English

Year 4 English

Week 1: Understand that Standard Australian English is one of many social dialects used in Australia, explore its origin and influences (ACELA1487)
Week 2: Understand that social engaging with idea require turn-taking, mutual listening, interaction and clarifying (ACELA1488)
Week 3: Understand differences between the language of opinion and feeling and the language of factual reporting or recording (ACELA1489)
Week 4: Understand how texts vary in complexity and technicality depending on the approach to the topic, the purpose and the intended audience (ACELA1490)
Week 5: Assessment and review
Week 6: Understand how texts are made cohesive through the use of linking devices including pronoun reference and text connectives (ACELA1491)
Week 7: Recognise how quotation marks are used in texts to signal dialogue, titles and quoted (direct) speech (ACELA1492)
Week 8: Identify features of online texts that enhance readability including text, navigation, links, graphics and layout (ACELA1493)
Week 9: Revision: paragraphs, contractions, and online text features
Week 10: Assessment and review

Week 1: Identify, compare and explain features and devices of modern versus older texts (ACELY1686)
Week 2: Interpret ideas and information in spoken texts and listen for key points in order to carry out tasks and use information to share and extend ideas (ACELY1687)
Week 3: Use interaction skills including tone, pace, pitch and volume (ACELY1688)
Week 4: Plan and deliver short presentations in logical sequence, tailoring to a specific audience (ACELY1689)
Week 5: Assessment and review
Week 6: Read different types of texts by combining contextual , semantic, grammatical and phonic knowledge using text processing strategies for example monitoring meaning, cross checking and reviewing (ACELY1691)
Week 7: Use comprehension strategies to build literal and inferred meaning to expand content knowledge, integrating and linking ideas and analysing and evaluating texts (ACELY1692)
Week 8: Plan, draft and publish persuasive texts with appropriate structure, tailoring to a specific audience (ACELY1694)
Week 9: Plan, draft and publish informational texts with appropriate structure, tailoring to a specific audience (ACELY1694 part 2)
Week 10: Re-read and edit texts for meaning and grammar, and moving word groups for improvements (ACELY1695)
Week 11: Assessment and review

THROUGHOUT this term, incorporate new words, to address ACELA1498: Learn extended and technical vocabulary, including modal verbs and adverbs
Week 1: Understand how adverb groups/phrases and prepositional phrases work in different ways to provide circumstantial details about an activity, understand clauses, subjects (ACELA1495)
Week 2: Understand verbs and tense, and how nouns and prepositional phrases can change meaning (ACELA1493)
Week 3: Identify how image framing, shot size, angle and layout affect salience and audience response (ACELA1496)
Week 4: Understand how to use knowledge of letter patterns including double letters, spelling generalisations, morphemic word families, common prefixes and suffixes to spell more complex words (ACELA1779)
Week 5: Assessment and review
Week 6: Recognise and write high frequency words, including homophones and difficult words (ACELA 1780)
Week 7: Know how to use prefixes/suffixes and spell complex multisyllable words (ACELA1828)
Week 8: Investigate how quoted (direct) and reported (indirect) speech work in different types of text (ACELA1494)
Week 9: Term revision
Week 10: Assessment and review

Week 1: Make connections between the ways different authors may represent similar storylines, ideas and relationships (ACELT1602)
Week 2: Discuss literary experiences with others, sharing responses and expressing a point of view (ACELT1603)
Week 3: Use metalanguage to describe the effects of ideas, text structures and language features of literary texts (ACELT1604)
Week 4: Discuss how authors and illustrators make stories exciting, moving and absorbing and hold readers’ interest by using various techniques (ACELT1605)
Week 5: Assessment and review
Week 6: Understand, interpret and experiment with a range of devices and deliberate word play in poetry and other literary texts, for example nonsense words, spoonerisms, neologisms and puns (ACELT1606)
Week 7: Investigate plot and storyline in different fictional texts and films. Experiment with creating plot (ACELT 1794)
Week 8: Create literary texts that explore students’ own experiences and imagining (ACELT1607)
Week 9: Create literary texts by developing characters and settings (ACELT1794)
Week 10: Assessment and review