In Year 6, students will be working hard to understand how the use of text structures can achieve particular effects by analysing and explaining how language features, images and vocabulary are used by different authors to represent ideas, characters, and events. Students will be involved in activities including making connections, finding specific literal information, inferring meaning, making predictions, asking and answering questions, finding the main idea of a text, summarising a text or part of a text, comparing and contrasting author's style, researching, and identifying analytical images. Students will also continue to develop their fluency and comprehension skills when reading independently.
Students will continue to build their knowledge of writing by planning, drafting and publishing imaginative, procedural, informative and persuasive texts, narratives, expositions - for and against topics, poetry, and transactional texts such as letters and emails. They will continue to develop their editing skills with a focus on improving their writing pieces. Targetd writing lessons will focus on grammar, vocabulary, and punctuation use. MSL lessons will focus on spellig rules and word origins.
In Year 6, students will continue to develop their understanding and skills in the areas of Place Value, Fractions and Decimals, Percentages, Four Operations, Integers, Financial discounts, Powers of ten, Rational numbers, Cartesian plane, Units of measurement – time, area, length, capacity, and volume, Timetables, Angles, Transformations, Pyramids and Prisms, Data collection and graphing, Probability and Ratios.
In Year 6, students will also participate in the following programs:
