Language Tree SB 1

Scope and Sequence UNIT

Reading and comprehension

Speaking and listening

1  What Makes You Special? • Draw on personal experience • Recall detail • Identify main idea

• Greetings • Ask a question • Give information

2 My Family

• Listen for detail • Derive clues from illustration • Draw on personal experience

• Listen for detail • Ask and answer questions • Communicate information • Retell story • Predict outcomes • Rules for working together

3 The Big Yam

• Make inferences • Express opinions • Make predictions

4 A Special Dog

• Identify story parts • Identify character and setting • Make predictions

Discuss ideas for a story

5 Important Places

• Relate prior knowledge to reading • Relate reading to personal experience • Recognise headings

Describe familiar places

6 Make it Rhyme

• Recognise different text types • Express opinion • Rhyme

• Listen to a poem • Recite and learn a verse

7  Brother Dog and the Bone • Identify main idea • High frequency words • Respond to story

• Listen for detail and main idea • Role play • Ask questions

8 The Dentist

• Make inferences • Identify main idea • Recognise cause and effect

• Share information • Rules for discussion

9 How to Make a Pancake

• Recognise and compare different text types • Identify features of instructions

• Listen to instructions • Give instructions

10 Sports Day

• Understand pictorial information • Use context clues • Make predictions

• Listen to information • Ask and answer questions

11 Alvin’s Journal

• Make inferences • Cause and effect • Draw conclusions

Discussion: make arguments for and against

12 Lost

• Make predictions • Make inferences • Identify beginning/middle/end • Distinguish between fact/fiction • Recognise different text types • Recall detail • Express personal response • Rhyme • Recognise different text types • Extract information from text • Recognise different text types • Identify main idea • Identify setting and characters • Discuss character traits • Make predictions • Express personal response • Explore new vocabulary

• Recount an experience • Retell the story

13 Agoutis

• Listen to information • Compare fiction and non-fiction

14 People I Like

• Listen to a Creole poem • Recite a poem with expression

15 Plants

• Ask for/give factual information • Listen for entertainment

16 Anansi and the Yams

• Listen to and retell a story • Role play

17 Cats

• Listen to a poem • Recite poem paying attention to pace

18 Making Music

• Make inferences • Identify main idea

• Plan a party • Invite a friend

Every three units are followed by What have I learnt? , a page of formative assessment.

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