Jamaica Primary Language Arts Book 4 NSC Edition
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Term 1 Unit 1 Cultural traditions which shape our national and regional identity
Project 1: Our music and dance
Speaking and listening: Jamaican Creole and Standard Jamaican English; ask and answer questions
Word builder: Song and dance vocabulary; -tion words
Research and study skills: Skim and scan
Grammar builder: Proper nouns and common nouns
Let’s write: Music and dance; compare and contrast; transitional words and phrases
Project 2: Folktales, news stories and documentary texts
Speaking and listening: Compare versions of folktales; respond to documentary texts; verb and subject agreement
Word builder: Folktales and stories vocabulary; match syllables
Let’s read: Anansi and Goat; characterisation and inference; story outcomes
Grammar builder: Positive, comparative and superlative adjectives
Let’s write: Characterisation, setting, message; comparative adjectives; plan, write and revise
Project 3: Food and cooking
Speaking and listening: Answer true or false; read bar graphs, present findings
Word builder: Vocabulary about food; spell, sort and segment words
Let’s read: Fiction and non-fiction; read a recipe; make lists
Grammar builder: Fiction, non-fiction and tenses (present and past)
Research and study skills: Compare and contrast fiction and non-fiction
Let’s write: Write a recipe; proofread and check
Project 4: Jamaican heroes
Speaking and listening: Identify key information; in groups, plan and prepare a presentation to the class
Word builder: Vocabulary about history and heroes; pronunciation, meaning, spelling; prefix, root, suffix
Research and study skills: Understand text features and how information is organised; research the life of Samuel Sharpe
Grammar builder: Conjunctions and compound sentences
Let’s write: Write a speech in the voice of a Jamaican national hero
Project 5: Jamaican sports and sporting achievements
Speaking and listening: Answer true or false; read, discuss and report back
Word builder: Sports vocabulary; segment, blend, spell; crossword
Let’s read: Biography; skim and scan; answer questions
Grammar builder: Punctuate sentences
Let’s write: Plan and write an email using sports vocabulary, adjectives, conjunctions, transitional phrases and correct punctuation
Project 6: Tourism in Jamaica
Speaking and listening: Listen and respond to a poem; make a class performance
Word builder: Tourism vocabulary; pronunciation; compound words
Let’s read: Comprehension, answer questions; identify and list positives and negatives
Research and study skills: Read informational texts and understand text features; use a graphic organiser
Grammar builder: End-of-unit check: adjectives, transitional words, conjunctions, nouns
Let’s write: Plan and write a factual report
Term 1 Unit 1 Review and assessment
Term 1 Unit 2 Our five senses
Project 7: Introduction to the five senses
Speaking and listening: Question and answer; conduct a conversation
Word builder: Use sense words; conduct a conversation; alphabetical orders
Let’s read / Research and study skills: Skim and scan; headings and sub-headings; read and discuss an information text
Grammar builder: Apostrophes
Let’s write: Use the RAFT strategy (role, audience, format, topic); plan, write, reflect, review
Project 8: About the nose and sense of smell
Speaking and listening: Read aloud; role playing; use Jamaican Creole
Word builder: Nose and sense of smell; spelling; double letters; code-breaking
Let’s read: Skim and scan a story about the sense of smell; apostrophes of possession; reflect on own experience
Grammar builder: More on apostrophes; pronoun contractions
Let’s write: Plan, write and review a story about the senses
Project 9: About the tongue and sense of taste
Speaking and listening: Form words; different languages spoken in the Caribbean; how we communicate
Word builder: Tongue and sense of taste; compound words, antonyms and synonyms; label a diagram
Let’s read: Information texts; diagrams; tongue-twisters
Grammar builder: Adverbs of manner
Let’s write: Use adverbs of manner; write and compare paragraphs
Project 10: About the skin and the sense of touch
Speaking and listening: Write and perform a role play set in a doctor’s office
Word builder: Vocabulary about the skin; segmenting; consonant blends and clusters
Let’s read: Read and evaluate an advertisement
Grammar builder: Noun substitutes – pronouns
Let’s write: Plan, write and evaluate an advertisement, using the RAFT strategy
Project 11: Symptoms and treatments
Speaking and listening: Homophones; play language games
Word builder: Vocabulary about symptoms and treatments; syllables; sequence; prefixes and suffixes
Let’s read: Use dictionaries; definitions; comprehension; diaries and journals
Grammar builder: More about pronouns
Let’s write: Plan, write and evaluate a letter of complaint
Project 12: Poetry to stimulate the senses
Speaking and listening: Read poetry aloud, varying tone of voice
Word builder: Poetic vocabulary; consonant clusters; spelling challenge
Let’s read: Read poetry aloud with actions; common nouns, proper nouns; rhyming words
