This really beautiful book will provide all you need to teach the full range of comprehension skills to your students. Immediately appealing to children, with colourful and attractive illustrations, the book delivers educationally as well as visually, covering all the comprehension subskills for this grade level, and drawing on a wide range of different text types. The link with composition will improve the standard of writing, and help students understand the links between reading and writing. The whole class, teacher and students, will enjoy Language Arts lessons using these books. The choice of texts and the varied activities will engage children's attention and will give comprehension lessons an immediate interest and popularity. At the same time, teachers are aided by the additional teacher notes within the book, and by the fact that the book is carefully planned to mirror the primary curriculum for the grade level.

 

This book is aimed at children in primary school.

There are 128 pages in this book. This book was published 2012 by Hodder Education .

Gladys Morgan, Sharon Hales and Janice Cunningham are respected and experienced teachers at leading primary schools in Jamaica. Karen Morrison and Daphne Paizee are world-renowned authors with many years experience in teaching and writing.

This book has the following chapters: Term 1 Unit 1 Ourselves 1 This is me 2 2 My family tree 6 3 We came from Africa 10 4 People in my community 14 5 When I grow up 17 Term 1 Unit 2 Language through the senses 6 Through my eyes 23 7 What do we really see? 27 8 It sounds like . ? 32 9 It's my turn 37 10 It smells so good. 40 11 Describing people 43 Term 2 Unit 1 Print in the environment 12 Read the label 45 13 Read all about it 49 14 Print in the home 53 15 Clothing 57 16 Community signs 61 17 Signs and things 64 Term 2 Unit 2 Friends 18 Friendship 67 19 Real friends? 72 20 Talking to friends 76 21 New friends 79 22 Animal friends 82 23 Animals that live with us 86 Term 3 Unit 1 Water 24 Describing water 91 25 Water activities 94 26 Find out about water 98 27 Can water go off? 102 28 Pollution 106 29 A project about water 110 Teacher's notes 114