The document outlines the English language curriculum coverage for Grade 4, detailing activities, assessments, and learning objectives for each term over the school year 2023-2024. Each week includes specific text types such as information texts, narratives, poetry, and instructional texts, along with associated skills like reading comprehension, writing processes, and vocabulary development. It provides a comprehensive framework for assessing students' oral and written proficiency, ensuring a structured approach to teaching English language skills.

1. ENGLISH LANGUAGE
CURRICULUM COVERAGE
GRADE 4
TERM 1
Teacher Name and Surname:
Week English Home Language Recovery ATP 2023 - 2024
Each class in the Grade
(Fill in date indicating when it was
completed)
COMMENTS/REFLECTION
A B C D
1 Baseline Assessment
2
Text type: Information Text with visuals
 Listens to an information text of a poster advertising an
event
 Reads information text with visuals
 Reads for meaning
 Assessment for Learning: Reads aloud.
 Reads for enjoyment
 Writes an advertisement
 Uses the writing process
 Records words and meanings in a personal dictionary.
 Uses a reading log.
 Word level work:
Articles, plurals (noun prefixes), common nouns,
abstract nouns, adjectives, verbs
 Sentence level work:
Simple sentences, statements, questions
 Word Meaning:
Similes, metaphors, idioms
 Spelling and punctuation:
Question mark, exclamation mark, dictionary use
3-4 Text type: Extract from a Novelette
 Listens to and responds to an extract from a novelette
 Introductory activities
 Reads an extract from a novelette
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2.  Uses a summary writing frame
 Uses reading methodologies
 Literature study
 Assessment for Learning: Reads aloud
 Reads for enjoyment
 Writes a character sketch
 Uses the writing process
 Records words and meanings in a personal dictionary
and word wall
 Uses a dictionary
 Uses a reading log/card
 Word level work:
Relative pronouns, reflexive pronouns, adverbs,
connections, interjections
 Sentence level work:
Simple present tense, simple past tense, concord
 Word meaning:
Antonyms, synonyms
 Spelling and punctuation:
full stop, comma, dictionary use, word division
5-6
Text type: Short Story
 Listens to a short story
 Introductory activities
 Retells a story
 Reads a short story
 Reading for meaning
 Literature study
 Uses reading methodologies
 Assessment for Learning: Reads aloud.
 Reads for enjoyment
 Writes a story based on a personal experience/event
 Uses the writing process
 Records words and meanings in a personal dictionary
 Uses a dictionary
 Uses a reading log/card
 Word level work
 Countable and uncountable nouns
 Sentence level work
 Simple sentences
 Spelling and Punctuation
 Full stop, capital and lower case (small letters)
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3. 7-8
Text type: Instructional Text: Recipe
 Listens to and discusses a recipe
 Introductory activities
 Reads a recipe
 Reads for meaning
 Uses reading strategies
 Uses reading comprehension strategies
 Reading methodologies
 Assessment for Learning: Reads aloud
 Reads for enjoyment
 Writes instructions: How to make a cup of tea
 Uses the writing process
 Records words and meanings in a personal dictionary
 Uses a dictionary
 Uses a reading log/card
 Word level work:
 Personal Pronouns, possessive pronouns,
demonstrative pronouns, conjunctions
 Sentence level work:
 Subject, object, simple sentences
 Word meaning: Borrowed words
9-10
Text type: Posters/Notices
 Participates in a short conversation
 Practises listening and speaking
 Retells a story heard/read.
 Reads posters/notices
 Practises reading
 Reading methodologies
 Assessment for Learning: Reads aloud
 Reads for enjoyment
 Designs a poster advertising an event
 Uses the writing process
 Records words and meanings in a personal dictionary
and word wall
 Uses a dictionary
 Uses a reading log/card
 Word level work:
 Adverbs
 Sentence level work:
 Complex sentences, metaphors, similes
 Word meaning:
 One word for a phrase
TERM 1 SUMMARY OF ASSESSMENTS
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4. Task Number Nature of the Task Task Details
1 ORAL (20 marks)
Read aloud (20 marks)
Commence with this task in Term 1 and conclude in Term 2 when the mark will be recorded.
