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The Essentials – Year four

My fourth-year ring binder

Carlo Scataglini

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Product: Book

Trim size in cm: 21x29,7cm

Pages: 120

ISBN: 9788859019183

Publication date: 01/09/2019

Suitable for: Primary 2nd level (ages 8-10)


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An inclusive material which is useful for the entire class, but especially for those pupils with greater educational difficulties, pupils with disabilities and pupils with Special Educational Needs.

The Essentials objective is to give students the possibility to learn fundamental concepts of different subjects through guided writing and drawing activities, and give to every pupil the possibility to collaborate and work with his/her companions on common topics.

The ring binder contains 120 worksheets which introduce the main topics in the history, geography and science curricula for primary year four.

The essential contents for each subject are presented in 3 types of worksheet, in order to introduce, share with classmates and summarise the individual topics:

  • Introductory worksheets, where simplified and facilitated subject contents are presented in line with the curriculum;
  • Cooperative worksheets to complete or build together with a classmate or in a group;
  • Target worksheets, for revising the content learnt using transversal competences and abilities with maps, time lines and stickers.

The binder design enables pupils to insert new original worksheets for individual or group use, expanding the essential subject teaching material available to the class.


HISTORY


  • The river civilizations

  • The Mediterranean civilizations


GEOGRAPHY

  • Geographic maps

  • The climate

  • The Italian landscape


SCIENCE

  • The natural environment

  • Life on earth

  • Ecology



The Essentials: the folder for learning and inclusion

Created by Carlo Scataglini to address the main topics of history, geography, science and maths for years 3rd to 5th of primary school.
Each volume of The Essentials is composed of a ring-binder and 120 worksheets on the main topics from the history, geography, science and maths programme in third, fourth and fifth grade. These inclusive materials are particularly aimed at pupils with greater educational difficulties, pupils with disabilities and pupils with Special Educational Needs. The structure of each folder allows students to insert new, original, individual and group worksheets, expanding the teaching material available to the whole class. The worksheet folder is accompanied by a user’s guide for the teacher.

Text Objectives

With The Essentials two objectives to be reached are proposed:
  • give the students with increased learning difficulties the possibility to learn fundamental concepts in the subject area, through guided writing and drawing activities, completion and colouring activities, with worksheets that deal directly with the subject themes and contents for the class indicated
  • give the whole class the possibility to collaborate and work with each other on common topics, while at the same time encouraging the class to create additional worksheets to add to the folder, in order to increase the subject materials available for everyone.

Subject contents

Each binder is divided in three sections covering topics about history, geography and science. Another binder covers just maths topics.

History, geography and science - Year three

  • History
    • The origin of the earth and the birth of man
    • The appearance of man and the Paleolithic
    • The Neolithic and the Metal Ages
  • Geography
    • The areas on land
    • The areas in water
  • Science
    • Matter and states of matter
    • The world of living things
Find out more!

History, geography and science - Year four

  • History
    • The river civilizations
    • The Mediterranean civilizationsc
  • Geography
    • Geographic maps
    • The climate
    • The Italian landscape
  • Science
    • The natural environment
    • Life on earth
    • Ecology
Find out more!

History, geography and science - Year five

  • History
    • The Greek Civilization
    • Ancient Italy and the birth of Rome
    • The Roman Empire
  • Geography
    • Italy and Europe
    • The regions of Italy
  • Science
    • The human body
    • The earth and the solar system
Find out more!

Maths - Year three

  • Operations
    • Numbers up to 20, 100, 1,000; Units, tens, hundreds
    • Addition, subtraction, Multiplication and times tables, Division;
    • fractions and decimal numbers
  • Problem-solving
    • Word problems
  • Space and shapes
    • Measures
    • Lines and angles
    • Polygons, Solids, Symmetry
    • Grids and coordinates
Find out more!

Structure of the text

Each binder provides three different kinds of sheets:
  • Pathway worksheets
  • Cooperative worksheets “Strength in numbers”
  • Goal worksheets
In order not to burden the cognitive load of the worksheets, the deliveries addressed to the students were summarized in easy-access icons.

Pathway Worksheets

The Pathway Worksheets present essential key concepts on the main topics from the various subjects in a simplified way. In the Pathway Worksheets,  more precisely, the essential aspects of the disciplinary contents are proposed in order to allow students with greater difficulties the possibility to participate and complete the activity.  In particular, the Pathway Worksheets require the students to:
  • trace and colour the titles written with dotted lines
  • colour the pictures
  • write, tracing the words written with dotted lines
  • draw, completing the unfinished pictures
  • write, completing the unfinished words
  • match imagines 
  • match words to pictures

Cooperative Worksheets

The Cooperative Worksheets “strength in numbers” propose activities that require interaction among the students: in some cases the work is organized in partners, and in others, small groups. Even in this case, the exercises require the students to complete, trace or color in words or drawings, and in many cases, to re-elaborate  information that the children already know or have learned in the activities related to the Pathway Worksheets.

Goal Worksheets

The Goal Worksheets can be found at the end of each chapter and summarize the most important aspects of information proposed in the various Pathways Worksheets.  They are in A3 format, double the size of the other worksheets, and can be consulted at any time as a synthesis element for all the students. The A3 format also allows them to be used as summary posters to hang on the walls, always available to all students in the class. The Goal Worksheets also offer the students the possibility to actively re-elaborate the information, completing some portions of text or illustrations, by hand or with the use of the stickers supplied in the folder.

The author

Carlo Scataglini Specialized teacher and author of numerous narrative and facilitated teaching texts. 



Thematic Areas
History/Geography/Science > History and geography
 History/Geography/Science > Science
 History/Geography/Science