Unit of Work: Literacy

Language
Understand how different types of
texts vary in use of language
choices, depending on their
purpose and context (for
example, tense and types of
sentences) (ACELA1478)
Understand that paragraphs are a
key organisational feature of
written texts(ACELA1479)
Understand that a clause is a unit
of grammar usually containing
a subject and a verb and that
these need to be in
agreement (ACELA1481)
Identify the effect on audiences of
techniques, for example shot size,
vertical camera angle
and layout in picture books,
advertisements and film
segments (ACELA1483)
Understand how to use sound
letter relationships and knowledge
of spelling rules, compound
words, prefixes, suffixes,
morphemes and less common
letter combinations, for example
tion (ACELA1485)

Year 4
Understand how texts are made
cohesive through the use of
linking devices including pronoun
reference
and text connectives(ACELA1491)
Understand how to use strategies
for spelling words, including
spelling rules, knowledge of
morphemic word families, spelling

Year Level: 3/4

Literature
Draw connections between
personal experiences and the
worlds of texts, and share
responses with
others (ACELT1596)
Discuss the nature and effects of
some language devices used to
enhance meaning and shape the
readers reaction, including rhythm
and onomatopoeia in poetry and
prose(ACELT1600)
Create texts that adapt language
features and patterns encountered
in literary texts, for example
characterisation, rhyme, rhythm,
mood, music, sound effects and
dialogue (ACELT1791)
Discuss texts in which characters,
events and settings are portrayed
in different ways, and speculate
on the authors
reasons (ACELT1594)
Develop criteria for establishing
personal preferences for
literature (ACELT1598)
Create imaginative texts based on
characters, settings and events
from students own and other
cultures using visual features, for
example perspective, distance
and angle (ACELT1601)

Literacy
Identify the point of view in
a text and suggest alternative
points of view (ACELY1675)
Listen to and contribute to
conversations and discussions to
share information and ideas and
negotiate in collaborative
situations(ACELY1676)
Use interaction skills, including
active listening behaviours and
communicate in a clear, coherent
manner using a variety of
everyday and learned vocabulary
and appropriate tone, pace, pitch
and volume (ACELY1792)
Plan and deliver short
presentations, providing some key
details in logical
sequence(ACELY1677)
Identify the audience and purpose
of imaginative, informative and
persuasive texts(ACELY1678)
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 selfcorrecting (ACELY1679)
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

General capabilities and crosscurriculum priorities

Literacy
Personal and social capability
Critical and creative thinking
Sustainability
Information and communication
technology capability

generalisations, and letter

combinations including double
letters (ACELA1779)
Understand that the meaning of
sentences can be enriched
through the use
of noungroups/phrases and verb
groups/phrases andprepositional
phrases (ACELA1493)

features (ACELY1680)
Plan, draft and publish
imaginative, informative and
persuasive texts demonstrating
increasing control
over text structures and language
features and selecting print,and
multimodal elements appropriate
to the audience and
purpose (ACELY1682)
Reread and edit texts for meaning,
appropriate structure, grammatical
choices and
punctuation(ACELY1683)
Write using joined letters that are
clearly formed and consistent in
size (ACELY1684)

Year 4
Identify characteristic features
used in imaginative, informative
and persuasive texts to meet the
purpose of the text (ACELY1690)

Prior knowledge
Students have learnt other reading strategies (Fact and opinion, main idea, sequencing, compare and contrast) and have applied it into reading
exercises and activities
Students are familiar with spelling routine using Words Their Way resource book within their spelling groups
Students have had explicit instruction in punctuation, grammar and parts of speech within sentences

Unit Overview (Forward planning document)

Language
(ACELA1478)
(ACELA1479)
(ACELA1481)
(ACELA1485)

Literature
(ACELT1596)
(ACELT1600)
(ACELT1791)

Year 4
(ACELA1491)
(ACELA1779)

Literacy
(ACELY1675)
(ACELY1676)
(ACELY1792)
(ACELY1677)
(ACELY1678)
(ACELY1679)

(ACELY1680)
(ACELY1682)
(ACELY1683)
(ACELY1684)

Year 4
(ACELY1690)

