Year Four
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Curriculum
What to teach 
Curriculum documents are necessary parts of the teaching process. We are judged by them and held accountable by them. Sometimes, however, they are a little difficult to traverse.
Gramatica has provided the Australian Curriculum below as a nationwide standard as well as a Gramatica version, written with Gramatica terminology and in easy to understand language. |
Pedagogy
How to teach it 
How do students learn best? How do they remember? Should we, as teachers, teach to a test? What does the neuroscientific evidence and research say?
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Materials
What to use 
Gramatica unifies the teaching, learning and assessment processes by providing learning materials that link both to the curriculum as well as to the assessment tools.
See the Assessment panel below for more details. |
Special Note
Gramatica focusses almost predominantly on grammar and writing, although it may touch on spelling and phonics on occasion. However, it does not cover handwriting, reading or listening.
For these areas, please use other resources.
For these areas, please use other resources.
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Assessment
How to mark it 
A child's education is a journey of three steps: Teaching, Learning and Assessment. In other words, I teach it, you learn it, I assess it.
When the first two are finished, we then need to assess what children have produced in order to gauge the effectiveness of the first two steps. So how do we assess? Do we use subjective judgements such as Good, Above Satisfactory, or Excellent? Or do we use objective, measurable, visible markers to guide our assessments? |
Year Four
In the old days, when primary school went to Year Seven, Year Four was the halfway point in a child's primary education. Year Four students were Middle Primary, neither in Junior or Senior. I remember thinking how special it was!
Year Four students should have, by the end of the year, mastered the two Clauses, added a considerable amount of vocabulary, refined their use of paragraphs and begun to expand their creative writing. With three years of primary Gramatica learning behind them, they should be confident and competent writers with a sound, practical knowledge of grammar. 
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The Little Blue BookThis is your reference book. It covers everything from the five types of Nouns and three types of Verbs to commas, colons, semi-colons. It even includes a story on the origins of English, and answers the question: Where did English originally come from? No, it's not England.
Read it carefully. Be prepared to unlearn some of the grammar myths you might have carried around for years (No, commas actually don't show us where to breathe, and Verbs are actually far more than just doing words. Be assured, though. The Little Blue Book is written in clear, simple language, with plenty of colour-coded diagrams, stories and metaphors to make the grammar easier. 
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