G3 End of Year Revision Guide [May 2011]

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End of Year ExaminationRevision Guide

May 2011

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Grade Three End of Year Revision Guide – May 2011

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16th May 2011

Dear parents,

The End of Year examination week will begin on Saturday the 11th June 2011. Information on the exact dates for specific subjects willfollow shortly in a letter from the school.

This examination week is testing a selection of the material that we’vecovered since the midyear point of the academic year.

There will be a revision week prior to the examination week. Therevision week will start 4th June 2011. Subject teachers will give

students additional revision worksheets to complete during thoserevision lessons.

The following provides a summary of what topics can be revised athome.

Information on Arabic and other subjects should follow from theteachers of those subjects.

This booklet includes information on: English, Maths, Science, Social

Studies, Islamic Studies (in English) and I.T.

Thank you.

(Grade Three Teachers)




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English English English English English will be spread over two exam papers.

English Paper 1 – Comprehension and GrammarEnglish Paper 2 – Creative Writing and Spelling

Subject Exam Revision Work

Reading Unseen Reading Text

Comprehension Unseen Comprehension Passage: moreinformation given below

SpellingListed in a table below

Grammar Listed in the table below

Creative WritingNarrative or Summary: Practice examples instudy pack (to follow).

Comprehension

This subject tests the child’s comprehension of the text and stories,including concepts such as the characters and how they feel.Knowing where stories are set. He needs to know whether the story isabout fantasy or realism. Recognising order in stories, what happenedfirst or last in a story.

The story is always an unseen passage.

The children will then be asked questions that will show whether or notthey’ve understood the story. The questions will follow many differentformats to test the learners understanding of the story.

Examples of comprehension style questions:

1. Why did the male emperor penguin hold his egg on his feet?

a. to carry it to the nestb. to see how heavy it is

c. to hide it from bearsd. to make sure it is warm




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2. When did the mother penguin leave the rookery?

a. before the father took the eggb. after the ice melted

c. before the parents sang togetherd. before the egg hatched

This is a difficult topic to revise, as it’s a skill rather than thememorisation of facts. However, to help encourage this skill in thechildren you can have your son answer the given comprehensionquestions in the study pack (to follow).

Spelling

We will retest the children on a selection of the words that we havecovered in recent spelling tests.

Please revise the following words. We will select 20 words from thetable for the exam.

Vowels

sounds

with r

Prefixes

pre-,

mid-,

over-,

out-

Suffixes -

er, -or, -

ess, -ist

Syllable

Pattern

VCCCV

Syllable

Patterns

CVVC,

CVV

Homophones

More

Vowel

Sound in

ball

Suffixes -

y, -ish, -

hood, -

ment thirdperfectwormdirtythirsty

prepaidmidnightmidpointoverflowoutline

dentisteditorlionesshostesschemist

monsterpilgrimsurpriseexplode

control

createradiovideoduopatio

totwoourhourstair

thoughtboughtdaughter

oughtsought

childhoodselfish

treatmentmovement

childish




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Grammar

Please revise the following topics and skills.

Topic

Grammar & Writing

Practice Book

Page NumbersIrregular Verbs 134 to 137

Singular and Plural Pronouns 140 to 143

Subject and Object Pronouns 146 to 149

Contractions 158 to 161

Prepositions 164 to 167

Adjectives and Articles 170 to 173

Adjectives that Compare 176 to 179

Adverb 182 to 185

Adverbs that Compare 188 to 191

Conjunctions 194 to 197

Science Revise the following in the Science Textbook

Please refer to the study booklet that will follow shortly for a moreconcise look at the subject material.

Chapter/Lesson Textbook

Chapter 8Lesson 1 What are Earth's layers?Lesson 3 What are weathering and erosion?

223230

Chapter 9 Lesson 1 What are resources?Lesson 2 How can we protect our resources?

274250

Chapter 10

Lesson 1 How can we describe matter?Lesson 2 How are properties of mattermeasured?

279

284

Chapter 11

Lesson 1 What are physical changes inmatter?Lesson 3 What are chemical changes inmatter?

303

310

Chapter 12

Lesson 1 What happens when things changeposition?Lesson 3 How do simple machines affectwork?

327

338




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Chapter 13

Lesson 1 What is energy?Lesson 2 How does energy change form?Lesson 3 What is heat energy?Lesson 4 What is light energy?

359362366370

Mathematics Mathematics Mathematics Mathematics Please revise the following topics that we have covered in theMathematics text book.

Please refer to the study booklet that will follow shortly for a moreconcise look at the subject material.