Reading

Writing

Reading strategy with Big Book 'The Blackout' - Cause and effect
Define cause and effect, give/ask for examples of situations that show
cause and effect

Paragraphing
Use interactive whiteboard to show examples of paragraphing. Model the structure of
paragraphs with 'Burger Paragraphs' - bun, patty, ingredients represent paragraph's
topic sentence, supporting body sentences and conclusion

Vocabulary practice and word study

Study signal words which link causes to its effects
Because, due to, therefore, so, thus, then, etc. plus other cause and effect
related terminology
Jeopardy Cause and Effect game on interactive whiteboard
Whole class reading
Read 'My Place' by Sally Morgan.
Compare the text to digital resource website and discuss differences
(character profiles) and explore website features
Poetry: Examples of different poems with a cause and effect example and
analyse these works

Ballads
Use 'Let It Go' from the movie Frozen to analyse ballad conventions
Change lyrics in song using writing techniques learnt
Editing writing samples
Use 'Punctuation Marking Men' guide for sentence editing. Use iPad app to present
or Author's Chair and they describe their comic to the class
Sentence expansion:
'Super Sentence' activity to improve writing ability and stimulate creativity.
7 methods: Add in words, drop in chunks, add on beginning/end, changing words,
adding in simile, alliteration

Comic strips: Examine comic strips and its conventions. Use comic strip
examples to highlight the cause and effect theme.

Simile and alliteration study

Presenting examples of these and learning through word games. Give starting
prompts e.g. The enormous elephant, the teacher was as angry as...

Rotational Reading Groups

Reading Groups
Newspaper Group, Comics Group, Magazine Group, Book Group

Graffiti activity
Students rotate to different writing stations and practice the given writing strategy in
groups

Groups rotate through guided reading, vocabulary/comprehension tasks

and independent activity

Poetry
Study purpose and structure of a poem type (ballad)
Rhyme, rhythm, adjectives etc, simile, alliteration
Students attempt to write their own poem, using appropriate poetry devices.
Exemplars: Study examples of different poems
Make a class book to publish of students' poems

Read given texts and complete accompanying task sheets

Complete vocabulary box/comprehension cards
View different comic strips and discuss the meaning of the comic, its

causes and its effects. Students create their own comic strips to
demonstrate a cause and effect example

Spelling
Spelling Groups
Friends Group, Pals Group, Mates Group, Buddies Group

Oral presentations (PowerPoint) on chosen topics

Speaking and listening skills

Students complete their spelling tasks with their group

Word sorts
Identifying spelling patterns

Viewing
Inferential Reading and Questioning
Picture study to make inferences based on linking evidence to prior
knowledge
Study of a text to identify meaning created by author/illustrator
through the use of conventions and visual features
Camera angles, distance, lighting, colours, etc.
Create a picture to represent meaning

Unit Outline
KEY: Whole Class Small Group Individual
Week

Learning
Outcomes
(AC)

Teaching and Learning

Activities

Group
structu
re

(ACELY1675)
(ACELY1676)
(ACELY1792)

Whole Class Reading

Read Big Book - 'The
Blackout'
Introduce 'cause and effect'
reading strategy
Read text, discuss ideas
and vocabulary
Model the use of graphic
organisers to organise
ideas
Writing - paragraphs
Revisit paragraphing groups separate a chunk of
text into paragraphs
Students present briefly.
Paragraph worksheet main idea
Structure of a paragraph
using a burger
Purpose, examples
Highlighting on IWB
6 groups - 1's, 2's, 3's, 4's
get top bun, lettuce, patty

(ACELY1683)
(ACELA1479)

Literacy Focus

Resources

Listening
Viewing

Big Book for comprehension

Mini whiteboards/clipboards

Vocabulary and
Signal words

Paragraph
structure:
Topic sentence
Supporting details
Concluding
sentence
One main idea

Assessment
Type (D/F/S)
Fobservation
Worksheet
completion

Cause/effect worksheet
p.189

Burger sections - labelled

Paragraph worksheet for
Interactive Whiteboard
Mini whiteboards
Paragraph worksheet what doesn't belong?
Paragraph separation
worksheets for groups

F - anecdotal
notes about
paragraph
presentations
from
students and
their
paragraph
separation
worksheets

