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Year 3 Curriculum Overview
SUBJECT AREA OR KLA
TERM 1
TERM 2
TERM 3
TERM 4
C2C ENGLISH
C2C UNIT 1
Analysing and creating a
persuasive text
C2C UNIT 2
Investigating characters
C2C UNIT 3
Exploring personal
experiences through events
C2C UNIT 4
Exploring procedures
C2C UNIT 5
Examining stories from
different perspectives
C2C UNIT 6
Examining Imaginative texts
C2C UNIT 7
Engaging with poetry
C2C UNIT 8
Reading, responding to and
writing people’s stories
C2C SPELLING
C2C SPELLING
C2C SPELLING
C2C SPELLING
C2C SPELLING
C2C SPELLING
C2C SPELLING
C2C SPELLING
C2C SPELLING
AUSTRALIAN
CURRICULUM YEAR 3
READING DESCRIPTORS
READING STRATEGIES
RELATED TO C2C UNITS
C2C MATHS
students apply a variety
of mathematical
concepts in real-life,
life-like and purely
mathematical situations
C2C SCIENCE
C2C HISTORY
Read an increasing range of different types of texts by combining contextual, semantic, grammatical and phonic knowledge, using text processing strategies, for example monitoring, predicting, confirming, rereading, reading on and self-correcting
(ACELY1679)
1. combining different types of knowledge (for example word knowledge, vocabulary, grammar, phonics) to make decisions about unknown words, reading on, reviewing and summarising meaning
2. analysing the way illustrations help to construct meaning and interpreting different types of illustrations and graphics
3. reading text types from a student’s culture to enhance confidence in building reading strategies
4. reading aloud with fluency and intonation
5. reading a wider range of texts, including chapter books and informative texts, for pleasure
Use comprehension strategies to build literal and inferred meaning and begin to evaluate texts by drawing on a growing knowledge of context, text structures and language features (ACELY1680)
1. making connections between the text and students own experience and other texts
2. making connections between the information in print and images
3. making predictions and asking and answering questions about the text drawing on knowledge of the topic, subject-specific vocabulary and experience of texts on the same topic
4. using text features and search tools to locate information in written and digital texts efficiently
5. determining important ideas, events or details in texts commenting on things learned or questions raised by reading, referring explicitly to the text for verification
6. making considered inferences taking into account topic knowledge or a character’s likely actions and feelings
Activating Prior Knowledge
Inferring
Activating Prior Knowledge
Activating Prior Knowledge
Activating Prior Knowledge
Activating Prior Knowledge
Activating Prior Knowledge
Questioning
Synthesising
Evaluating
Visualising
Inferring
Visualising
Evaluating
Evaluating
Inferring
Inferring
Making Connections
Making Connections
Summarising
Inferring
C2C UNIT 1
MEASUREMENT AND
GEOMETRY
NUMBER AND ALGEBRA
C2C UNIT 2
NUMBER AND ALGEBRA
STATISTICS AND
PROBABILITY
MEASUREMENT AND
GEOMETRY
BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
C2C UNIT 1 - Is it living?
Associated Primary Connections unit – Feathers, Fur or
Leaves
C2C UNIT 1
Investigating celebrations, commemorations and
community diversity
C2C UNIT 3
MEASUREMENT AND
GEOMETRY
NUMBER AND ALGEBRA
C2C UNIT 4
MEASUREMENT AND
GEOMETRY
NUMBER AND ALGEBRA
EARTH AND SPACE SCIENCES
C2C UNIT 2 - Spinning Earth
Associated Primary Connections unit – Spinning in Space –
Major modification Literacy * add day and night concepts
from all points of view
HEALTH
C2C UNIT 6
MEASUREMENT AND
GEOMETRY
NUMBER AND ALGEBRA
PHYSICAL SCIENCES
C2C UNIT 4 - What’s the matter?