TopicCorresponding page

Mathematics Textbook

6-1 3 as a Factor 316

6-2 4 as a Factor 318

6-3 6 and 7 as Factors 320

7-1 Division as Sharing 370

7-2 Division as Repeated Subtraction 372

7-6 Dividing with 2 and 5 386



8-1 Solid Figures 428

8-2 Relating Solids and Shapes 432

8-4 Lines and Line Segments 442

8-5 Angles 444

8-6 Polygons 4468-8 Quadrilaterals 454

8-9 Congruent Figures and Motion 456

8-10 Symmetry 460

8-11 Perimeter 464

9-1 Equal Parts of a Whole 498

9-2 Naming Fractional Parts 502

9-3 Equivalent Fractions 504

9-4 Comparing and Ordering Fractions 506




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9-6 Fractions on the Number Line 512

9-10 Mixed Numbers 522

10-1 Tenths 564

10-2 Hundredths 56610-4 Adding and Subtracting Decimals 572

Social Studies Social Studies Social Studies Social Studies Please revise the following selection of topics covered in the Health &

Fitness book.

Topic Textbook

Ch 1: Lsn 1- Bones, Muscles and Nerves Pages 4 - 7Lsn 2 - Breathing and Digestion Pages 8 - 13

Lsn 3 - Grow and Change Pages 14 - 17

Lsn 4 - Growth Rate Pages 18 - 21

Lsn 5 - Taking Care of Your Body Pages 24 - 27

Ch 2: Lsn 1 - Your Skin Pages 32 - 35

Lsn 2 - Your Teeth and Gums Pages 36 - 40

Lsn 3 - Your Ears, Eyes and Nose Pages 42 - 45

Ch 3: Lsn 1 - Why Body Needs Food Pages 60 - 63

Lsn 2 - Food Guide Pyramid Pages 64 – 67

Lsn 3 - Healthful Foods Pages 68 – 70Lsn 4 - Wise Shopper Pages 72 – 75

Lsn 5 - Handling Food Safely Pages 78 – 80

Ch 4: Lsn 1 - Keeping Body Fit Pages 86 – 90

Lsn 2 - Staying Safe Pages 92 – 97

Lsn 3 - Health Sleep and Rest Pages 100 - 102

Islamic Studies Islamic Studies Islamic Studies Islamic Studies

( in in in in English English English English ) )

Please refer to the Islamic Studies Grade 3 book by Maulvi AbdulAzizwhen revising this subject.

Topic Page numbers

Ch 14 – Pure Water 70 – 73

Ch 15 – Cleanliness 75 – 76

Ch 16 - Tahaarah – Purity 79 - 80




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Ch 17 - Wudhu 82 – 83

Ch 18 - How to Perform Wudhu 85 – 87

Ch 19–23 - Prophet Muhammad parts 1 to 5 89 – 107

I.T. Part of the I.T. exam will be theory based (i.e. answering questions) andpart will be practical (i.e. students will have to demonstrate that theyare able to perform certain tasks on the computer)

I.T. Exam Dates

The I.T. exam (theory and practical) is held during the revision week(i.e. the week 4th Jun to 8th Jun). It will take place during the students’normal I.T. periods of that week.

Please refer to any recent weekly planner to see which days your sonnormally has I.T.

The first period of the week will be the theory and the second thepractical. Those students who are timetabled to have two I.T. lessons inthe same day will do the exam parts together.

Here are a summary of the core skills that the students should havegrasped.

The I.T. teachers will hand out some revision worksheets during theweek starting 28th May targeting some of these skills.

Chapter: 6 (Theory and Practical)Lesson: 1-2-3-4-5-6-7

(the theory you can cover it from the worksheets)

He should know:

What is multimedia? How to open the Microsoft PowerPoint program

Adding Text to a slide Adding bullets and clip art to a slide Adding animation Adding a design to your slide

Viewing the presentation Printing the presentation




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Chapter: 7 (Theory and Practical)Lesson: 1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9-10

(you can cover it from the worksheets)

He should know: How to open the Microsoft Excel program What is a spreadsheet? Moving around a spreadsheet Understanding and finding the cell address

Enter data into a spreadsheet Extend the cell Changing the color of text Changing the cell background

Cell border

Using AutoSum button Formatting for currency Creating a column, pie and line chart

Printing a spreadsheet

Chapter: 4 (Theory and Practical)Lesson: 1-2-3-4-7

(Cover it from the book)

He should know:

What are the internet and the web How to open any web address Searching on internet

Saving Favourites Safety on the internet

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G3 End of Year Revision Guide [May 2011]