, liquids and
gases. Discuss the effect temperature can have
on the state of each. Present the problem
A scientist was in his lab and accidentally
knocked over some jars. This resulted in the
oil mixing with the water and the salt mixing
with the sand. The scientist needs to separate
the sand from the salt and the oil from the
water to use in his experiments.
What can he do to separate the two mixed
substances?
Learning Intentions:
Compare and contrast: We are learning to
compare and contrast information within
texts.
WHOLE CLASS NARRATIVE: Continue
Reading George's Marvellous Medicine.
Whole Class Reading Activities:
Focus:
Compare and Contrast
Procedural Texts

ROTATION
ACTIVITY IDEAS
Cars & Stars lessons
6-10 to be completed
this week.
Continue Rotations
from Week 4.

WRITING
Learning Intention:
We are learning to write
Procedural Texts.
Modelled Writing:
How to write Procedural
Texts.
Reading George's
Marvellous Medicine.
Task: students create their
own creative marvellous
medicine. Students create a
mini procedure in pairs as a
warm up then draft their
own marvellous medicine.
Focus: Capital letters, full
stops and paragraphs. Use
of commas to separate ideas
in sentences and for lists.
Students Writing:
Choice

SPEAKING &
LISTENING
Authors
Chair:
Voice
projection,
clear speech
and eye contact

SPELLING
SWST results
uploaded this week.
Word study (list 13)
Demon words
+ 3 PL words
Partner Spelling Test
Weeks 1 and 2

In pairs, present
to the class
their own
marvellous
medicine.

LSCWC
Spelling Task Cards

H/WRITING
Targeting
Handwriting
Continue in your class
from where you left
off.

Chocolate Fudge: Read and have make as a

whole class

6
7 - 11
Nov

Shared Reading Texts:

Solid or Liquid?
Matter and Materials
States of matter experiments:
http://www.stevespanglerscience.com/lab/exp
eriments/category/states-of-matter
READING
Whole Class Activities
Mixing Oil and Water: Even when you mix
oil and water together they still separate. The
oil always floats to the top because it is less
dense than water. Oil and water dont mix
because water molecules are more attracted
to each other than to oil molecules.
Experiment: Funky Milk
Learning Intention:Compare and contrast:
We are learning to compare and contrast
information within texts.
WHOLE CLASS NARRATIVE: Continue
Reading George's Marvellous Medicine.
Whole class Reading:
Focus: Information / Scientific report
example The Rivers Journey
Shared Reading Possum magic
Discuss how Grandma Poss used the
scientific method to cure Hush.
Focus:
Compare and contrast

Writing Conference
Focus:
Use of capital letters, full
stops and paragraphs .

ROTATION
ACTIVITY IDEAS
Rotations Weeks 6 and
7
Guided Reading:
Compare and Contrast
- Guided
Reading
Books
- Stars and
Cars
Spelling:
Tchr choose an
appropriate task card.
Grammar:
Capital letters, full
stops, question marks,
exclamation marks.
Question and
exclamation marks,
statements
Punctuation marks and
capital letters
Full stop, question and
exclamation marks

WRITING
Learning Intention:
We are learning to write
Science Report, make
predictions and record our
observations.

SPEAKING &
LISTENING
Authors
Chair
Clear and
coherent speech

SPELLING
Word study (list 14)
Words in which letters
are often added
+ 3 PL words
LSCWC

Modelled Writing:
How to write a Science
Report
Focus:
Conventions procedural
texts. What do we need to
include?
Student Writing:
Choice Writing
Writing Conference
Focus:
Capital letters, full stops
and paragraphs. Use of
commas to separate ideas in
sentences and for lists.

Spelling Task Cards

H/WRITING
Targeting
Handwriting
Continue in your class
from where you left
off.

Shared Reading Text:

Solid or Liquid?
Matter and Materials
States of matter experiments:
http://www.stevespanglerscience.com/lab/exp
eriments/category/states-of-matter

Capital Letters
Reading:
Choice reading
Reading Eggs
Listen
to
reading
Think alouds
station
Independent
(Compare & contrast):
Elizabeth's parents

7
14 - 18
Nov

READING
Whole Class Activities
Read students Bartholomew and the
Oobleck Students will now make some
Oobleck and discuss some of its properties.
Learning Intention:
Compare and contrast: We are learning to
compare and contrast information within
texts.
Whole class activity:
Shared Reading Texts:
Read students Bartholomew and the
Oobleck
Listen to Reading:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9bo5N2
N5zI
PDF:
http://www.channelsteve.com/wp-content/upl
oads/2014/08/1959-Bartholomew-And-The-O
obleck-Dr.-Seuss.pdf

ROTATION
ACTIVITY IDEAS
Continue Rotations
from Week 6

WRITING
Learning Intention:
We are learning to write
informative texts
documenting investigations
in solids, liquids and gases.

SPEAKING &
LISTENING
Authors
Chair

SPELLING
Word study (list 14)
Words in which letters
are often added
+ 3 PL words
LSCWC

Modelled Writing:
How to write an
information text
Focus: Conventions of an
informative text. What is it
and what do we need to
include.
Student Writing:
Students attempt to write a
simple informational text.
Writing Conference
Focus:

Spelling Task Cards

Predict, observe
and reflect on
Oobleck.
Students share
their
predictions and
observations
using strategies
such as

H/WRITING
Targeting
Handwriting
Continue in your class
from where you left
off.

