Jamaica Primary Language Arts Book 5 NSC Edition
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Term 1 Unit 1 Energy and matter
Project 1: Machines around us
Speaking and listening: Jamaican Creole and Standard Jamaican English; give verbal descriptions; listen to recount information; plan and give a verbal presentation
Word builder: Vocabulary about machines; compound words; sight vocabulary
Let’s read: Read a non-fiction information text; understand text structure and organisation; understand the author’s purpose; build strengths in reading
Grammar builder: Transition words; complete sentences
Let’s write: Plan and write in paragraphs using subheadings and topic sentences
Project 2: What a noise!
Speaking and listening: Discuss and recite a poem using rhythm and actions; Jamaican Creole and Standard Jamaican English
Word builder: Vocabulary about machinery and sounds; onomatopoeic words; design and play word games
Let’s read: Read a story; summarise and sequence; comprehension skills; build strengths in reading
Grammar builder: Subject and predicate
Let’s write: Plan and write a story using a visual stimulus
Project 3: How it works
Speaking and listening: Discuss and share information; describe a bicycle from a picture and explain how it works
Word builder: Play a word game with different vocabulary; list words by meaning; prefixes
Let’s read: Read and rewrite an advertisement; sequence text
Grammar builder: Subjects, predicates and verbs; sentence construction
Let’s write: Plan and write a set of instructions using a flow chart
Project 4: Machines rule!
Speaking and listening: Give verbal instructions; demonstrate how to use a simple machine
Word builder: Vocabulary about machines; definitions; suffixes
Let’s read: Use pictures to predict; read a comic strip story; comprehension; express and justify a view
Grammar builder: Interjections
Let’s write: Onomatopoeia; plan and write a story about a machine
Project 5: The first computers
Speaking and listening: Describe a picture; discuss ideas; present to class
Word builder: Vocabulary about computers; use word structures in understanding and spelling
Let’s read: Read an information text; identify main ideas; identify purpose and features of text types
Grammar builder: Subject; adjectives; nouns; sentence construction
Let’s write: Plan and write an information text
Project 6: Imaginary machines!
Speaking and listening: Describe a real and an imaginary machine
Word builder: Compound words; word families; strategies for identifying unknown words
Let’s read: Read a poem; discuss and answer questions; spelling patterns and rhymes; draw a comic strip of the poem
Grammar builder: Subjects; predicates; interjections
Let’s write: Draw and label an imaginary machine; onomatopoeia; plan and write a poem
Term 1 Unit 1 Review and assessment
Term 1 Unit 2 Diversity, sustainability and interdependence
Project 7: My world
Speaking and listening: Class discussion; look and listen outdoors; make a presentation
Word builder: Vocabulary about sights and sounds around us; alphabetical order; use a dictionary
Let’s read: Read a poem and act it out; similes and metaphors; compare poetry with other forms of text
Grammar builder: Punctuation
Let’s write: Read and write an acrostic poem about the environment
Project 8: Different places, different experiences
Speaking and listening: Use Jamaican Creole and Standard Jamaican English
Word builder: Vocabulary about animals from different habitats; letter clusters; use a dictionary
Let’s read: Read a diary; compare information in two texts
Grammar builder: Connecting words; conjunctions
Let’s write: Plan and write paragraphs about an imaginary trip
Project 9: What is the impact on the environment?
Speaking and listening: Discuss and answer questions on a set of pictures; prepare and give a presentation
Word builder: Vocabulary about the environment; syllables; use context clues; root words, prefixes and suffixes
Let’s read: Read an information text; locate main ideas; identify positive and negative statements
Grammar builder: Verbs in past, present and future tense
Let’s write: Plan and write an essay on a given topic
Project 10: Our natural resources
Speaking and listening: Discuss and read a poem aloud; listen to recall information; prepare and deliver a presentation
Word builder: Vocabulary about the environment; strategies for understanding new words; understand and use words in context
Let’s read: Read non-fiction books; use contents pages; locate information in a book; use a glossary and an index
Grammar builder: Use adverbs in your writing
Let’s write: Plan and write a contents list for a book
Project 11: Where are the wetlands?