(ACELA1481)
(ACELA1478)

(ACELA1478)
(ACELY1678)

(ACELY1675)
(ACELY1676)
(ACELY1792)
(ACELY1678)

and bottom bun each and

construct a paragraph from
given topics
Sentence stretching
Warm up - each person
says a word to create
sentences
Powerpoint presentation
about adding/changing
words to add detail
Model example in
Powerpoint with class on
whiteboard
Writing rotation game students write a sentence
and rotate it around the
table and different students
add or change words
Write 5 sentences for
homework
History Recounts
Revisit structure of a
recount
Paragraphs within a
recount - one main idea
Students use selfassessment checklist to
edit their recount
Comic strips lessons
Jeopardy Game
Brainstorm causes and
effects
Use assortment of comics
to demonstrate the reading
strategy

Sentence
structure
Nouns
Adverbs
Adjectives
Verbs

Stretching sentences
powerpoint
Popstick cups containing
nouns, verbs, adjectives,
adverbs for students

F - marking
student
homework
sentences

Random name generator

online

Recount structure
Title, introduction,
sequenced events,
conclusion
(personal opinion)

Display of brainstorm on
IWB from Mr Okely's visit
to Highgate

F - marking
student
recounts

Self-assessment
checklists for students

Comparing
student selfassessment
checklists to
work

Language: past
tense

Looking at
language and
audience of
specific text types

Assortment of different
cause and effect comics
Online Jeopardy game at
http://www.quia.com/cb/434737.htm
l
?AP_rand=2120814586

Mini whiteboards
(ACELY1675)
(ACELY1676)
(ACELY1792)

Rotational Reading Groups

2 guided reading groups reading text and answering
questions
1 group - vocabulary task
sheet
1 group - comic strip activity,
create their own comic

Guided reading
groups

Reading texts for 2 groups

(6x small books)

Involving
questioning
techniques

Vocabulary task sheets

Vocabulary and
grammar practice

Comic strip template

Comic strips

F - checklist
of children's
ability to
demonstrate
reading
strategy
Marking
children's
worksheets

(ACELY1675)
(ACELT1596)

(ACELY1683)
(ACELA1479)

(ACELA1485)

(ACELY1684)

(ACELY1675)
(ACELY1676)
(ACELY1792)
(ACELT1596)

(ACELY1683)
(ACELA1479)

Character Study
Read third decade from
back of My Place book
Read aloud and do
inferential questioning
Explore My Place website
on IWB
Compare and contrast the
text to the website
Character profile of Liam or
Charles and a Wanted
poster
Writing lessons
Simile lesson - identification
of similes and construction
of similes
Alliteration lesson
Sentence construction
using Super Sentences
activity
Teach 7 ways to expand
sentences
Students create sentences
using techniques in pairs

Spelling
Spelling Groups with their
own group activities

Handwriting
Practice letter joins
Practice writing
words containing
joins
Rotational Reading Groups
2 guided reading groups reading text and answering
questions
1 group - vocabulary task
sheet
1 group - comic strip
activity, create their own
comic

Writing
Students choose their own
cause and effect to write

Viewing

My Place big book

Character
development
using symbolism
and other devices

My Place interactive
website
Character profile sheet

Wanted poster template

Similes - a
comparison of
two objects/ideas
Language: 'like'
and 'as'

Picture cues for

brainstorm
Simile video clip
Simile interactive spinner

Alliteration - words
that start with the
same letter

F - marking
student
worksheets
about similes
and
sentences

Sentence strips
Mystery bag

Writing
Nouns, verbs,
adjectives, adverbs
Identification of:
Word families
Spelling rules
Letter formations
and speed loops

Sentence worksheets for 7

techniques
Spelling workbooks
Groups' word sort list
words

F - anecdotal
notes made
about word
sorts

Handwriting books
Photocopies of pre-written
letter joins

Guided reading
groups

Reading texts for 2 groups

(6x small books)

Involving
questioning
techniques

Vocabulary task sheets

Vocabulary and
grammar practice

Comic strip template

Comic strips

Punctuation Men sheets

F - checklist
of children's
ability to
demonstrate
reading
strategy
Marking
children's
worksheets
F - Final
cause and
effect
paragraph to

be reviewed

their paragraphs
individually
Brainstorm
Edit using Punctuation Men
(ACELA1485)

