Class 4 English

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• Reading strategies

 

• Main idea

  • Use key details to determine the main idea

  • Determine the main idea of a passage

  • Combine main ideas from two texts

• Theme

  • Determine the themes of myths, fables and folktales

• Author's purpose

  • Identify the purpose of a text

• Text structure

  • Determine the order of events in informational texts

  • Compare and contrast in informational texts

  • Match causes and effects in informational texts

  • Match problems with their solutions

  • Identify text structures

• Sensory details

  • Sort sensory details

• Literary devices

  • Identify similes and metaphors

  • Determine the meanings of similes and metaphors

  • Analyse the effects of figures of speech on meaning and tone

• Point of view

  • Distinguish characters' points of view

• Inference

  • Use actions and dialogue to understand characters

  • Compare and contrast characters

  • Draw inferences from a text

  • Make predictions about a story

• Story elements

  • Identify story elements

• Visual elements

  • Compare mythological illustrations

• Literary texts: level 1

  • Read fantasy with illustrations

  • Read realistic fiction with illustrations

  • Read science fiction with illustrations

• Literary texts: level 2

  • Read realistic fiction

  • Read historical fiction

  • Read poetry

  • Read drama

• Informational texts: level 1

  • Read about animals

  • Read about art, music and traditions

  • Read about famous places

  • Read about sports and hobbies

• Informational texts: level 2

  • Read about famous people

  • Read about business and technology

  • Read about science and nature

  • Read about history

 

• Writing strategies

 

• Organising writing

  • Put the sentences in order

  • Order items from most general to most specific

  • Organise information by main idea

  • Remove the sentence that does not belong

• Introductions and conclusions

  • Choose the best topic sentence

  • Choose the best concluding sentence

• Linking words

  • Identify time-order words

  • Use coordinating conjunctions

  • Use subordinating conjunctions

  • Choose the best transition

• Developing and supporting arguments

  • Distinguish facts from opinions

  • Identify an author's statement of opinion

  • Choose reasons to support an opinion

  • Identify supporting details in literary texts

  • Identify supporting details in informational texts

  • Identify and correct plagiarism

• Descriptive details

  • Show character emotions and traits

  • Revise the sentence using a stronger verb

 

• Vocabulary

 

• Prefixes and suffixes

  • Identify base words, prefixes and suffixes

  • Determine the meaning of a word with pre-, re- or mis-

  • Use the prefixes pre-, re- and mis-

  • Determine the meaning of a word with -ful or -less

  • Determine the meaning of a word with -ly or -ness

  • Determine the meaning of a word with -able or -ment

  • Determine the meaning of a word with a suffix: review

  • Determine the meanings of words with prefixes and suffixes: review

• Greek and Latin roots

  • Sort words by shared Greek or Latin roots

  • Use Greek and Latin roots as clues to the meanings of words

  • Use the meanings of words as clues to the meanings of Greek and Latin roots

  • Determine the meanings of Greek and Latin roots

  • Determine the meanings of words with Greek and Latin roots

  • Match words with Greek and Latin roots to their meanings

• Compound words

  • Form compound words

  • Form and use compound words

• Categories

  • Select the members of a group

  • Select the words that don't belong

• Synonyms and antonyms

  • Choose the synonym

  • Which sentence has the same meaning?

  • Find synonyms in context

  • Choose the antonym

  • Which sentence uses an antonym?

  • Find antonyms in context

• Homophones

  • Homophones with pictures

  • Identify homophones

  • Use the correct homophone

• Multiple-meaning words

  • Which definition matches the sentence?

  • Which sentence matches the definition?

• Shades of meaning

  • Describe the difference between related words

  • Positive and negative connotation

• Context clues

  • Find words using context

  • Determine the meaning of words using synonyms in context

  • Use context to identify the meaning of a word

  • Determine the meaning of domain-specific words with pictures

• Reference skills

  • Order alphabetically based on the first letter

  • Order alphabetically based on the first two letters

  • Order alphabetically based on the first three letters

  • Order alphabetically: challenge

  • Use guide words

  • Use dictionary entries

  • Use dictionary definitions

  • Use thesaurus entries

 

• Grammar and mechanics

 

• Sentences, fragments and run-ons

  • Is the sentence declarative, interrogative, imperative or exclamatory?

