Primary Campus
YEAR 3 PROGRAM SEMESTER TWO
ENGLISH Students continue to develop a range of reading strategies and comprehension skills such as analysing the author ’ s purpose, recognising cause - and - effect relationships and comparing and contrasting within and between texts. They review various texts and engage in guided, collaborative and independent activities to build on a range of proficiencies. In Writing, students continue to establish a range of writing styles including reports, expositions, narratives and procedures. Through shared, modelled and independent writing, students consolidate their understanding of the text features and key language associated for each text type. Explicit spelling and handwriting activities are embedded throughout the program to build on students' language and writing skills. MATHEMATICS Students continue to develop their mathematical understanding across the curriculum. They continue to consolidate their use of mental strategies to solve addition, subtraction, multiplication and division problems. Students estimate answers for addition and subtraction problems and then use written strategies to solve them. They use calculators to check their answers and mathematical software to explore various concepts. Students are further developing their understanding of money and calculating change. They undertake a range of activities to build on their understanding of fractions. They explore the features of two and three dimensional shapes and identify angles in everyday situations. Students conduct chance experiments, identifying and describing possible outcomes. They also explore evidence of symmetry in their environment. Students also undertake a range of activities to develop their understanding of using formal measurement in length.
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The Lakes South Morang College Curriculum Handbook
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