Links to Curriculum Areas

 English links for WA outcomes and standards.

  • Reading -
    • R3.1: Interprets and discusses some relationships among ideas, information and events and draws inferences from them in texts with familiar content and which include some unfamiliar words or language structures and features.
    • R3.3: Identifies and uses the language structures and conventions characteristic of a range of text types to make meaning.
    • R3.4: Integrates a variety of strategies for interpreting texts and uses some strategies for identifying resources and finding information in texts.
  • Writing -
    • W3: Combines ideas in logical sequence to write a small range of text types; recognises the needs of particular audiences and purposes for writing; demonstrates control over many of the conventions of language; experiments with other conventions; and uses strategies for planning, reviewing and proofreading.
  • Viewing -
    • V3: Examines and discusses the ways in which the content and purpose of visual texts are interrelated with their form; identifies and interprets simple symbolic representations and stereotypes; recognises ways in which particular codes or conventions work to shape a viewer's understandings; and integrates a variety of strategies for interpreting familiar visual texts.
  • Speaking and listening:
    • LS3.1: Obtains closely connected or related information from informational and expressive spoken texts; follows peer discourse in group discussions; and identifies key information in audio or visual texts with accessible topics.  Interacts to express opinions and perceptions, participates in porblem-solving discussions with peers and gives brief reports and summaries.
    • LS3.3: Uses most language structures and features appropriately for expressing ideas and interpreting information.

    • LS3.4: Uses a variety of strategies to assist and sustain communiation about known concepts in familiar contexts.
Mathematics links for WA outcomes and standards.
  • Space:
    • S15a.3: Represent location- understands a map or plan as a 'bird's eye view' and uses order, proximity and directional language associated with quater and half turns on maps and in descriptions of locations and paths.
  • Measurement: students use direct and indirect measurement and estimation skills to describe, compare, evaluate, plan and construct.
  • Number:
    • N6a.3: Reads, writes, says, counts with and compares whole numbers into the thousands, money and familiar measurements.
    • N8.3: Adds and subtracts whole numbers, money and fractions with the came denominator, multiplying and dividing by one-digit whole numbers, using mainly mental strategies for doubling, halving, adding to 100 and additions and subtractions derived readily from basic facts.
  • Working Mathematically:
    • WM3.3: Poses mathematical questions prompted by a specific sitmulus or familiar context and uses problem-solving strategies that include those based on representing key information in models diagrams and lists.
Technology and Enterprise links for WA outcomes and standards.
  • Information:
    • I3: Understands that imforation has meaning when it is being developed for a purpose and relates this understanding to the selection and use of various techniques to gather, send, recieve, store and transmit information and create information products.
Society and Evironment links for WA outcomes and standards.
  • Investigation, Communication and Participation:
    • ICP2: When given a focus question the student can identify aspects to be considered and use simple data-gathering techniques to collect information; and select and compare relevant, literal, factual information in presenting findings and comparing own interpretation with those of others.
  • Place and Space:
    • PS2.1: Understands that places are characterised by their location and specific natural and built features.




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