Pae Ake
Grow with Learning
What does Literacy look like in Pae Ake?
During Year 3 and 4 your child will be transitioning from learning “how to read” and “how to write” to learning about the world through reading and writing.
Your child could be reading;
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in a small group, with a teacher, learning decoding skills
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to develop their comprehensions skills (such as; summarising, finding key facts, making inferences, combining information from across the text to make a judgement, explaining their thinking using evidence from a text)
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independently from a book of their choice, developing their own personal interest in reading
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a range of non-fiction texts about a subject to increase their knowledge on a subject
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different styles of writing and discussing the language features and why the author chose that, for what purpose. Then using these skills in their own writing
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Your child could be writing;
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to entertain; this could be a narrative story, poem, or a moment in time.
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to persuade; a letter or argument presenting their point of view, an advertisement or slogan.
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to describe; a description of an person, place or object, or recount of a real event.
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to inform; this could be an information report sharing their knowledge of a subject, or an explanation about how something works, or giving clear instructions on how to do something.
Your child could be;
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learning about the language features of each of these writing styles in a small guided workshop with a teacher or as a whole class through shared writing.
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practising their developing skills in the different styles of writing on their own, or with a partner, or even in a small group.
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editing their work - looking to improve the surface features; spelling, punctuation or grammar..
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proof reading their work - improving the quality of the message by adding more detail, giving examples.
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self or peer assessing using a success criteria.
An important aspect of writing is Spelling. Your child will be learning;
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The Essential Spelling words - a list of words that are common in writing
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Word families and phonetic patterns eg. night, sight, light, bright
We have also noticed the children need to be explicitly taught handwriting skills; letter formation, pen grip, size and shape of letters. We have purchased a special book to help with these skills.