This course is designed to foster a love for language through interactive and age-appropriate activities. Students will engage in reading and writing exercises that promote language development and comprehension across a range of text types, such as information reports, narratives, opinion pieces and news articles. The weekly writing task is based on the reading activities, allowing students the opportunity to practise what they've learnt, thus building essential skills for effective comprehension and communication.
Course objectives
Vocabulary is included in most weeks. Homework includes a writing task that is teacher-marked, and other activities that are self-marked. There is no homework in week 10.
Week 1: How to read a poem, poetic devices, poetry analysis, persuasive writing – hamburger structure, persuasive text analysis, proofreading
Week 2: Grammar – modality & connectives, combining sentences, cloze, poetry comprehension, persuasive text analysis
Week 3: Punctuation – commas, reading comprehension, identifying the main idea, persuasive text analysis
Week 4: Poetry comprehension, compare and contrast: speech vs writing, persuasive speech analysis, identifying the main idea, proofreading
Week 5: Identifying the main idea, cloze – subheadings, persuasive text comprehension and analysis, compare and contrast persuasive texts, grammar – combining sentences
Week 6: Identifying the main idea – subheadings, poetry analysis, formal and informal language, diary entry analysis – features and structure
Week 7: Cloze – word fill-in-the-blank, making inferences, narrative comprehension and analysis, proofreading
Week 8: Cloze – predicting, poetry analysis, describing characters, text analysis, cloze
Week 9: Reading and writing assessments & review, poetry – limericks, cloze, spelling
Week 10: Informative text reading comprehension, setting – text analysis, brainstorm – imagining settings