Grammar builder: Apostrophes for possession and contraction; noun substitutes; adverbs of manner; self-check
Let’s write: Plan, write and read aloud a poem; acrostic poems
Term 1 Unit 2 Review and assessment
Term 2 Unit 1 The Jamaican landscape and natural environment
Project 13: Natural places of Jamaica
Speaking and listening: Interpret a comic strip; plan and perform a role play of the story; evaluate performances
Word builder: Vocabulary about the natural landscape; segmenting; syllables; plurals; spelling; categories
Let’s read / Research and study skills: Read graphs and charts; use data; mind map; using RAFT to assess text; summarise
Grammar builder: Collective nouns; use a dictionary
Let’s write: Plan, write and review a journal entry
Project 14: Our mountains
Speaking and listening: Listen attentively; listen for information; share and discuss ideas
Word builder: Vocabulary about mountains; spelling challenge; sort words; synonyms, antonyms, homophones
Let’s read: Read an information text; assess/ categorise text types; comprehension skills
Research and study skills: Use charts and graphs for information; write information texts
Grammar builder: Commas
Let’s write: Plan and write a non-fiction text; write a leaflet about mountains in Jamaica
Project 15: Famous rivers
Speaking and listening: Plan and hold a debate
Word builder: Vocabulary about rivers; spelling; proper nouns; homographs
Let’s read: Read a story; predict what will happen; alliteration; personification; comprehension; sequencings
Grammar builder: Adverbs of time
Let’s write: Write fiction; plan and write a story including alliteration and personification
Project 16: The natural world in stories and poems
Speaking and listening: Read aloud and compare two poems
Word builder: Vocabulary about landscape and weather; consonant clusters; alphabetical order; common noun; verb; adjective; synonym
Let’s read: Read poetry; personification; comprehension
Grammar builder: Prepositions of time
Let’s write: Plan and write a poem about the Jamaican landscape; write a journal entry to reflect on the process of writing the poem
Project 17: The environment and pollution
Speaking and listening: Work in groups, using an online search engine to research, plan and write a presentation to be given to the rest of the class
Word builder: Vocabulary about our environment; segmenting/blending; suffixes; definitions
Let’s read: Read a non-fiction text; comprehension; true or false
Grammar builder: Collective nouns
Let’s write: Plan, draft and write a formal letter, respond to feedback from a partner
Project 18: Other Caribbean countries
Speaking and listening: Research and discuss Caribbean countries; play a quick-fire game naming countries
Word builder: Vocabulary about Caribbean places; proper nouns; suffixes; homographs
Let’s read: Read a non-fiction text about Cuba; comprehension
Grammar builder: Commas; collective nouns; prepositions of time; adverbs of time
Let’s write: Design a poster featuring a fact file about one Caribbean country; write a richly descriptive, information text describing a Caribbean country; facts, figures and dates; headings and subheadings, conjunctions, vivid, descriptive language; reflect and review
Term 2 Unit 1 Review and assessment
Term 2 Unit 2 Water and the Jamaican environment
Project 19: We all need water
Speaking and listening: Discussion and role play about water and how we use it
Word builder: Vocabulary about water; word definitions; prefix, suffix, root; synonyms; homographs
Let’s read: Match titles to plays; summarise; characterisation in plays
Grammar builder: Object pronouns; subject, object, verb agreement
Let’s write: Plan and write interview questions; conduct an interview and writing notes; write a report after the interview
Project 20: Clean water is safe water
Speaking and listening: Read a report aloud; ask and answer questions; summarise; plan and role play a meeting about water quality
Word builder: Vocabulary about making water clean and safe; syllables; spelling; prefix, suffix, root; sentence construction
Let’s read: Read extracts; comprehension; identify words or phrases with similar meanings
Research and study skills: Complete a summary table; understand cause and effect; summarise and create a table of information to be presented to the class
Grammar builder: Signal words; sentence construction; compare using signal words and phrases; link using signal words and phrases; sequence using signal words and phrases
Let’s write: Sequence an information text; relay the key pieces of information in comic strip form
Project 21: Water in our community
Speaking and listening: Work in teams to plan, construct and conduct a debate
Word builder: Vocabulary about water in the community; homophones; suffix; synonyms
Let’s read / Research and study skills: Read maps and tables; comprehension; questions and answers
Grammar builder: Present simple and present continuous tenses; past tense
Let’s write: Plan, make notes, describe events; write a paragraph; summarise a text message
Project 22: A school water project
Speaking and listening: Read aloud; discuss; plan, practise and perform a role play; use Standard Jamaican English and Jamaican Creole
Word builder: Vocabulary about water; suffix; spelling; alphabetical order
