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 teeth 2 2 Caring for my teeth 6 3 Inside my body 7 4 Help! I am sick 11 5 Healthy and unhealthy foods 14 6 Lovely Jamaican food 17 Term 1 Unit 2 Satisfying other needs 7 Things I need 20 8 Being kind to others 22 9 Danger! 26 10 Saying sorry 30 Term 2 Unit 1 My community - providers of goods and services 11 Jobs people do 34 12 Going on a field trip 38 13 Travelling to work 42 14 Working long ago 46 15 Keeping safe at work 50 Term 2 Unit 2 Relating to others outside of Jamaica 16 Getting along with others 54 17 Trading goods 58 18 Visitors to Jamaica 62 19 Other people and places 66 20 News from other countries 70 Term 2 Unit 3 Aspects of Jamaican culture 21 Folk tales 74 22 Music and dance 77 23 Celebrating our culture 80 24 Our history and heritage 83 Term 3 Unit 1 Living and non-living things in my environment 25 Is it alive? 86 26 Plant and animal homes 90 27 Things change around us 94 28 We are all connected 97 Term 3 Unit 2 Caring for my environment 29 Our environment 100 30 Caring for our environment 103 31 Problems in the environment 105 32 What can we do? 108 Teacher's notes 114