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 Adventures with books 1 A big box of books 2 2 Exploring books 4 3 What a character 8 4 You can be an editor 14 5 At the library 20 6 Books are precious 24 Term 1 Unit 2 Some Caribbean customs 7 Music and dance 28 8 Religious customs 32 9 National and traditional dress 36 10 Carnival time 40 11 Magical stories 44 12 Sharing our customs 48 Term 2 Unit 1 Weather 13 Weather conditions 52 14 Stormy weather 57 15 Dressing for the weather 60 16 Windy and wet 64 17 Weather and the environment 69 Term 2 Unit 2 The food we eat 18 Different foods 72 19 Jamaican foods 78 20 Special meals 82 21 Preparing and cooking food 86 Term 3 Unit 1 Exploring our country 22 Plants and animals 92 23 Water 98 24 The highlands in Jamaica 103 25 The lowlands in Jamaica 109 Teacher's notes 114