Let’s read: Read a newspaper article; comprehension; respond to text; expressing a view
Grammar builder: Sentence signposts; statements, interrogatives, exclamations
Let’s write: Plan a whole-school project and write a draft of your plan
Project 23: Time of drought
Speaking and listening: Class discussion: discuss and practise reading a script of a television news broadcast
Word builder: Vocabulary about drought; definitions; pronunciation; select the right word to complete a sentence
Let’s read: Introduce the QAR strategy; different levels of comprehension skills
Grammar builder: Parts of speech: nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, pronouns, conjunctions, prepositions
Let’s write: Describe a landscape from photographs; plan and write a news report using writing strategies
Project 24: The properties of water
Speaking and listening: Discuss and share ideas; research, plan and present your research to the class
Word builder: Vocabulary about the properties of water; suffix; synonyms
Let’s read: Read about the scientific properties of water; identify facts; summarise information; fill in the gap
Grammar builder: Object pronouns; parts of speech; tenses; sentence types
Let’s write: Make a science poster showing how to carry out an experiment; step-by-step instructions; add research
Term 2 Unit 2 Review and assessment
Term 3 Unit 1 Talking and writing about the weather
Project 25: Weather
Speaking and listening: Share weather lore through rhymes and discussion
Word builder: Vocabulary about the weather; stressed syllables in nouns and verbs; pronunciation; mnemonics
Let’s read: Ancient myths and legends about the weather
Grammar builder: Contractions with “will” and “shall”; modal verbs
Let’s write / Research and study skills: Record weather conditions; complete a weather chart; draw a graph recording findings; make a poster; write a review of your findings
Project 26: Weather reports and forecasts
Speaking and listening: Read weather forecasts; vary speed and pitch of voice; give feedback
Word builder: Vocabulary about weather report; use a dictionary; proper nouns; suffixes; compound words
Let’s read: Weather forecasts; read text and weather maps (synoptic charts); design weather symbols; summarise; read a chart
Grammar builder: Reflexive pronouns
Let’s write: Write synoptic and prognostic weather forecasts using present and future tenses; draw a map with symbols; plan, write and review a script
Project 27: Our Caribbean weather
Speaking and listening: Read a short text aloud, discuss ask and answer questions; discuss thoughts and feelings
Word builder: Vocabulary about describing the weather; definitions; pronunciation; consonant clusters; infinitive verb form; play charades; alphabetical order
Let’s read: Read an informal letter; use similes
Grammar builder: Present simple, present continuous, past simple, future simple tenses; perfect tenses, past, present and future
Let’s write: Write personal account including likes and dislikes; write with humour; write to present to class; use planning lists; draft, write, proofread, review
Project 28: Artists inspired by weather
Speaking and listening: Discuss thoughts and feelings; song lyrics and singing songs
Word builder: Descriptive vocabulary; use dictionaries; spelling; words ending -le; consonant blends; rhyming words
Let’s read: Read poems about the weather; reading aloud for different effects (stress, volume, intonation, rhythm); identify verbs, adverbs, adjectives; spell rhyming words; express and explain preferences
Grammar builder: Modal auxiliary verbs
Let’s write: Rhyming poems; poems in stanzas; use adjectives and similes; use direct and indirect questions; use mind map/thought bubble/lists to plan writing; draft and review, respond to feedback
Project 29: Hurricanes
Speaking and listening: Discuss your own and others’ experiences sensitively; listen to song lyrics and discuss; ask questions and share stories
Word builder: Vocabulary about wild weather; use a dictionary; words ending in -tion; use a thesaurus; unscramble words
Let’s read: Read a story extract; answer questions; exclamations; predict
Grammar builder: More about modal auxiliaries; write sentences giving advice; design a poster listing tips and advice, make a class display
Let’s write: Draw on own experience to write a story; use a planning chart with three sections (background/details of problem or events/ outcome); use adjectives, adverbs, similes; redraft and correct; choose a title
Project 30: Flooding in the news
Speaking and listening: Read a newspaper article aloud; be sensitive to others’ experiences; answer questions based on the article
Word builder: Vocabulary about flooding; hyphenated words; homographs; play word games
Let’s read: Read and answer questions on a news report; understand use of double letters; summarise in note form
Grammar builder: Reflexive pronouns; modal auxiliary verbs; contractions; perfect tenses
Let’s write: Research and write a news report; use writing strategies like RAFT to help plan; write factual information; write in paragraphs
Term 3 Unit 1 Review and assessment
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