Curriculums overview for English (Year)

Year 3 English

Week 1: Understand that successful cooperation depends on social conventions like turn-taking and forms of address (ACELA1476)
Week 2: Examine how evaluative language can be varied to be more or less forceful (ACELA1477)
Week 3: Understand how different text types vary in language depending on purpose and context (ACELA1478)
Week 4: Understand that paragraphs are a key organisational feature of written texts (ACELA1479)
Week 5: Assessment and review
Week 6: Know that contractions are features of informal language, and apostrophes of contraction signal missing letters (ACELA1480)
Week 7: Identify features of online texts that enhance navigation (ACELA1790)
Week 8: Consolidate weeks 6-7
Week 9: Lesson on writing a text discussing a topic or issue.
Week 10: Assessment and review

Week 1: Identify the point of view in a text and suggest alternatives (ACELY1675)
Week 2: Listen and contribute to conversations and discussions (ACELY1676)
Week 3: Use interaction skills including tone, pace, pitch and volume (ACELY1792)
Week 4: Plan and deliver short presentations in logical sequence (ACELY1677)
Week 5: Assessment and review
Week 6: Read a variety of texts using contextual, grammatical, and phonics knowledge (ACELY1679),Identify audience and purpose of different text types (ACELY1678)
Week 7: Use comprehension strategies for literal and inferred meaning (ACELY1680)
Week 8: Plan, draft and publish various text types with appropriate structure (ACELY1682)
Week 9: Re-read and edit texts for meaning and grammar (ACELY1683)
Week 10: Write using joined letters consistently (ACELY1684) and use software to edit texts with visual/audio elements (ACELY1685)
Week 11: Assessment and review

THROUGHOUT this term, incorporate new words, to address ACELA1484: Learn extended and technical vocabulary, including modal verbs and adverbs
Week 1: Understand that a clause usually contains a subject and verb in agreement (ACELA1481)
Week 2: Understand verbs represent different processes and are anchored in time through tense (ACELA1482)
Week 3: Identify how techniques like shot size, angle and layout affect audience response (ACELA1483)
Week 4: Use letter-sound relationships and less common patterns to spell words (ACELA1485)
Week 5: Assessment and review
Week 6: Recognise and write most high frequency words, including some homophones (ACELA1486)
Week 7: Read and write multisyllabic words using blending and segmenting strategies (ACELA1826)
Week 8: Know how to use prefixes/suffixes and general spelling rules (ACELA1827)
Week 9: Spelling and grammar revision
Week 10: Assessment and review

Week 1: Discuss how characters, settings and events are portrayed; speculate on author’s intent (ACELT1594)
Week 2: Draw connections between personal experiences and texts (ACELT1596)
Week 3: Develop criteria for personal preferences in literature (ACELT1598)
Week 4: Discuss how language describes settings and affects mood (ACELT1599)
Week 5: Assessment and review
Week 6: Spelling focus: Use letter-sound relationships and less common patterns to spell words (ACELA1485)
Week 7: Explore the effects of rhythm and onomatopoeia in texts (ACELT1600)
Week 8: Create imaginative texts using visual features like perspective and angle (ACELT1601)
Week 9: Create texts that adapt features like characterisation, rhyme, rhythm and dialogue (ACELT1791)
Week 10: Assessment and review

Week 1: Understand that languages have different systems and ways of constructing meaning (ACELA1475)
Week 2: Understand that successful cooperation depends on social conventions like turn-taking and forms of address (ACELA1476)
Week 3: Examine how evaluative language can be varied to be more or less forceful (ACELA1477)
Week 4: Understand how different text types vary in language depending on purpose and context (ACELA1478)
Week 5: Assessment and review
Week 6: Understand that paragraphs are a key organisational feature of written texts (ACELA1479)
Week 7: Know that contractions are part of informal language and understand apostrophes of contraction (ACELA1480
Week 8: Identify the features of online texts that enhance navigation (ACELA1790)
Week 9: Revision: paragraphs, contractions, and online text features
Week 10: Assessment and review

Week 1: Identify the point of view in a text and suggest alternatives (ACELY1675)
Week 2: Listen and contribute to conversations and discussions (ACELY1676)
Week 3: Use interaction skills including tone, pace, pitch and volume (ACELY1792)
Week 4: Plan and deliver short presentations in logical sequence (ACELY1677)
Week 5: Assessment and review
Week 6: Read a variety of texts using contextual, grammatical, and phonics knowledge (ACELY1679),Identify audience and purpose of different text types (ACELY1678)
Week 7: Use comprehension strategies for literal and inferred meaning (ACELY1680)
Week 8: Plan, draft and publish various text types with appropriate structure (ACELY1682)
Week 9: Re-read and edit texts for meaning and grammar (ACELY1683)
Week 10: Write using joined letters consistently (ACELY1684) and use software to edit texts with visual/audio elements (ACELY1685)
Week 11: Assessment and review

THROUGHOUT this term, incorporate new words, to address ACELA1484: Learn extended and technical vocabulary, including modal verbs and adverbs
Week 1: Understand that a clause usually contains a subject and verb in agreement (ACELA1481)
Week 2: Understand verbs represent different processes and are anchored in time through tense (ACELA1482)
Week 3: Identify how techniques like shot size, angle and layout affect audience response (ACELA1483)
Week 4: Use letter-sound relationships and less common patterns to spell words (ACELA1485)
Week 5: Assessment and review
Week 6: Recognise and write most high frequency words, including some homophones (ACELA1486)
Week 7: Read and write multisyllabic words using blending and segmenting strategies (ACELA1826)
Week 8: Know how to use prefixes/suffixes and general spelling rules (ACELA1827)
Week 9: Spelling and grammar revision
Week 10: Assessment and review

Week 1: Discuss how characters, settings and events are portrayed; speculate on author’s intent (ACELT1594)
Week 2: Draw connections between personal experiences and texts (ACELT1596)
Week 3: Develop criteria for personal preferences in literature (ACELT1598)
Week 4: Discuss how language describes settings and affects mood (ACELT1599)
Week 5: Assessment and review
Week 6: Spelling focus: Use letter-sound relationships and less common patterns to spell words (ACELA1485)
Week 7: Explore the effects of rhythm and onomatopoeia in texts (ACELT1600)
Week 8: Create imaginative texts using visual features like perspective and angle (ACELT1601)
Week 9: Create texts that adapt features like characterisation, rhyme, rhythm and dialogue (ACELT1791)
Week 10: Assessment and review