Associated Primary Connections unit – What’s the Matter
C2C UNIT 7
C2C UNIT 8
MEASUREMENT AND
MEASUREMENT AND
GEOMETRY
GEOMETRY
NUMBER AND ALGEBRA
NUMBER AND ALGEBRA
STATISTICS AND
PROBABILITY
CHEMICAL SCIENCES
C2C UNIT 3 - Hot stuff
Associated Primary Connections unit – Melting Moments
C2C UNIT 2
Exploring continuity and change in local communities
C2C GEOGRAPHY
TECHNOLOGY
THE ARTS
C2C UNIT 5
MEASUREMENT AND
GEOMETRY
NUMBER AND ALGEBRA
DESIGN, CREATE AND APPRAISE A TERRARIUM USING RECYCLED MATERIALS
VISUAL ARTS
DRAMA
Based on narrative
E-SMART
MINIMUM WEEKLY TIME
ALLOCATION TO SUBJECT AREA OR
KLA
7 HOURS
2.5 HOURS
5 HOURS
1 HOUR 45 MINUTES
2 HOUR/WEEK FOR SEMESTER 1
C2C UNIT 1
C2C UNIT 2
Exploring Similarities and differences between places near
Protecting places near and far
and far
DESIGN, CREATE AND APPRAISE A SOLAR OVEN USING RECYCLED MATERIALS
MEDIA
DANCE
DIGITAL STORIES
DANCE INNOVATION
DANIEL MORCOMBE SAFETY UNIT
MINIMUM CURRICULUM TIME SPENT ON SUBJECT AREAS AND KLAs
DISCRETIONARY TIME TO SPEND ON SCHOOL BASED ACTIVITIES LIKE PARADE AND LIBRARY BORROWING
2 HOUR/WEEK FOR SEMESTER 2
0.25 HOUR
1 HOUR 15 MINUTES INCLUDING
MUSIC LESSON
1 HOURS INCLUDING PE LESSON
20 HOURS 30 MINUTES
3 HOURS 40 MINUTES
Year 3 Assessment Overview
SUBJECT AREA OR KLA
ENGLISH ASSESSMENT TASKS
TERM 1
Writing persuasive texts
TERM 2
Close reading of an extract
Written - Write a persuasive
letter
TERM 3
Oral - Dialogue presentation
Narrative writing
PHONICS and SPELLING
Words their Way Diagnostic
Assessment task
READING STRATEGIES
aligned to C2C unit and
reading AC content
descriptors
Pat-R
PM Benchmark
MATHS ASSESSMENT TASKS
– C2C
Monitoring – Number Detectives
Monitoring - Measuring length
Short answer questions Conduct a chance experiment
Short answer questions - Solving
addition and subtraction
problems
Monitoring - Number patterns
NCR Benchmark Term 1 PostTest
NCR Benchmark Term 2 Pre-Test
MATHS ASSESSMENTS OTHER
NCR Benchmark Term 1 Pre-Test
Monitoring task 1 Comprehending traditional
stories
Monitoring task 2 - Retelling a
story from a different
perspective
Is it living?
Portfolio - Collection of work
HISTORY ASSESSMENT TASKS
Unit 1
Assignment/Project - Collection of work
HEALTH ASSESSMENT TASKS
Oral - Writing and presenting
poetry
Monitoring - Collection of letters
Monitoring - Running Record
PM Benchmark
Pat-R
PM Benchmark
Assignment/Project –
Measurement
Short answer questions –
Additive thinking, patterns and
problem solving
Short answer questions - Telling
time
Short answer questions – Where
is it?
Short answer questions –
multiplication and fractions
Assignment/Project - Making
three dimensional models and
recognising angles
NCR Benchmark Term 3 PostTest
NCR Benchmark Term 4 Pre-Test
Short answer questions –
Reading comprehension
PM Benchmark
Monitoring – Recognising,
representing and ordering 3digit numbers
Short answer – counting,
comparing and partitioning
numbers
Written – Measurement and
location mathematical guided
inquiry questions
NCR Benchmark Term 2 PostTest
Spinning Earth
Monitoring - Annotated diagram of
the Earth and sun
Monitoring - Shadow Investigation
Monitoring - Spinning Earth Quiz
Poster/multi-modal presentation The sun, the Earth and us – Multimodal presentation
Unit 2
Portfolio - Collection of work:
Change in a community
Assignment/Project Multiplication
Money
NCR Benchmark Term 3 Pre-Test
What’s the matter?
Exam/Test - Solids and liquids
Monitoring - Investigation: How do properties of solids change when
we add heat?
Monitoring - Investigation: How does temperature affect how ice
changes state?
GEOGRAPHY ASSESSMENT
TASKS
THE ARTS ASSESSMENT
TASKS
Poster/multi-modal presentation
- Creating a multimodal text
Words their Way Diagnostic
Assessment task
SCIENCE ASSESSMENT TASKS
TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT
TASKS
TERM 4
Students design, create and appraise an terrarium using recyclable materials
Visual Art Piece
NCR Benchmark Term 4 PostTest
Pat-M
Hot stuff
Monitoring – cooling bowls investigation
Monitoring – Keeping liquid hot
Monitoring – Porridge investigation
Assignment/Project –Heat it up: scientific report
Unit 1
Unit 2
Portfolio - Collection of work
Assignment/Project - Research
Students design, create and appraise an solar oven using recyclable materials
Group drama presentation based on a narrative
E Smart
• Written - Money mathematical
guided inquiry
Digital story/poem
Dance innovation
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Daniel Morcombe