ENGLISH

Reading and viewing

L3

Identifies and uses the linguistic structures and features characteristic of a range of text types to construct meaning.

Integrates a variety of strategies for interpreting written and visual texts.

With teacher guidance, uses several strategies for identifying resources and finding information in texts.

L4

With teacher guidance, identifies and discusses how linguistic structures and features work to shape readers' and viewers' understanding of texts.

Writing

L3

Recognises that certain text types and features are associated with particular purposes and audiences.

Controls most basic features of written language and experiments with some organisational and linguistic features of different text types.

L4

Adjusts writing to take account of aspects of context, purpose and audience.

SCIENCE

Earth and Beyond

L4

Examines ways scientists investigate the Earth, the solar system and the universe.

Life and Living

L3

Maps relationships between living things in a habitat.

Explains why some living things have become extinct and identifies current endangered species.

L4

Identifies events that affect balance in an ecosystem.

Explains how living things have changed over geological time, using evidence from various sources.

SOCIETY & ENVIRONMENT

Natural systems

L4

Describes responses of different elements to changes in natural systems.

Investigation, Communication and Participation

L3

Frames questions and identifies sources of information.

Presents information to explore a key idea.

L4

Translates information from one form to another.

TECHNOLOGY

Information

L3

Explains how information can be created, constructed, presented, stored and transmitted in different forms for particular audiences and users.