Prereading and prediction. Reads a story. Completes a comprehension based on the story. Vocabulary exercise based on the story.

Discusses Mandu's Story. Identifies conventions on a book cover. Identifies the main character. Summarises the story. Writes words in personal dictionary. Writes a diary entry that retells the story.

Brainstorms for ideas to write a story. Writes ideas in a story planner. Writes then edits a first draft of a story. Writes final draft of the story.

Introduction to countable and uncountable nouns. Sorts nouns into countable and uncountable categories. Asks questions starting with "how many" and "how much". Rewrites sentences in the past tense starting with "yesterday". Punctuation: full stop and capital letters.

Prereads and predicts a story based on title and illustrations. Reads a short story and completes a comprehension. Sequences the events in the story. Writes the sequence using determiners (first, second, lastly).

Writes a role play based on the story. Plans to write the story using a mind map. Uses the mind map to guide an oral retelling of the story. Follows the writing process and retells the story in the past tense. Punctuation: sentence endings. Vocabulary: sound families (lt, ight, th, wh). Writes a congratulatory card for the main character in the story.

Past tense irregular verb race. Writes a paragraph in the past tense. Completes sentences using the past tense of the verb. Introduction to synonyms.

Revises countable and uncountable nouns. Completes a cloze exercise to revise the past tense. Matches synonyms.

Reads a newspaper article focusing on headline, by-line, introductory paragraph. Answers comprehension questions based on the article. Reviews the article to identify adjectives and the nouns they describe. Writes appropriate adjectives for pictures. Uses adjectives to form sentences.

Reads a newspaper article focusing on headline, by-line, introductory paragraph, title of the newspaper, captions for illustrations.

Answers comprehension questions based on the article. Focuses on the heroine in the article. Vocabulary: word families. Speaking: interviews friends to find out who their heroes or heroines are. Completes a table based on their answers. Writes a paragraph describing a hero or heroine.

Uses a mind map to plan a newspaper article. Follows the writing process. Writes the article in the template provided.

Introduction to the soft- and hard-C. Classifies C-words into hard and soft sounds. Uses C-words to form sentences. Abbreviations and acronyms. Identifies and uses verbs.

Uses a simple map to give directions. Uses determiners such as first, second, third, lastly. Gives directions and identifies places on a simple map.

Introduction to the present progressive tense. Selects verbs to complete sentences in the present progressive tense. Matches antonyms. Joins sentences using the conjunctions � because, so that and but.

Plays a tense board game to practise the present progressive tense.

Uses a mind map to plan a story. Writes the story in a tear-out story template.