Language Tree SB 4

Scope and Sequence

Unit

Reading and comprehension

Speaking and listening

• Act out a scene • Speak with expression

1 Rushing River

• Recognise features of narrative • Make inferences • Understand question–answer relationships

2 An Invitation

• Identify features of a letter • Find the main idea

• Identify audience and purpose of message • Identify different ways of communicating

• Listen to a story and identify details • Retell story with expression, with help of story grammar

3 Anansi and the Tug of War

• Recognise story parts • Use cause and effect • Use onomatopoeia

• Access prior knowledge • Give advice based on reading

4 Danger! Forest Fires

• Use context clues • Fact and fiction • Use a KWL chart • Use contents lists and indexes • Learn the features of a report • Draw conclusions • Use a glossary • Identify features of poetry • Understand similes • Compare two poems • Predict content • Identify story elements • Identify narrative types

• Listen to an oral presentation • Generate questions

5 Seventy Years Ago

• Identify details of a spoken message • Discuss events – cause and effect

6 The Weather

• Listen to a spoken text • Discuss getting ideas for writing

7 Alien TV

Discuss character

8 Gran, Can You Rap?

• Understand metaphors • Identify more features of poetry • Understand stress and beat in poetry (O.E.C.S.)

9 Being a Vet

• Identify features of expository text • Scan for information headings

Role play an interview

10 Getting the Message

• Get information from charts • Link purpose and audience

• Identify details in a spoken announcement • Role play a telephone call • Discuss other stories • Summarise the story using story grammar

11 The Tree of Life

• Link cause and effect • Predict the outcome

• Follow spoken instructions • Give instructions

12 Sweet Potato Pudding

• Scan a text • Sequencing • Identify features of instructions, directions • Purpose and audience • Learn the features of a formal letter • Skim a text • Find information on the internet • Distinguish between fact and opinion • Identify features of a persuasive text

• Summarise information • Discussion and presentation of ideas

13 The New Park

• Discuss tourism • Discuss and make notes on a new hotel

14 Iguana Lodge

• Listen for meaning, cause and effect and main idea • Recite with expression

15 Trouble with Animals

• Identify speech in text • Compare poems • Figurative language

• Discuss and present ideas • Rehearse and perform a play

16 What Friends Are For

• Express opinions • Identify features of a play • Understand and create character description

17 The Fun Run

Getting information from a poster

• Plan an event • Make a short presentation • Listen to an announcement • Describe a place

18 The Sugar Museum

• Identify different text types • Recognise a description of place

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