Primary 3

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In Literacy, this term, children will know and understand:

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  • The terms author and illustrator
  • Books by significant author
  • The similarities/differences between books by same/different author
  • Explanation by finding reasons behind particular events and behaviour in stories
  • How to write simple book evaluations giving reasons for views expressed, using a structure or writing frame
  • How to write sustained stories using knowledge of story elements: plot, setting, characterisation, dialogue and story language
  • The impact of illustrations added to their stories
  • How to use humorous verse as a structure to write own riddles, tongue-twisters, jokes, puzzles, nonsense sentences or alliterative sentences
  • The distinction between fiction and non-fiction
  • How to recognise the difference between why/what/where/when/how questions
  • How to pose questions before reading non-fiction e.g KWL grid
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  • How to use a content and index to locate relevant text
  • How to make simple notes from non-fiction texts
  • How to write simple non-chronological reports, putting key ideas into separate section/paragraph
    Sentence:
  • The need for grammatical agreement, matching verbs to nouns/pronouns – I am/The children are
  • How to use standard forms of verbs in speaking/writing – see/saw
  • How to use tense consistently
  • How to demonstrate understanding of concept of nouns
  • How to write simple compound sentences using the correct punctuation
  • How to use commas in lists
  • How to turn statements into questions
    Word:
  • How to use the correct word endings – s, ed, ing
  • The terms vowel and consonant
  • How to use synonyms
    Talking & Listening:
  • Ask relevant questions
  • Identify what they have learned, a favourite part, main characters, setting, etc.
  • Present parts of traditional stories, own stories or work from different areas of the curriculum for a range of audiences 

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• In Numeracy, this term, children will know and understand how to:
  Processes:
  • Choose and use appropriate number operations and mental strategies to solve problems
  • Select materials and equipment to use in a task e.g. containers for capacity
    Mental Competences:
  • Describe and extend simple number sequences to 100
  • Compare and order no’s to 100 and position them on a number line
  • Find numbers half way between pairs of numbers
  • Subtract 9 or 11
  • Use known number facts and place value to subtract mentally
    Number:
  • Find a small difference by counting from the smallest to the largest e.g. 42 – 39
    Subtract:
  • a single digit from 2 digit 56 - 4
  • 10 from 2 digits e.g. 59 – 10
  • a multiple of 10 from a multiple of 10 e.g. 70 - 30
  • a multiple of 10 from a 2 digit no
  • a teens no from a 2 digit no
• Topic:
  • Use vocabulary to describe position, direction and movement – whole, half, and quarter turns to the left or right, clockwise or anti-clockwise
  • Find the line of symmetry
  • Cover a given area
  • Estimate capacity
  • Solve a given problem by sorting classifying and organising information in simple ways in a list or simple table/diagram

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• In World Around Us, this term, we will be learning how to:
• Examine written and pictorial evidence to find out how the community has changed over time
• Find out about the past from artefacts and objects from the past
• Find out about the past from the memories of older people
• Identify obvious differences between the past and present
• Identify changes that have occurred over time
• Know about some animals including how they grow, move and use their senses
• Observe seasonal changes in the landscape e.g. animals
• Know that heating and cooling can change a material