Language Tree SB 5

Scope and Sequence

Unit

Reading and comprehension

Speaking and listening

1 A Lucky Escape

• Audience and purpose • Understand narrative composition

• Listen to student presentation • Discuss reading preferences

2 Dear Aunt Judy

• Skimming • Informal letter format • Identify the main idea

Group discussion with different roles

3 Learn to Share

• Surveying • Cause and effect

Role play / apologising

4 Heart of Gold

• Scanning • Fact and opinion

• Make notes on a presentation • Describe events using a timeline

5 Rain in Summer

• Discuss features of a poem • Identify figures of speech: similes, personification

Compare Creole and Standard English poem

6 The Market

• Recognise descriptive writing • Use context clues

Describe different locations

7 Accident

• Learn to predict a text • Compare accounts

• Presentation from resource person • Note main points

8 The Pot of Wisdom

Make inferences

• Retell a story • Complete a book report • Discuss a topic • Prepare and give a speech

9 Debate

• Identify audience and purpose • Understand persuasive writing • Use a KWL chart • Use a glossary • Use a table of contents, index

10 Discover Volcanoes

• Prepare and deliver a presentation • Peer evaluation

11 The Nature Island

• Features of a website • Persuasive language • Metaphor, hyperbole

Plan a visit

12 The Party

Figures of speech: alliteration, onomatopoeia

• Recite a poem • Discuss features of a poem

13 Fables

• Conflict resolution • Compare and contrast • Interpret diagrams • Sequencing

Retell story from different perspective

14 Growing Tomatoes

Give instructions

15 Readers’ Letters

• Fact and opinion

Giving advice

16 The Campaign

• Identify synonyms • Use a thesaurus

Plan a campaign

17 For Your Information

Interpret graphic information

Radio announcements

18 Reef in Danger

• Audience and purpose • Compare and contrast

• Summarise information • Main idea

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