Using conventions of
informative texts. How to
use factual information to
build sentences and
paragraphs around a main
point or idea.

Focus:
Compare and contrast:

8
21 - 25
Nov

READING
Whole Class Activities
Demonstrate Change in state
Bonus Activity: Borax Slime

ROTATION
ACTIVITY IDEAS
Rotations Weeks 8 and
9

Shared Reading Text:

Solid or Liquid?
Matter and Materials
States of matter experiments:
http://www.stevespanglerscience.com/lab/exp
eriments/category/states-of-matter

Guided Reading :
Predicting
- Guided
Reading
Books
- Stars and
Cars

Learning Intention:
Predicting: We are learning to make and
justify predictions about texts.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nsLD33rc
zFA
Whole class activity:
Descriptive Pieces:
Exhausted
Obentoo
Making Predictions:

Spelling - Tchr choose

an appropriate task card.
Grammar Commas
and colons
Colons and Semicolons
Commas
The Comma
Commas in a Series Y3
Commas in a Series Y4
Commas separating
groups of words
Technology:
Trouble in Paradise:

WRITING
Learning Intention:
We are learning to write
descriptions.
Modelled Writing:
How to write descriptive
texts.
adjectives, verbs and figurative
language

Focus:
How to turn research into a
writing piece.
Students Writing:
Students writing a more
detailed informative text.
Writing Conference
Focus: Using conventions
of informative texts. How to
use factual information to
build sentences and
paragraphs around a main
point or idea.

compare and
contrast.

SPEAKING &
LISTENING
Authors
Chair

SPELLING
Word study (List 15)
ow/our words
+ 3 PL words
LSCWC
Spelling Task Cards

H/WRITING
Targeting
Handwriting
Continue in your class
from where you left
off.

https://www.youtube.co
m/watch?v=am5lKJMib
r0
Watch short film- pause
and make predictions on
what might happen next.
What do you think the
trouble in paradise
might be?
Did your predictions
come true?
https://www.youtube.co
m/watch?v=-OXJj-pSTv
o
1.12 Pause- what do you
think will happen next?
Why do you think he
takes off his glasses?
2.47 What do you think
is going to happen next?
3.47 How do you think
the game going to end?
4.13 What is he asking
for? What does he win?
End What do you find
out in the end?

READING
Whole Class Activities

Reading:
Choice reading
Reading Eggs
Listen to
reading
Think alouds
station
ROTATION
ACTIVITY IDEAS

WRITING

SPEAKING &
LISTENING

SPELLING

H/WRITING

9
28 - 2
Nov/Dec

Learning Intention:
Predicting: We are learning to make and
justify predictions about texts.

Continue from Week 8

Learning Intention:
We are learning to write
descriptions.

Authors
Chair

Word study (List 15)

ow/our words
+ 3 PL words

Shared Reading Text:

Solid or Liquid?
Matter and Materials
States of matter experiments:
http://www.stevespanglerscience.com/lab/exp
eriments/category/states-of-matter

Modelled Writing:
How to write an
information report.

LSCWC

Focus:
Predicting: We are learning to make and
justify predictions about texts.

Students Writing:
Choice

Students
present their
Inquiry to
their own class
for assessment.
**Idea to
make it into a
Science Show?

Focus:
Using adjectives

Whole class activity:

Descriptive Pieces:
Yaya -Activity: Write a description about
someone special to you.

READING
Whole Class Activities

10
5-9
Nov

Learning Intention:
Predicting: We are learning to make and
justify predictions about texts.
Shared Reading Text:
Solid or Liquid?
Matter and Materials
States of matter experiments:
http://www.stevespanglerscience.com/lab/exp
eriments/category/states-of-matter

ROTATION
ACTIVITY IDEAS
Rotations Weeks 9 and
10
Guided Reading :
Compare and Contrast
- Guided
Reading
Books
- Stars and
Cars
Spelling

Writing Conference
Focus:
Using conventions of
informative texts. How to
use factual information to
build sentences and
paragraphs around a main
point or idea. Using
adjectives.
WRITING

Revision
Recount - reflections of
2016

Targeting
Handwriting
Continue in your class
from where you left
off.

Spelling Task Cards

SPEAKING &
LISTENING

SPELLING

Revision

Revision
(Personal Words)

H/WRITING
Targeting
Handwriting
Continue in your class
from where you left
off.

Focus:
Predicting: We are learning to make and
justify predictions about texts.
Whole class activity:
Sharing your thinking zoom in, main idea,
connections and questions/inferences. BLM
on page 143, non fiction reading power.
(reflect on a text read)
Presto (short film):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CB1Pukr
0nFQ
Watch short film- pause and make predictions
on what might happen next? Did your
predictions come true?

READING
Whole Class Activities
Revision / Christmas

11
12 - 16
Dec
12

Wrap up week
Christmas activities
Classroom packup

19 - 20
Dec

ONLY 2 DAYS

Tchr choose an
appropriate task card.
Grammar
Direct & Indirect speech
Direct Speech Y3
Direct Speech Y4
Reading:
Choice reading
Reading Eggs
Listen
to
reading
Think alouds
station
Independent:
Day and Night short
film Warning: Rated G
but consider skipping
for 20 sec at 2.35
ROTATION
ACTIVITY IDEAS
Continue Rotations
from Week 9

WRITING

Revision
Recount - reflections of
2016

SPEAKING &
LISTENING

SPELLING

H/WRITING

Revision

Targeting
Handwriting
Continue in your class
from where you left
off.

(Personal Words)