1. Junior School Curriculum and Team Work in 2012

2. A LITERACY SESSION
Spelling- language, flashcards (spell, sound, syllable, phonemic awareness, context and meaning, activities
Writing-: planning, modelling, monitoring, editing, follow up, correction, skills required for genres
Reading- SRA/ Guided Reading/ Comprehension – CARS and STARS

3. Reading Reading groups (whole, small, whole) Fitzroy Reading Program
Home Reading
SRA Boxes – Year level systems consistent
CARS and STARS – students have own resources.
Assessment includes State benchmarking, Fountis and Pinnal and TORCH.

4. Writing Modelling writing process
Planning, writing conventions of punctuation, grammar, revising, proof reading
NAPLAN Assessment Matrix
Persuasive and narrative Scope and Sequence
Publish a minimum of 2 pieces per term
Encourage STUDENT editing

5. Spelling Spelling Mastery Phonics Rules Jolly Phonics
Frequently used words
Word Meanings and context
Written activities
language

6. Handwriting Minimum of one formal handwriting lesson per week
Second handwriting activity can be integrated (Inquiry or Science)
Pencil grip and posture to be monitored at every level – look at back of text book
Monitor bookwork

7. A NUMERACY SESSION Counting Automatic response Mental arithmetic
Focus- 4 operations
Application- correction/monitoring
Ploughing back- What have we learnt today?

8. Typical Mathematics Lesson
5 minutes oral counting
10 minutes mental arithmetic
10-20 minutes explicit lesson (I do and we do)
minutes independent activity
5-10 minutes sharing

9. OoOne thousand, two hundred
h d h ff
ddddaaa Th H T O 1 2 4 3
1243
12 hundred and 4 tens, 3 ones
124 tens, 3 ones
1243 ones
OoOne thousand, two hundred
and forty-three

10. Expectations
Majority of Mathematics expectations have been lifted with new MM
See other teachers complete sessions in all levels so that you know the cohort moving through.
Ruling of maths grid books consistent
Abbreviated date is a mathematical skill
SMART lessons

11. LITERACY and NUMERACY Setting minimum rigorous benchmarks
Fast paced learning to manage the core curriculum
Intense and rigorous instruction
Moving away from learning centres and group work
Warm ups and reviews
Moving knowledge to long term memory
Repetition and multiple exposures

12. Emphasis on time on task
working noise
Listening skills
focused learning
group work is teacher monitored
Explicit instruction
Bookwork presentation
Roving
Students actively engaged in the learning process
FIRST 15 MINUTES OF DAY??

13. Everyone has a copy
JS Common Language for teacher and student automatic response
Literacy
Di graph – two letters that make one sound (ea, ee)
Tri-graph – three letters that make one sound (igh)
Quad-graph – four letters that make one sound (ough)
Morphograph – gives the word meaning ( est =the most)
Syllable - A part of a word
Short vowel sounds
Long vowel sounds
A good listener – looks at the speaker
Noun – something you can see and touch
Adjectives – describe nouns, go before nouns
Verb – action word
Adverb – ads to the verb
Commas go after time connectives
Numeracy
What is a fraction – part of a whole
Words for addition – add, sum, altogether, plus, total
Words for subtraction – subtract, minus, how many left, take away, difference
Words for multiplication – lots of, groups of, times, multiply, product
Words for division – divide, split, share between, how many each,
Regroup – not borrow or trade
YCDI
Gary Get Along
Charlie Confidence
Penny Persistence
Olivia Organisation
Rosie Resilience
 Science
Hypothesis – guess, estimate
Procedure sentences start with verbs