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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

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