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: Narrative comprehension, use of italic font, figurative language, poetry comprehension, non-fiction comprehension, proofreading activity
Week 2: Symbolism, poetry comprehension and analysis, narrative comprehension and analysis, speech punctuation, non-fiction comprehension
Week 3: Identifying the main idea, non-fiction comprehension, narrative comprehension and analysis, paired texts comprehension
Week 4: Sound devices in poetry, poetry comprehension and analysis, diary entry, reading comprehension and analysis, speech punctuation activity
Week 5: Active reading, cloze – word fill-in-the-blank, formal & informal letters, letter comprehension, editing activity
Week 6: Paired texts comprehension, compare and contrast diary and letter, linking words, structuring a compare-and-contrast text, poetry comprehension, cloze task
Week 7: Narrative comprehension, cloze – subheadings, cloze – sentence gap-match, cloze – word fill-in-the-blank
Week 8: Poetry comprehension, active and passive voice, persuasive essay structure, PEEL paragraph, text analysis, persuasive essay comprehension, grammar activity
Week 9: Reading and writing assessments & review, linked extracts, poetry comprehension
Week 10: Non-fiction and poetry comprehension, sentence gap-match