  • Identify the complete subject of a sentence

  • Identify the complete predicate of a sentence

  • Identify the simple subject or predicate of a sentence

  • Is it a complete sentence or a fragment?

  • Is it a complete sentence or a run-on?

  • Is it a complete sentence, a fragment or a run-on?

  • Is the sentence simple or compound?

  • Order the words to create a sentence

• Nouns

  • Which word is a noun?

  • Identify nouns

  • Identify nouns – with abstract nouns

  • Identify common and proper nouns

  • Form regular plurals with -s, -es and -ies

  • Use regular plurals with -s, -es and -ies

  • Form regular plurals with -s, -es, -ies and -ves

  • Use regular plurals with -s, -es, -ies and -ves

  • Is the noun singular or plural?

  • Form and use irregular plurals

  • Identify plurals, singular possessives and plural possessives

  • Form the singular or plural possessive

  • Identify and correct errors with plural and possessive nouns

• Pronouns

  • Identify personal pronouns

  • Choose between subject and object personal pronouns

  • Replace the noun with a personal pronoun

  • Compound subjects and objects with 'I' and 'me'

  • Identify possessive pronouns

  • Use possessive pronouns

  • Choose between personal and reflexive pronouns

  • Use reflexive pronouns

  • Identify relative pronouns

  • Use relative pronouns: who and whom

  • Use relative pronouns: who, whom, whose, which and that

• Verb types

  • Use action verbs

  • Identify action verbs

  • Identify main verbs and helping verbs

  • What does the modal verb show?

  • Use the correct modal verb

• Subject-verb agreement

  • Is the subject singular or plural?

  • Use the correct subject or verb

  • Pronoun-verb agreement

  • Use the correct subject or verb – with compound subjects

• Verb tense

  • Which sentence is in the regular past tense?

  • Identify verbs in the regular past tense

  • Form and use the regular past tense

  • Identify the irregular past tense

  • Form and use the irregular past tense: set 1

  • Form and use the irregular past tense: set 2

  • Form and use the irregular past tense: set 3

  • Form and use the irregular past tense: set 4

  • To be: use the correct form

  • To have: use the correct form

  • Is the sentence in the past, present or future tense?

  • Change the sentence to future tense

  • Use the progressive verb tenses

  • Form the progressive verb tenses

  • Choose between the past tense and past participle

  • Use the perfect verb tenses

  • Form the perfect verb tenses

• Articles

  • Use the correct article: a or an

  • Use the correct article: a, an or the

  • Identify articles

• Adjectives and adverbs

  • Does the adjective tell you what kind or how many?

  • Identify the adjective that describes the noun

  • Identify adjectives

  • Order adjectives

  • Does the adverb tell you how, when or where?

  • Identify adverbs

  • Use relative adverbs

  • Choose between adjectives and adverbs

  • Is the word an adjective or adverb?

  • Use adjectives to compare

  • Spell adjectives that compare

  • Use adjectives with more and most

  • Use adverbs to compare

• Prepositions

  • Identify prepositions

  • Identify prepositions and their objects

  • Identify prepositional phrases

  • Prepositions: review

• Conjunctions

  • Identify coordinating conjunctions

  • Identify subordinating conjunctions

• Contractions

  • Pronoun-verb contractions

  • Contractions with 'not'

• Commas

  • Commas with direct addresses and after introductory words

• Capitalisation

  • Capitalising the names of people and pets and titles of respect

  • Capitalising days, months and holidays

  • Capitalising the names of places and geographic features

  • Capitalising proper adjectives, nationalities and languages

• Formatting

  • Greetings and closings of letters

  • Capitalising titles

  • Formatting titles

  • Formatting and capitalising titles