In Year 4, students engage in a large range of Reading activities to support their reading fluency and comprehension skills. Through text studies and targeted reading comprehension lessons students learn to make connections, find the main idea, understand fact and opinion, understand the author's purpose, find literal and inferred meaning, and make predictions about a story. They further develop their independent reading skills to build fluency, expression and tone when reading aloud.
Students will fengage in a variety of genre writing including recounts, narratives – realistic and fantasy, sizzling starts, sensational endings, plot and character development and tightening tension, expositions – arguing for and against a particular topic, information reports, poetry, procedures, and transactional texts – e.g. letters and emails. They will also engage in targeted lessons to further develop their understanding and use of grammar – e.g. pronouns, nouns, verbs, adverbs, adjectives, connectives and tenses, vocabulary, punctuation – capital letters, full stops, question marks, commas, exclamation marks, quotation marks, ellipses, question marks, dashes and brackets, and handwriting.
In Mathematics students will continue to develop their numeracy and fluency skills in the areas of place value, regrouping and the Base 10 system, the four operations - Addition, subtraction, multiplication and division, number sequences and number patterns, measurement – length, perimeter, area and volume, 2D shapes and 3D objects, fractions, decimals and money, time, maps and location, angles, chance and data, graphing, and problem solving.
In Year 4, students will also participate in the following programs:
