Literacy

This term, our Grade 3 students are continuing to develop their confidence and skills as readers and writers. 

Reading: Students are enjoying our class novel, Because of Winn-Dixie by Kate DiCamillo. Our lessons involve shared reading, exploring unfamiliar vocabulary, completing comprehension activities linked to the novel, practising reading fluency with a partner and independent reading.

Writing: Students are revisiting and building on their narrative and persuasive writing skills. They are focusing on descriptive language, character development, dialogue and 'show, don't tell' techniques to create more engaging and well-structured writing.

Morphology: Students have begun exploring the Word Origins program developed by the Dyslexia-SPELD Foundation, learning about where words come from and how their meanings help us become stronger readers and writers.

Syntax: Students have been revisiting independent and dependent clauses, practising varied sentence beginnings using subordinating conjunctions. They are now exploring adverbial phrases to add detail and create more interesting sentences.

This term, our Grade 4 students are trying something a little different in Literacy, and we are excited to see them continue to grow as readers and writers!

Literature: Students are diving into two novels, The Wolf Wilder by Katherine Rundell and Pax by Sara Pennypacker. Throughout these lessons, students are enjoying shared reading, completing activities linked to the stories, practising their reading fluency with a partner and spending time reading independently. 

Writing Studies: Our Grade 4 students are busy developing their skills in persuasive and procedural writing. They are continuing to use Multiple Paragraph Outlines (MPOs) to help plan and organise their ideas before turning them into well-structured pieces of writing.

Morphology: Students have begun exploring the Word Origins program developed by the Dyslexia-SPELD Foundation. They are discovering where words come from, what they mean and how understanding their origins can help us become stronger readers and writers.

Syntax: Students are continuing to build their sentence-writing skills by learning how to construct, expand and combine sentences. We are encouraging students to use these skills in their writing to create clearer, more detailed and interesting sentences.