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. This course assists in the preparation for Selective High School Placement and Scholarship tests.
Course objectives
Week 1: Inferencing character, narrative plot structure: Freytag’s Pyramid, compare-and-contrast text analysis
Week 2: Starting a story, narrative point of view, character types, text analysis
Week 3: Persuasive essay introduction, body paragraphs and conclusion, brainstorming arguments, identifying the main idea
Week 4: Vocabulary: using context clues, persuasive techniques, linked extracts, sentence gap-match
Week 5: Newspaper report: inverted triangle concept, adding quotations, grammar: changing direct quotations to indirect quotations, poetic devices, poetry comprehension
Week 6: Literary descriptions: setting, figurative language, sensory imagery, poetry comprehension
Week 7: Diary: language features, text analysis, understanding irony, reading comprehension
Week 8: Narrative analysis and comprehension, linked extracts, dialogue punctuation, visual metaphors
Week 9: Reading and writing assessments & review, purple prose
Week 10: Idioms, compare-and-contrast science fiction and fantasy, text analysis and comprehension, quick writes