Readers Workshop

Readers Workshop is part of our daily routine and a wonderful way to start the day! As a class we have established our expectations around what makes a good reader and what is a good fit book for each of us. We have been focusing on making connections from our texts to personal experiences, different texts and world events. Next we will be moving on to improving our fluency while reading as well as our comprehension of the text.

Place Value: 

This term in year 3 students have been exploring the place value of 3, 4 and 5 digit numbers. We have investigated different ways of representing these numbers including the expanded notation strategy, written form and rounding them to the nearest 10, 100, and 1000.

Persuasive Writing: 

Students in Year 3 have been exploring how to write a piece of persuasive writing. We have been exploring how to make our writing better to persuade someone by looking at the various features of persuasive writing such as the degrees of modality, which we can classify as ‘high’, ‘medium’ and ‘low’, as well as using persuasive devices, such as personal pronouns, rhetorical questions, exaggeration, cause and effect and facts.    

Inquiry: This term, year 3 students have been learning about Australia’s Neighbours. We have created and labelled maps of Australian states and territories, capital cities and neighbouring countries. We have also researched landmarks around Australia, both natural and man-made and created posters on these. Year 3 students have begun to investigate a neighbouring country of their choice, finding out everything they can about this country. This information learned will be used to create a ‘travel expo’ in early term two to share their knowledge of a country and persuade people to visit.