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Mapping for topic 6

Last updated 14 July 2020

The following maps Paying It Forward, Year 3 and Year 4, Topic 6: Improving my community to the Western Australia syllabuses.

Mapping for topic 6 Year 3

English

Text structure and organisation

  • Understand that paragraphs are a key organisational feature of written texts (ACELA1479) – activity 3

Expressing and developing ideas

  • Understand that a clause is a unit of grammar usually containing a subject and a verb and that these need to be in agreement (ACELA1481) – activity 3

Phonics and word knowledge

  • Understand how to use letter-sound relationships and less common letter patterns to spell words (ACELA1485) – activity 3
  • Recognise and know how to write most high frequency words including some homophones (ACELA1486) – activity 3

Interacting with others

  • Listen to and contribute to conversations and discussions to share information and ideas and negotiate in collaborative situations (ACELY1676) – activities 1, 4
  • Use interaction skills, including active listening behaviours and communicate in a clear, coherent manner using a variety of everyday and learned vocabulary and appropriate tone, pace, pitch and volume (ACELY1792) – activities 1, 4
  • Plan and deliver short presentations, providing some key details in logical sequence (ACELY1677) – activity 6

Creating texts

  • Plan, draft and publish imaginative, informative and persuasive texts demonstrating increasing control over text structures and language features and selecting print, and multimodal elements appropriate to the audience and purpose (ACELY1682) – activity 3
  • Re-read and edit texts for meaning, appropriate structure, grammatical choices and punctuation (ACELY1683) – activity 3
  • Use software including word processing programs with growing speed and efficiency to construct and edit texts featuring visual, print and audio elements (ACELY1685) – activities 3, 5

Mathematics

  • Identify questions or issues for categorical variables. Identify data sources and plan methods of data collection and recording (ACMSP068) – activity 1
  • Collect data, organise into categories and create displays using lists, tables, picture graphs and simple column graphs, with and without the use of digital technologies (ACMSP069) – activity 1
  • Interpret and compare data displays (ACMSP070) – activity 1

HASS

Inquiry and skills

  • Identify current understanding of a topic (e.g. brainstorm, KWL chart) (WAHASS26) – activities 1, 2
  • Locate and collect information from a variety of sources (e.g. photographs, maps, books, interviews, internet) (WAHASS28) – activity 1
  • Record selected information and/or data (e.g. use graphic organisers, develop note-taking strategies) (WAHASS29) – activity 1
  • Interpret data and information displayed in pictures and texts and on maps (ACHASSI007, ACHASSI024, ACHASSI040) – activity 1
  • Draw conclusions and give explanations, based on the information and/or data displayed in texts, tables, graphs and maps (e.g. show similarities and differences) (WAHASS35) – activities 1, 4
  • Use decision-making processes (e.g. share views, recognise different points of view, identify issues, identify possible solutions, plan for action in groups) (WAHASS36) – activities 4, 5
  • Present findings and conclusions in a range of communication forms (e.g. written, oral, visual, digital, tabular, graphic), appropriate to audience and purpose, using relevant terms (WAHASS37) – activities 1, 3, 6
  • Reflect on learning, identify new understandings and act on findings in different ways (e.g. complete a KWL chart, propose action in response to new knowledge) (WAHASS39) – activities 5, 6

Civics and citizenship

  • Communities make decisions in different ways and voting is a way that groups make decisions democratically (ACHASSK070) – activity 1
  • Why people participate in community groups, such as a school or community project, and how students can actively participate and contribute to their local community (ACHASSK072) – activities 5, 6

Health and Physical Education

  • Behaviours that show empathy and respect for others (ACPPS037) – activity 4

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Mapping for topic 6 Year 4

English

Text structure and organisation

  • Understand how texts are made cohesive through the use of linking devices including pronoun reference and text connectives (ACELA1491) – activity 3
  • Expressing and developing ideas Understand that the meaning of sentences can be enriched through the use of noun groups/ phrases and verb groups/phrases and prepositional phrases (ACELA1493) – activity 3

Phonics and word knowledge

  • Understand how to use knowledge of letter patterns including double letters, spelling generalisations, morphemic word families, common prefixes and suffixes and word origins to spell more complex words (ACELA1779) – activity 3
  • Read and write a large core of high frequency words including homophones and know how to use context to identify correct spelling (ACELA1780) – activity 3

Interacting with others

  • 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 and information (ACELY1687) – activities 2, 4
  • Use interaction skills such as acknowledging another’s point of view and linking students’ response to the topic, using familiar and new vocabulary and a range of vocal effects such as tone, pace, pitch and volume to speak clearly and coherently (ACELY1688) – activities 1, 4
  • Plan, rehearse and deliver presentations incorporating learned content and taking into account the particular purposes and audiences (ACELY1689) – activity 6

Creating texts

  • Plan, draft and publish imaginative, informative and persuasive texts containing key information and supporting details for a widening range of audiences, demonstrating increasing control over text structures and language features (ACELY1694) – activity 3
  • Re-read and edit for meaning by adding, deleting or moving words or word groups to improve content and structure (ACELY1695) – activity 3
  • Use a range of software including word processing programs to construct, edit and publish written text, and select, edit and place visual, print and audio elements (ACELY1697) – activities 3, 5

