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: Powerful verbs, spelling rules, narrative point of view, narrative perspective, text analysis
Week 2: Adjectives, showing not telling: characterisation and setting, reading comprehension, changing perspectives
Week 3: Adverbs, describing setting, sensory imagery, speech punctuation
Week 4: Poetry: sound devices, poetry comprehension, linked extracts
Week 5: Informative texts, identifying the main idea, cloze: subheading gap-match, paired texts comprehension
Week 6: Persuasive essay structure, triangle of rhetoric, reading comprehension and analysis, combining sentences
Week 7: Cloze: using context clues, sentence gap-match, formal & informal letters, letter of complaint
Week 8: Cloze: word fill-in-the-blank, proofreading, poetry comprehension
Week 9: Reading and writing assessments & review, quick reviews
Week 10: Spelling quiz, poetry comprehension, linked extracts, paired texts comprehension