Grade 6 Language Arts Term 1

What Will You Learn?

• At the end of the term, students should be able to:
• Listen to extract main ideas.
• Listen in order to draw inferences from different forms of oral language: storytelling, speeches, interview.
• Generate and answer questions from implicit and explicit information viewed.
• Use prefixes and suffixes to change word meaning.
• Apply context clues to determine word meaning.
• Identify main idea/important points in text.
• Summarize main findings of text.
• Use text main ideas/ important points to identify theme(s).
• Distinguish between abstract and concrete nouns.
• Use the stages of the writing process to compose narrative and descriptive stories: pre writing, drafting, revising, editing, post writing (sharing and publishing).
• Write paragraphs in which topic sentence, supporting details and concluding sentence are easily identified.
• Use figurative language effectively.
• Use a variety of writing techniques to increase the appeal and impact of their writing.
• Summarise and appropriately arrange their ideas for writing.