Grade 4 Language Arts Term 2

What Will You Learn?

• At the end of the term, students should be able to:
• Infer word meaning using knowledge of inflectional endings -s, -es, -ed, -ing, -ly.
• Differentiate between explicit and implicit ideas in text.
• Use context clues to clarify understanding during reading.
• Analyse cause and effect relationship in texts.
• Recognise and use collective nouns.
• Identify and use prepositions of time.
• Use object pronouns correctly.
• Learn and use basic sentence types –interrogative imperative and declarative.
• Learn and use linking/transitional words appropriately.
• Practise the use of the present, past and future tenses.
• Use picture prompts to compose simple narratives.
• Write descriptive pieces, using adjectives and adverbs appropriately and with appeal to the senses.