Speaking and listening: Discuss a map; listen to recall information; prepare and deliver a presentation; express and justify a point of view
Word builder: Vocabulary about wetlands; using a dictionary; create a word puzzle; write a definition
Let’s read: Read a map; read a report; understand different features in text
Grammar builder: Direct speech; reported speech
Let’s write: Plan and write an information text in paragraphs, use subheadings; draft and use a checklist for editing and improving writing
Project 12: Which animals live in the grasslands?
Speaking and listening: Class discussion; listen to and read aloud a poem; prepare and deliver a presentation
Word builder: Vocabulary about animals and grassland; strategies for reading and understanding an unknown word; make a glossary
Let’s read: Read a magazine article including headings and subheadings; use information from the article; understand the purpose of the article
Grammar builder: Noun phrases
Let’s write: Plan and write a story, including characters, setting, problem, resolution, ending
Term 1 Unit 2 Review and assessment
Term 2 Unit 1 Health and well-being; nutrition
Project 13: Special food
Speaking and listening: Listen to and read a poem aloud; compare Jamaican Creole with Standard Jamaican English
Word builder: Vocabulary about baking; syllables; spelling; silent letters
Let’s read: Read about favourite foods; comprehension questions
Grammar builder: Use adverbs
Let’s write: Use similes and metaphors in writing poems about food; use a writing frame
Project 14: At the market
Speaking and listening: Listen to and read a poem aloud; discuss with a partner; make a word puzzle using adjectives
Word builder: Vocabulary about fruits; alphabetical order; strategies for reading unfamiliar words
Let’s read: Locate information in a text; read a playscript; compare a playscript with prose fiction; summarise; read with expression
Grammar builder: Direct speech; reported speech
Let’s write: Plan and write a playscript
Project 15: Healthy choices
Speaking and listening: Listen respectfully; hold a class debate
Word builder: Vocabulary about food and health; strategies for reading unfamiliar words; mnemonics
Let’s read: Read a report; comprehension questions
Grammar builder: Change the meaning of sentences; change positive and negative sentences
Let’s write: Plan and write a story; use a story map; identify the title, characters, setting, problem, resolution and ending; use adjectives, adverbs, similes and metaphors
Project 16: Do advertisements persuade us?
Speaking and listening: Listen and respond to an advertisement; prepare and give a presentation evaluating an advertisement
Word builder: Vocabulary of food adjectives; word endings; superlatives; persuasive words
Let’s read: Read, compare and evaluate different advertisements
Grammar builder: Prepositions of time
Let’s write: Plan and write a persuasive advertisement
Project 17: Food labels
Speaking and listening: Phrases used in canteens and restaurants; use Jamaican Creole and Standard Jamaican English; role play visiting a canteen or restaurant
Word builder: Vocabulary related to food packaging; use a dictionary; prefixes
Let’s read: Read food packaging; identify and locate specific information; persuasive writing
Grammar builder: Subject-verb agreement
Let’s write: Write a formal letter; plan an event; write an invitation
Project 18: Careers around food
Speaking and listening: Read an interview aloud; perform a role play following the interview script; plan questions for an interview and role play it
Word builder: Vocabulary related to careers around food; suffixes; definitions
Let’s read: Skim and scan; locate specific information; predict; summarise
Grammar builder: Intervening phrases
Let’s write: Research a job connected with food; write a structured report in paragraphs; mind map; subheadings; topic sentences; adjectives and adverbs; intervening sentences; self-review and evaluation
Term 2 Unit 1 Review and assessment
Term 2 Unit 2 Institutions and parish decisions
Project 19: Parishes in Jamaica
Speaking and listening: Class/group discussion; look at and compare maps, talk about locality
Word builder: Vocabulary about Jamaican history and geography; use dictionaries; write own definitions; synonyms; antonyms
Let’s read: Skim and scan for general comprehension and to locate specific information
Grammar builder: Transitional words
Let’s write: Research, plan and write an information text; identify key facts
Project 20: The roles and functions of the parish council
Speaking and listening: Describe pictures; discussion; ask questions; conduct interviews
Word builder: Vocabulary relating to parish services; digraphs, trigraphs, blends and clusters
Let’s read: Read non-fiction texts; headings, subheadings, signal words and phrases, diagrams, photographs and captions
Grammar builder: Pronouns
Let’s write: Research, plan and write a text introducing the local Mayor to your school
Project 21: Making changes
