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 My body
• : 1 My body 2
• : 2 My skeleton 6
• : 3 My heart 10
• : 4 My brain 12
• : 5 How I feel 14
• : Term 1 Unit 2 Care and safety of self
• : 6 Why do we need to eat? 16
• : 7 Different meals 20
• : 8 Recipes 24
• : 9 Clean, healthy and safe 29
• : 10 Caring for others 34
• : Term 2 Unit 1 Living together as a family
• : 11 Each family is special 38
• : 12 We help each other 42
• : 13 Family celebrations 45
• : 14 Family customs and traditions 48
• : 15 Life in the past 52
• : Term 2 Unit 2 Satisfying our needs
• : 16 What are our needs? 56
• : 17 The perfect teacher 60
• : 18 Time to relax 62
• : 19 What are the rules? 67
• : 20 Moving from place to place 71
• : Term 3 Unit 1 This is my community
• : 21 In my community 75
• : 22 People in the community 79
• : 23 Buildings and places 83
• : Term 3 Unit 2 Places of interest in my community
• : 24 Finding places 87
• : 25 Work on a banana farm 91
• : 26 Important places 96
• : Term 3 Unit 3 Plants and animals in my community
• : 27 Plants and animals 100
• : 28 Uses of plants and animals 103
• : 29 Caring for pets and plants 107
• : 30 Water in our community 111
• : Teacher notes 114