English
Reading I Writing I Speaking & Listening
In English, as always, students will extend their love of reading and writing through supported:
- Exposure to gradually more sophisticated and challenging texts
- Development of greater fluency and expression when reading and speaking
- Consolidation of decoding skills in reading and writing
- Extension of comprehension skills e.g. literal, inferential and applied knowledge
- Development of writing skills which will include letter formation, finger spacing and punctuation
- Continuation of investigating the structure and writing of recounts, including incorporating interesting language features such as adjectives, adverbs and time connectives
- Learning about the features and structure of procedural texts and scientific report writing, for our Inquiry experiments
- Continued exposure to non-fiction texts
- Introduction of informative texts and information report writing. Students will be researching and creating an information report on an animal of their choice.
- Extension of vocabulary when writing and speaking