Speaking and listening: Read a playscript aloud; prepare and act out a role play
Word builder: Vocabulary about local services; compound words
Let’s read: Read a letter; skim and scan for general comprehension and to locate specific information; express and justify your response to a piece of writing
Grammar builder: Subject-verb agreement; past and present tense
Let’s write: Write a formal letter; persuasive writing; give feedback
Project 22: Parish councils in the news
Speaking and listening: Prepare and conduct a class debate
Word builder: Morphemes
Let’s read: Read newspaper articles; read headlines; comprehension questions
Grammar builder: Linking ideas and sentences; sequencing words
Let’s write: Research, plan and write a news report; write a headline
Project 23: Rules and regulations
Speaking and listening: Read and discuss old by-laws; debate opinions; identify pros and cons; make a class presentation
Word builder: Vocabulary around rules and regulations; word games; words with multiple meanings
Let’s read: Read newspaper reports; summarise text; infer information from text
Grammar builder: Apostrophes of possession and contraction
Let’s write: Write a formal letter; write a letter of complaint
Project 24: Local governments in other Caribbean countries
Speaking and listening: Identify and discuss speaking and listening skills; work in groups to create a poster or presentation
Word builder: Vocabulary around administration and government; nouns; segmenting words into individual sounds
Let’s read: Prior knowledge; read a table; use information to make comparisons; research local government in another country
Grammar builder: Punctuate paragraphs
Let’s write: Research, plan and write information text in paragraphs
Term 2 Unit 2 Review and assessment
Term 3 Unit 1 Living things and life processes
Project 25: Pollution
Speaking and listening: Discuss information in photographs; use question words to devise questions about pictures
Word builder: Vocabulary about pollution; synonyms; use a thesaurus
Let’s read: Listen to and read a poem; discuss and answer questions; translate text into Jamaican Creole; identify personification; express and justify response to text
Grammar builder: Revise regular and irregular verb tenses; convert between verb tenses
Let’s write: Similes; metaphors; onomatopoeia; personification; write a poem or song on a given theme
Project 26: Collecting information
Speaking and listening: Read and discuss information texts; devise a survey; ask and answer questions
Word builder: Vocabulary around air pollution; identify word families and parts of speech; use words in context; use a dictionary
Let’s read: Skim text for general comprehension; read to locate specific information; make notes of the main ideas
Grammar builder: Collective nouns
Let’s write: Plan and write a factual report; use own research; write a bibliography
Project 27: Protest against pollution
Speaking and listening: Read and discuss slogans; express and justify an opinion; discuss and role play
Word builder: Vocabulary about pollution; solve anagrams; complete sentences
Let’s read: Skim and read a newspaper article; summarise main ideas; role play an article
Grammar builder: Use quotation marks
Let’s write: Design and make a poster warning about air pollution
Project 28: Pollution and progress
Speaking and listening: Hold a debate for and against a motion
Word builder: Vocabulary around pollution and progress; use a dictionary; make sentences; homophones; homonyms
Let’s read: Read captions; read title; read text; share ideas; summarise
Grammar builder: Present and past tense; use correct tense in writing
Let’s write: Draft and write an informal letter or email expressing a point of view
Project 29: Burning fossil fuels
Speaking and listening: Make notes while listening to a non-fiction text and a poem; locate the main facts; identify how the text made you feel; summarise
Word builder: Vocabulary around fossil fuels; match words with definitions; syllabification; mnemonics/spelling strategies
Let’s read: Skim text for general comprehension, scan to locate specific information; read a pie chart
Grammar builder: Pronouns
Let’s write: Discuss similarities and differences between different text types; identify style, features and layouts; compare two pieces of writing on the same subject
Project 30: Clean air
Speaking and listening: Ask and answer questions; research and discuss facts, data, charts and photographs; prepare a presentation
Word builder: Vocabulary around air and pollution; antonyms; synonyms; play a word game
Let’s read: Skim a graphic story; discuss the story; ask and answer questions; devise a title for the story; plot the story on a diagram or chart
Grammar builder: Present continuous tense; present simple tense; past tense
Let’s write: Plan and write a story; characters, setting, plot structure, title, direct speech; edit and review
Term 3 Unit 1 Review and assessment
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