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 Poems
• : 1 Animal poetry 2
• : 2 Figures of speech 8
• : 3 A story poem 13
• : 4 Writing poetry 17
• : Term 1 Unit 2 Sports
• : 5 Playing ball 22
• : 6 Cricket 28
• : 7 Track and field 34
• : 8 Sport at school 40
• : Term 2 Unit 1 Life across climatic zones
• : 9 Climates around the world 44
• : 10 Life in the tropics 48
• : 11 Life in the temperate regions 54
• : 12 Life in the polar regions 60
• : Term 2 Unit 2 Folktales
• : 13 Anansi stories 66
• : 14 Jamaican stories 74
• : 15 Folktales of the world 82
• : 16 A tale from Russia 85
• : Term 3 Unit 1 All about vehicles
• : 17 Cars 90
• : 18 Bicycles and motorcycles 98
• : 19 Other vehicles 106
• : Teacher's notes 114