‫منارة الشرقية‬

Grade
Three
End of Year Examination
Revision Guide
May 2011

English, Maths, Science,

Social Studies,
Islamic Studies (in
English) and I.T.
 Grade Three End of Year Revision Guide – May 2011

16th May 2011

‫السالم عليكم و رحمة ﷲ و بركاته‬

Dear parents,

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

This examination week is testing a selection of the material that we’ve

covered since the midyear point of the academic year.

There will be a revision week prior to the examination week. The

revision week will start 4th June 2011. Subject teachers will give
students additional revision worksheets to complete during those
revision lessons.

The following provides a summary of what topics can be revised at

home.

Information on Arabic and other subjects should follow from the

teachers 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 will be spread over two exam papers.

English Paper 1 – Comprehension and Grammar

English Paper 2 – Creative Writing and Spelling

Subject Exam Revision Work

Reading Unseen Reading Text

Unseen Comprehension Passage: more

Comprehension
information given below

Spelling
Listed in a table below

Grammar Listed in the table below

Narrative or Summary: Practice examples in
Creative Writing
study 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 is
about fantasy or realism. Recognising order in stories, what happened
first or last in a story.

The story is always an unseen passage.

The children will then be asked questions that will show whether or not
they’ve understood the story. The questions will follow many different
formats 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 nest

b. to see how heavy it is
c. to hide it from bears
d. 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 egg

b. after the ice melted
c. before the parents sang together
d. before the egg hatched

This is a difficult topic to revise, as it’s a skill rather than the

memorisation of facts. However, to help encourage this skill in the
children you can have your son answer the given comprehension
questions in the study pack (to follow).

Spelling

We will retest the children on a selection of the words that we have

covered in recent spelling tests.

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

Prefixes
Syllable More
Vowels pre-, Suffixes - Syllable Suffixes -
Patterns Vowel
sounds mid-, er, -or, - Pattern Homophones y, -ish, -
CVVC, Sound in
with r over-, ess, -ist VCCCV hood, -
CVV ball
out- ment
third prepaid dentist monster create to thought childhood
perfect midnight editor pilgrim radio two bought selfish
worm midpoint lioness surprise video our daughter treatment
dirty overflow hostess explode duo hour ought movement
thirsty outline chemist control patio stair sought childish

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Grammar

Please revise the following topics and skills.

Grammar & Writing

Topic Practice Book
Page Numbers
Irregular 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 more
concise look at the subject material.

Chapter/Lesson Textbook
Lesson 1 What are Earth's layers? 223
Chapter 8
Lesson 3 What are weathering and erosion? 230

Lesson 1 What are resources? 274

Chapter 9
Lesson 2 How can we protect our resources? 250
Lesson 1 How can we describe matter? 279
Chapter 10 Lesson 2 How are properties of matter
measured? 284
Lesson 1 What are physical changes in
303
matter?
Chapter 11
Lesson 3 What are chemical changes in
310
matter?
Lesson 1 What happens when things change
327
position?
Chapter 12
Lesson 3 How do simple machines affect
338
work?

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Lesson 1 What is energy? 359

Lesson 2 How does energy change form? 362
Chapter 13
Lesson 3 What is heat energy? 366
Lesson 4 What is light energy? 370

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

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

Corresponding page
Topic
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
7-7 Dividing with 3 and 4 388
7-8 Dividing with 6 and 7 390
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 446
8-8 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 566
10-4 Adding and Subtracting Decimals 572

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 - 7
Lsn 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 – 70
Lsn 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
( in English) )
Please refer to the Islamic Studies Grade 3 book by Maulvi AbdulAziz
when 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) and
part will be practical (i.e. students will have to demonstrate that they
are 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 son
normally has I.T.

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

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

The I.T. teachers will hand out some revision worksheets during the
week 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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