Mathematics

  • Select and trial methods for data collection, including survey questions and recording sheets (ACMSP095) – activity 1
  • Construct suitable data displays, with and without the use of digital technologies, from given or collected data. Include tables, column graphs and picture graphs where one picture can represent many data values (ACMSP096) – activity 1
  • Evaluate the effectiveness of different displays in illustrating data features including variability (ACMSP097) – activity 1

HASS

Inquiry and skills

  • Identify current understanding of a topic (e.g. brainstorm, KWL chart) (WAHASS26) – activities 1, 2
  • Locate and collect information from a variety of sources (e.g. photographs, maps, books, interviews, internet) (WAHASS28) – activity 1
  • Record selected information and/or data (e.g. use graphic organisers, develop note-taking strategies) (WAHASS29) – activity 1
  • Interpret data and information displayed in pictures and texts and on maps (ACHASSI007, ACHASSI024, ACHASSI040) – activity 1
  • Draw conclusions and give explanations, based on the information and/or data displayed in texts, tables, graphs and maps (e.g. show similarities and differences) (WAHASS35) – activities 1, 2, 4
  • Use decision-making processes (e.g. share views, recognise different points of view, identify issues, identify possible solutions, plan for action in groups) (WAHASS36) – activities 4, 5
  • Present findings and conclusions in a range of communication forms (e.g. written, oral, visual, digital, tabular, graphic), appropriate to audience and purpose, using relevant terms (WAHASS37) – activities 1, 3, 6
  • Reflect on learning, identify new understandings and act on findings in different ways (e.g. complete a KWL chart, propose action in response to new knowledge) (WAHASS39) – activities 5, 6

Civics and citizenship

  • The purpose of government and some familiar services provided by local government (e.g. libraries, health, arts, parks, environment and waste, pools and sporting facilities, pet management) (ACHASSK091) – activities 1, 2, 3, 5

Health and Physical Education

  • The positive influence of respect, empathy and the valuing of differences in relationships (ACPPS037) – activity 4

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Mapping for topic 6 general capabilities

Literacy

Comprehending texts through listening, reading, and viewing element

  • 1.1 Comprehend texts – activity 3
  • 1.2 Navigate, read and view learning area texts – activity 3
  • 1.3 Listen and respond to learning area texts – activities 3, 5
  • 1.4 Interpret and analyse learning area texts – activity 3

Composing texts through listening, reading, and viewing element

  • 2.1 Compose texts – activity 3
  • 2.2 Compose spoken, written, visual and multimodal learning area texts – activity 3
  • 2.3 Use language to interact with others – activities 1, 4
  • 2.4 Deliver presentations – activity 6

Text knowledge element

  • 3.1 Use knowledge of text structures – activity 3
  • 3.2 Use knowledge of text cohesion – activity 3

Grammar knowledge element

  • 4.1 Use knowledge of sentence structures – activity 3
  • 4.2 Use knowledge of words and word groups – activity 3
  • 4.3 Express opinion and point of view – activity 3

Word knowledge element

  • 5.1 Understand learning area vocabulary – activity 3
  • 5.2 Use spelling knowledge – activity 3

Numeracy

Interpreting statistical information element

  • 5.1 Interpret data displays – activity 1

Information and Communication Technology capability (ICT)

Creating with ICT element

  • 3.1 Generate ideas, plans and processes – activity 5
  • 3.2 Generate solutions to challenges and learning area tasks – activities 3, 5

Managing and operating ICT element

  • 5.1 Select and use hardware and software – activities 3, 5, 6

Critical and creative thinking

Inquiring – Identifying, exploring and organising information and ideas element

  • 1.2 Identify and clarify information and ideas – activity 2
  • 1.3 Organise and process information – activity 2

Generating ideas, possibilities and actions element

  • 2.1 Imagine possibilities and connect ideas – activities 2, 3
  • 2.3 Seek solutions and put ideas into action – activity 3

Reflecting on thinking and processes element

  • 3.2 Reflect on processes – activity 6
  • 3.3 Transfer knowledge into new contexts – activity 2

Analysing, synthesising and evaluating reasoning and procedures element

  • 4.1 Apply logic and reasoning – activity 3
  • 4.2 Draw conclusions and design a course of action – activities 2, 5
  • 4.3 Evaluate procedures and outcomes – activity 6

Personal and social capability

Social awareness element

  • 3.1 Appreciate diverse perspectives
  • 3.2 Contribute to civil society

Social management element

  • 4.5 Develop leadership skills – activity 5

Ethical understanding

Exploring values, rights and responsibilities element

  • 3.2 Explore rights and responsibilities – activity 4

Intercultural understanding

Recognising culture and developing respect element

  • 1.3 Develop respect for cultural diversity – activity 4

Interacting and empathising with others element

  • 2.2 Consider and develop multiple perspectives – activity 4
  • 2.3 Empathise with others – activity 4

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