(ACELY1684)

(ACELY1677)
(ACELY1792)

(ACELT1600)
(ACELT1791)

(ACELA1485)

(ACELY1675)
(ACELY1676)
(ACELY1792)
(ACELT1596)

Spelling
Spelling Groups with their
own group activities

Handwriting
Practice letter joins
Practice writing
words containing
joins
Graffiti charts
Brainstorming sentences in
groups using coloured
textas
Work on each writing
method on paper around
the class

Oral presentations
Students deliver a 3 minute
oral presentation using
PowerPoint on their topic of
choice
Combine writing methods
Introducing ballads and
songs via book
Changing lyrics
Create a ballad that uses
combination of learned
writing methods
Spelling
Spelling Groups with their
own group activities

Buddies, Pals, Friends,

Mates
Rotational Reading Groups
2 guided reading groups reading text and answering
questions
1 group - vocabulary task
sheet
1 group - comic strip activity,
create their own comic

Identification of:
Word families
Spelling rules

Spelling workbooks
Groups' word sort list
words

Letter formations
and speed loops

Handwriting books

F - anecdotal
notes made
about word
sorts

Photocopies of pre-written
letter joins

Writing
techniques using
adjectives,
adverbs, nouns,
verbs
Alliteration
Similes
Speaking and
listening skills
Content
Verbal and nonverbal skills
Parts of speech
Song/rap
conventions

A3 chart papers

F - anecdotal
notes made
about using
methods for
writing

Peer assessment checklist

for students

S - teacher
rubric about
student
presentations

Teacher assessment
rubric
Whale rap book?
Frozen song audio

F - checklist
of different
methods
used

Frozen lyrics on IWB

Identification of:
Word families
Spelling rules

Spelling workbooks
Groups' word sort list
words

F - anecdotal
notes made
about word
sorts

Speaking and
listening
Guided reading
groups

Reading texts for 2 groups

(6x small books)

Involving
questioning
techniques

Vocabulary task sheets

Comic strips

F - checklist
of children's
ability to
demonstrate
reading
strategy

Vocabulary and

Comic strip template

Marking

grammar practice
5

(ACELT1600)

(ACELA1478)
(ACELY1680)

(ACELA1485)

(ACELY1677)
(ACELY1792)

(ACELY1679)

(ACELA1485)

(ACELA1483)
(ACELT1594)

(ACELA1478)
(ACELY1680)

Poem (ballad) creation

Brainstorming writing
Students write their own
poem using poetry
conventions

Inferential reading/viewing
Developing techniques to
read on and beyond texts
Making inferences from
images
Spelling
Spelling Groups with their
own group activities

Buddies, Pals, Friends,

Mates
Oral presentations
Students deliver a 3 minute
oral presentation using
PowerPoint on their topic of
choice
Text structures
Use a jigsaw type
assessment for students to
sort text structures into
scrapbooks
Heading, definition,
structure, examples
Spelling
Spelling Groups with their
own group activities
Buddies, Pals, Friends,
Mates
Text exploration
Image study in texts/video
e.g. colours, angles, distance
Inferential reading/viewing
Making inferences from
images

children's
worksheets
S - marking
student work
against rubric

Poetry
conventions
Onomatopoeia
Rhythm
Rhyme

Inference: Using
textual clues and
prior knowledge
Identification of:
Word families
Spelling rules
Speaking and
listening
Speaking and
listening skills
Content
Verbal and nonverbal skills
Structures:
Recount,
procedure, report,
narrative,
persuasive text

Different images for

inferencing

Spelling workbooks
Groups' word sort list
words

F - anecdotal
notes made
about word
sorts

Peer assessment checklist

for students

S - teacher
rubric about
student
presentations

Teacher assessment
rubric
Jigsaw assessment paper

Sidentification
and
classification
of structures

Identification of:
Word families
Spelling rules

Spelling workbooks
Groups' word sort list
words

F - anecdotal
notes made
about word
sorts

Speaking and
listening
Viewing
(look at Leanne's
curriculum
document)

The Fox by Margaret Wild

and Ron Brooks

F - anecdotal
notes and
observation

Inference: Using
textual clues and
prior knowledge

Different images for

inferencing

(ACELY1677)
(ACELY1792)

(ACELT1600)

(ACELY1684)

Oral presentations
Sun Moon Earth
powerpoints
Start making a Prezi
Poem (ballad) creation
Students write their own
poem using poetry
conventions

Speaking and
listening

Prezi website

Poetry
conventions

Science vocabulary word

wall
Dictionaries

Handwriting
Practice letter joins
Practice writing
words containing
joins

Onomatopoeia
Rhythm
Rhyme
Letter formations
and speed loops

Student writing checklist

Handwriting books
Photocopies of pre-written
letter joins

S - marking
student work
against rubric

Unit of Work: Mathematics

Number and Algebra
Represent money values
in multiple ways and count the
change required for simple
transactions to the nearest five
cents(ACMNA059)
Represent and solve problems
involving multiplication using
efficient mental and written
strategies and appropriate digital
technologies(ACMNA057)
Apply place value to partition,
rearrange and regroup numbers to
at least 10 000 to assist
calculations and solve
problems (ACMNA053)
Describe, continue, and
create number patterns resulting
from performing addition or
subtraction(ACMNA060)

Year 4
Solve problems involving
purchases and the calculation of
change to the nearest five cents
with and without digital
technologies(ACMNA080)
Develop efficient mental and
written strategies and use
appropriate digital technologies for
multiplication and for division
where there is no
remainder (ACMNA076)
Solve word problems by
using number sentences
involving multiplication or division
where there is
no remainder (ACMNA082)

Year Level: 3/4

Measurement and Geometry
Create and interpret simple grid
maps to show position and
pathways (ACMMG065)

Statistics and Probability

Conduct chance experiments,
identify and describe possible
outcomes and recognise variation
in results (ACMSP067)

General capabilities and crosscurriculum priorities

Literacy
Numeracy
Personal and social capability

Identify symmetry in the

environment(ACMMG066)

Year 4
Use simple scales, legends and
directions to interpret information
contained in basic
maps(ACMMG090)
Create symmetrical patterns,
pictures and shapes with and
without digital
technologies(ACMMG091)

Year 4
Describe possible everyday
events and order their chances of
occurring (ACMSP092)
Identify everyday events where
one cannot happen if the other
happens (ACMSP093)

Critical and creative thinking

Understanding - connecting
number representations with
number sequences, identify
environmental symmetry
Fluency - recall multiplication
facts, identifying and describing
outcomes of chance experiments,
interpreting maps and
communicating positions
Reasoning - generalising from
number properties and results of
calculations
Year 4
Understanding - extending place
value to decimals, describing
properties of symmetrical shapes
Fluency - recall multiplication
facts, create patterns with shapes
and their transformations
Reasoning - generalising from
results of calculations, deriving
strategies for unfamiliar
multiplication and division tasks

Unit Overview (Forward planning document)

Number and Algebra
(ACMNA059)
(ACMNA057)

Year 4

Measurement and Geometry

(ACMMG062)
(ACMMG065)
(ACMMG064)

(ACMNA080)
(ACMNA076)
(ACMNA082)

Year 4

Money

Location/maps
Creating simple mud maps/grid maps of
the school to show location and position

Representing different amounts of money

using different quantities of coins
Calculating amounts of change received
from purchases using a bigger total
amount of money
Calculating the answers to worded
problems and questions involving money
Calculation strategies
Using mental and written strategies to
solve and represent problems and
number sentences involving
multiplication and division
Using strategies to solve worded
problems involving the four operations of
addition, subtraction, multiplication and
division
Fractions
Identification of fractions on a number
line

Statistics and Probability

(ACMSP067)

Year 4
(ACMSP092)

(ACMMG085)
(ACMMG086)
(ACMMG090)
(ACMMG089)

Using simple scales, legends and

directions to interpret basic maps
Drawing a treasure map and using the
language of direction to help a friend
navigate through the map to find a
location of interest
Vocabulary: north, south, east, west,
coordinates, scales, key, direction
Symmetrical patterns
Using transparent mirrors to discover
different drawings and objects to identify
symmetrical patterns
Identifying symmetry in the environment
(home and school) and drawing the
objects and identifying lines of symmetry
Name/word art: students use their own
name to create art symmetry
Vocabulary: line/plane of symmetry,
symmetrical, transparent, reflection

Chance
Learning probability terms and relating
these to the chances of events occurring
in everyday situations
Ordering probabilities according to their
likelihood by creating a class probability
line and attaching events to their
associated probabilities
Conducting chance experiments and
identifying possible outcomes using dice
and coins
Using the interactive whiteboard to
explore games and activities about
chance
e.g. chance of drawing out a certain
coloured ball out of a bag of assorted
coloured balls

Unit Outline
KEY: Whole Class Small Group Individual
Week

Learning
Outcomes (AC)

Teaching and Learning

Activities

Grou
p
struct
ure

(ACMSP092)

Introduce chance vocabulary

Introduce terms such as
highly likely/unlikely in the
context of everyday
situations
Students play a game on
netball court with each
corner labelled with a
different chance word
Students use their miniwhiteboards to write down
probabilities with a partner
School mud map
Students go outside for a
short walk around the school
to identify main buildings
On grid paper, draw a mud
map of the school showing
the location of buildings with
relative size/distances
Money, change and rounding
using receipts
Use play plastic money to
find different combinations
to make the same amount of
money to trade coins
Using a number line and
counting-up strategy to work
out change

Multiplication number facts

Practicing ways to solve
double digit x single digit
Model how to represent
worded problems into
number sentences
Year 4's: division strategies

(ACMMG065)

(ACMNA080)

(ACMNA057)
(ACMNA076)

Proficiency
strands

Resources

Assessment
Type (D/F/S)

Fluency

Probability words
for game

Dobservation
and checklist

Identifying and
describing outcomes
of chance experiments

Sentence strips
indicating different
events
Students' miniwhiteboards

Fluency

Grid paper

F - make
notes about
students' mud
map drawings
of the school

Plastic coins

F - anecdotal
notes about
understanding

Interpreting maps and

communicating
positions

Understanding extending place value

to decimals

Magnetic money
Adding/change
worksheet

Understanding
connecting number
representations with
number sequences
Reasoning generalising from
number properties and

Mini whiteboards
Number worded
problems worksheet
- multiplication

0/1/2 rubric
system for
a). adding $
b). money
change

as repeated subtraction

(ACMSP092)
(ACMSP093)

(ACMMG065)

(ACMMG065)
(ACMMG090)

(ACMMG065)
(ACMMG090)

(ACMNA080)

Ordering probabilities
Creating a class probability
line and justifying associated
probabilities
Children complete a chance
card sort
Treasure Maps
Explicit teaching of
directions and NSEW
Paired games - e.g.
battleship for coordinates
practice
Students start creating a
treasure map with a key with
directions to the treasure
Year 4's: Use a street directory
UBD to explore legends, scales
and main points of interest
Read Big Book - Once Upon a
Time Map Book
Introduce mapping
vocabulary - coordinates,
scales, legends
Use mapping and location
language
Demonstrate using a
shopping centre map
Students use a photocopy of
one of the maps from the
book to write their own tour
guide around the map
Navigating and directions
Using a large 6x6 floor grid
with route cards for students
to navigate from start to
finish
Completion of treasure map
tours to treasure using
mapping language
Year 4's: outdoor activity to
measure the netball court to
scale
Money, change and rounding

results of calculations
Fluency
Recall multiplication
facts
Fluency

Identifying and
describing outcomes
of chance experiments

Grid paper
Interpreting maps and
communicating
positions

Street directories

Fluency

Big Book

Interpreting maps and

communicating
positions

Shopping centre
map

Grid paper with

lettered and
numbered axes

Fluency

Interpreting maps and

communicating
positions

Floor grid map and

route cards
Big Book
Trundle wheels

F - anecdotal
notes about
student
justification

Fluency

Chance cards for

probability line
Events for
probability line
Chance card sort
worksheet

Understanding -

F - marking
students'
directions,
scales, keys
on their maps

S - marking
student
treasure
maps, keys
and
associated
directions

(ACMSP092)

