Introduction

TOTALLY ADDICTED TO BASE

Our integrated unit is based around the books of Graeme Base.

Can books save the world?

__Content Area__: Literacy and Numeracy

__VELS Level__: Grades 3 & 4 (Level 3)

__Duration__: 3 weeks

__VELS Standards for Literacy and Numeracy for Progression Points: 2.25, 2.50 & 2.75__  In Literacy, students read and respond to an increasing range of imaginative texts and interpret the main themes. They make inferences from imaginative texts about plot and setting. They are able to use strategies to locate, select and record key information. They write texts containing several logically ordered paragraphs that express opinions and include ideas and information about familiar topics. They write narratives which include characters, setting and plot. They combine verbal and visual elements in the texts they produce. They can vary their speaking and listening and are able to project their voice adequately for an audience. They listen attentively to spoken texts and can identify the topic and retell information accurately.

In Numeracy, students use place value. They skip count forwards and backwards, from various starting points using multiples of 2, 3, 4, 5, 10 and 100. They compute with numbers using all four operations. They provide automatic recall of multiplication facts up to 10 × 10. They devise and use written methods for addition and subtraction up to 999, multiplication by single digits and division by a single-digit divisor. They recognise directions of lines as vertical, horizontal or diagonal. They recognise angles are the result of rotation of lines and can produce simple tessellations. They recognise different types of data, understand number lines and are able to use a column or bar graph. They use lists, Venn diagrams and grids. 

__VELS Learning Focus for Literacy and Numeracy for Progression Points: 2.25, 2.50 & 2.75__ 

In Literacy, students speak, listen, read and write with critical awareness using a growing variety of text types - chapter books, junior novels and poems. They explore characters’ qualities, motives and actions and understand how the choice of subject matter is influenced by context, the author’s purpose and the intended audience. They understand symbolic meanings and stereotypes. Students develop confidence in writing a range of imaginative and informative texts using simple narratives and descriptions. They plan and organize ideas prior to writing and adapt their writing to suit their audience and purpose. Students develop skills in listening attentively during class and group discussions asking clarifying questions, volunteering information and justifying opinions.

In Numeracy, students recognise and explore patterns in numbers and shapes. They recognise angles as parts of shapes and objects. They explore place value and order of numbers to tens of thousands. They skip count to create number patterns. They extend addition and subtraction computations to three digit numbers. They learn to multiply and divide by single digit numbers. Students investigate natural variability in chance events and order them from least likely to most likely. Students collect data to construct simple frequency graphs. They use simple two-way tables to sort non-numerical data. They use structured material (in tens, hundreds and thousands) to develop ideas about multiplication by replication and division by sharing. They learn to recognise practical applications of mathematics in daily life.


 * **Literacy and Numeracy Base(d) Unit:'Based on Base'** ||  ||   ||
 * (Formerly 'Dr LitNum, or How I Learned to Stop Worring and Love Graeme Base') ||  ||   ||
 * Appropriate for the National Curriculum's 'Back to Base-ics' Philosophy ||  ||   ||
 * **VELS:** |||| **Domains, Dimensions, and Standards** ||  ||
 * **Graeme, Base, and Graeme Base Learning** |||| **Base-Based Learning** || **InterBase Learning** ||
 * **Health and Physical Education** || **The Arts** || **The Humanities** || **Communication** ||
 * //Baseball'// || //I don't know much about Base but I know what I like...'// || //More like 'BASEmanities!'// || //I say Graeme, You say Base'// ||
 * Movement and Base activity || Creating and making || Base knowledge and understanding || Listening, viewing and responding to Base ||
 * Base knowledge and promotion || Exploring and responding || Base skills || Presenting Base ||
 * **Interpersonal Development** || Visual Art //(////'Pictograemes')// || **The Humanities – Economics** || **Design, Creativity and Technology** ||
 * //Knowing Me, Knowing You - Graeme Base!'// || //Music// ('Rhythm and Base') || //GFC (Graeme Financial Contribution)'// || //Graeme Designs'// ||
 * Building social Base || Dance //(////'Basement Jaxx'////)// || Economic Base knowledge and understanding || Investigating and designing Base ||
 * Base in teams || Drama //(////'MacBase'////)// || Economic Base reasoning and interpretation || Producing Base ||
 * ||  ||   || Analysing and evaluating Base ||
 * **Personal Learning** || **English** || **The Humanities – Geography** ||  ||
 * //MyBase'// || //Harry Potter and the Tomes of Graeme Base'// || //Where in the World is Graeme Base?'// || **Information and Communications Technology** ||
 * The individual Base || Reading Base || Geographic Graeme knowledge and understanding || //DateBase'// ||
 * Managing personal Base || Writing Base || Geographical Graeme skills || ICT(BASE) for visual thinking ||
 * || Speaking and listening Base ||  || ICT(BASE) for creating ||
 * **Civics and Citizenship** ||  || **The Humanities – History** || ICT(BASE) for communicating ||
 * //Baseocracy'// || **Languages Other Than English** || //Base to the Future'// ||  ||
 * Civic Base knowledge and understanding || //A Base by Any Other Name…'// || Historical Base knowledge and understanding || **Thinking Processes** ||
 * Community Base engagement || Communicating in a language other than Graeme Base || Historical Base reasoning and interpretation || //I Base, therefore I am'// ||
 * || Intercultural Base and Graeme awareness ||  || Reasoning, processing... Basing ||
 * ||  || **Mathematics** ||   ||
 * || **Science** || //The Base Code'// ||  ||
 * || //Acids and Base'// || Number Base ||  ||
 * || Basiology knowledge and understanding || Space Base ||  ||
 * || Base at work || Measurement, chance, data and Base ||  ||
 * ||  || Base Structure ||   ||
 * ||  || Working Mathebasically ||   ||
 * || Base at work || Measurement, chance, data and Base ||  ||
 * ||  || Base Structure ||   ||
 * ||  || Working Mathebasically ||   ||