English

Students study reading comprehension, writing and language skills.


Reading Comprehension

Skills include drawing conclusions, distinguishing facts from opinion, inferential reading, contrasting ideas and cause & effect.


Writing

Skills include developing essay structures for opinion and creative writing including responding to various stimuli. Story structures and arguments are developed through discussion and practice.


Language

Skills include vocabulary, sentence structure, mechanics of expression and grammar.

Language skills include the following age appropriate topics across year levels 2 to 8.

Year Levels Topics
2 to 8 Identifying nouns, verbs & adjectives
Singular and plural
Synonyms & antonyms
Sentences
Tense
Similes and metaphors
Homophones
Idioms
Analogies
Figurative language
Conjunctions		 Capitals
Pronouns
Possessive
Prepositions
Contractions
Punctuation
Object and subject
Prefixes & suffixes
Direct & indirect speech
Connotations
Clauses

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