(ACMNA057)
(ACMNA076)

(ACMSP092)
(ACMSP067)

(ACMMG065)
(ACMMG090)

(ACMMG066)

using receipts
Use play plastic money to
find different combinations
to make the same amount of
money to trade coins
Using a number line and
counting-up strategy to work
out change
Buying food items and
working out correct change
in a customer-shopkeeper
style
Chance assessment activity
Students use their
probability word card sort
into appropriate columns
and write into their maths
books
Multiplication worded
problems
3 ability groups working on
multiplication word problems
(3 digit x 1 digit, 2x1 and
multiplication facts)

Chance and probability

experiments
Heads or Tails game to
explore random probability
Experiments using a coin to
record the number of times
head/tail comes up
Recording results in a table
Fractions review
MultiMaths
Fraction wall segments
Fractions on a number line
Assessment for location
Students complete maps
and location assessment

Introduction to Symmetry

extending place value

to decimals

Plastic coins
Magnetic money

Adding/change
worksheet
Food item cards
with prices

0/1/2 rubric
system for
a). adding $
b). money
change

Probability word and

event card sorts

SWritten test
on chance
and
probabilities

Understanding
connecting number
representations with
number sequences
Reasoning generalising from
number properties and
results of calculations
Fluency
Recall multiplication
facts
Fluency

Multiplication
problem worksheets

F - anecdotal
notes about
student
understanding
by marking
student
worksheets

Identifying and
describing outcomes
of chance experiments

Different
manipulatives e.g.
dice, coins,
spinners, etc.

Fluency
Identifying and
describing outcomes
of chance experiments

F - anecdotal
notes about
understanding

Whiteboards

Reasoning generalising from

fraction proportions

Fluency
Interpreting maps and
communicating
positions
Understanding -

Assessment
worksheets from
Maths curriculum
books

Summative
assessment
of
understanding
Diagnostic

(ACMNA057)

(ACMMG066)
(ACMMG091)

(ACMSP092)
(ACMSP067)

(ACMNA053)

(ACMNA082)
(ACMNA080)
(ACMNA057)
(ACMNA059)

(ACMNA060)

Diagnostic assessment

Worded number problems

work stations
Set up mathematics work
stations for children to rotate
through
Use hands on materials
such as flash cards to create
their own written word
problems for a friend to
solve
Symmetry
Finding symmetry in the
environment outside in the
schoolgrounds
Creating name symmetry
art/butterfly patterns
Using mirrors (miras)
Chance and probability
experiments
Experiments using a dice to
record results with a partner
and/or individually
As a class, use data to
create a tally and graph
Revision of place value
Whole class verse teacher
place value game starter
Using a deck of cards for
place value manipulation
How did you do it - Maths
Calculate assessment
Work out answers to
addition subtraction worded
problems
Calculate problems involving
money and change using a
timeline and other methods
Number - Patterning
Revise finding patterns
within a sequence of
numbers
Use pattern maths task
cards to work out solutions

identify environmental
symmetry
Fluency - create
patterns with shapes
Reasoning generalising from
number properties and
results of calculations

assessment assessment
sheet

Flash cards
Worksheets

Understanding
connecting number
representations with
number sequences

Mini whiteboards

Understanding identify environmental

symmetry
Fluency - create
patterns with shapes

Symmetry in the
environment
worksheet

Fluency

Worksheets

Identifying and
describing outcomes
of chance experiments

Different
manipulatives e.g.
dice, coins,
spinners, etc.

Mark student
worksheets

Deck of cards
Dice

Reasoning
Generalising from
number properties and
results of calculations,
deriving strategies

Understanding

Connecting number
representations with
number sequences

How Did You Do It

sheet
Money calculation
sheet

Maths patterning
task cards

S - marking
worksheets
and recording
a mark

F - anecdotal
notes about
student
understanding
by marking
student work

(ACMMG066)
(ACMMG091)

to problems individually and

swapping with each other
Symmetry artwork
Assessment sheets to
assess understanding
Create half a piece of
artwork where another
student will finish it in a
symmetrical way

Understanding identify environmental

symmetry
Fluency - create
patterns with shapes

Assessment sheets

Sassessment
of
understanding
of symmetry