2 ESSAY WRITING (20 marks)
Descriptive / Narrative Essay (3 paragraphs, 20 marks)
Complete during the term
3 RESPONSE TO TEXTS (40 MARKS)
Question 1: Literary/Non- literary text (15 marks)
Barrett’s Taxonomy - Cognitive Levels:
Level 1 and 2 questions – 6 marks
Level 3 questions – 6 marks
Level 4 and 5 questions – 3 marks
Question 2: Visual text (10 marks)
Barrett’s Taxonomy - Cognitive Levels:
Level 1 and 2 questions – 4 marks
Level 3 questions – 4 marks
Level 4 and 5 questions – 2 marks
Question 3: Language Structures and Conventions in Context (15 marks)
SIGNATURES:
Teacher: __________________________________________
Date: _____________________________________________
Departmental Head / Grade Head / Subject Head: __________________________________
Date: ________________________________________
ENGLISH LANGUAGE
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5. CURRICULUM COVERAGE
GRADE 4
TERM 2
Teacher Name and Surname:
Week English Home Language Recovery ATP 2023 - 2024
Each class in the Grade
(Fill in date indicating when it was
completed)
COMMENTS/REFLECTION
A B C D
1-2
Text type: Poem/Song
 Listens to a poem/song
 Introductory activities
 Reads a poem/song/limerick
 Literature study
 Reading for meaning
 Uses reading strategies
 Uses reading comprehension strategies
 Reading methodologies
 Assessment for Learning: Reads aloud
 Reading for enjoyment
 Writes a poem/song/limerick
 Uses the writing process
 Records words and their meanings in a personal
dictionary and word wall
 Uses a dictionary
 Uses drawings or sentence to show meaning
 Uses a reading log/card
 Word level work:
 Abstract and concrete nouns
 Compound nouns
 Sentence level work:
 Simple sentences
 Word Meaning
 Rhymes
 Borrowed words
 Personification
 Alliteration
 Spelling and punctuation:
full stop, comma
3-4 Text type: Information Text – Weather report/chart/table/map
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6.  Listens to weather reports
 Introductory activities
 Listens to a description and describes an object
 Reads a weather report/chart/table/map
 Reading methodologies
 Assessment for Learning: read aloud
 Reading for enjoyment
 Writes an information text, e.g. a weather chart
 Uses the writing process
 Records words and their meanings in a personal
dictionary and word wall
 Uses dictionary
 Uses drawings or sentence to show meaning
 Uses reading log/card
 Word level work:
 Regular and irregular verbs
 Finite and infinite verbs
 Stative verbs
 Adjectives
 Sentence level work:
 Subject-verb agreement
 Past tense
 Future tense
 Word Meaning:
 Idioms and proverbs
5-6
Text type: Dialogue
 Listens to a dialogue
 Introductory activities
 Role-play a scenario related to a novelette in Term 1
 Reads a dialogue
 Literature Study
 Use reading comprehension strategies
 Reading methodologies
 Assessment for Learning: read aloud
 Writes an interview
 Uses the writing process
 Writes a book review of the chosen novelette in Term 1
 Records words and their meanings in a personal
dictionary and word wall
 Uses dictionary
 Uses reading log/card
 Word level work
 Infinitive verbs
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7.  Sentence level work
 Direct Speech
 Quotation marks for direct speech
 Main clause
 Dependent clause (simple)
 Word meaning
 Similes
 Metaphor
 Idioms and proverbs
 Spelling and punctuation:
 Comma
 Colon
 Semi-colon
 Inverted commas
 Question mark
 Exclamation mark
 Full stop
7-8
Text type: Instructional text
 Listens to and carries out instructions, e.g.
directions/rules/safety rules/how to wash your
hands/instructions for making something
 Introductory activities
 Listens to and gives directions
 Practices Listening and Speaking (Choose one for daily
practice): Responds physically to instructions/Gives and
follows simple instructions/directions
 Reads an instructional text
 Reading methodologies
 Assessment of learning: read aloud
 Reading for enjoyment
 Word level work:
 Auxiliary verbs
 Modal verbs
 Moods
 Sentence level work:
 Future tense
 Spelling and punctuation:
 Word division, dictionary use
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8. 9-10 Assessments
TERM 2 SUMMARY OF ASSESSMENTS
Task Number Nature of the Task Task Details
1 ORAL (20 marks)
Read aloud (20 marks)
This task is a continuation from Term 1. It will be completed and recorded in Term 2.
4 WRITING (10 marks)
Transactional writing: (10 marks)
Written before the controlled test
5 RESPONSE TO TEXTS (40 MARKS)
Question 1: Literary / non-literary text comprehension (15 marks)
Apply Barrett’s Taxonomy - Cognitive Levels:
Level 1 and 2 questions – 6 marks
Level 3 questions – 6 marks
Level 4 and 5 questions – 3 marks
Question 2: Visual text comprehension (10 marks)
Apply Barrett’s Taxonomy - Cognitive Levels:
Level 1 and 2 questions – 4 marks
Level 3 questions – 4 marks
Level 4 and 5 questions – 2 marks
Question 3: Summary writing (5 marks)
Question 4: Language Structures and Conventions in context (10 marks)
SIGNATURES:
Teacher: __________________________________________
Date: _____________________________________________
Departmental Head / Grade Head / Subject Head: __________________________________
Date: ________________________________________________________________
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9. ENGLISH LANGUAGE
CURRICULUM COVERAGE
GRADE 4
TERM 3
Teacher Name and Surname:
Week English Home Language Recovery ATP 2023 - 2024
Each class in the Grade
(Fill in date indicating when it was
completed)
COMMENTS/REFLECTION
A B C D
1-2
Text type: Folklore
 Listens to folklore, e.g. myth/legend
 Introductory activities
 Retell the story (folklore: myth/legend)
 Reads folklore, e.g. myth/legend
 Reading for meaning/reading comprehension
 Reading methodologies
 Reading for enjoyment
 Writes a recount of the folklore read
 Personal dictionary
 Word level work:
 Prefix
 Roots and suffix
 Past tense
 Sentence level work:
 Simple sentences
 Complex sentences
 Paragraphs
 Word meaning:
 Proverbs
 Idioms
 Moral (of the story)
 Punctuation:
 Capital letters, full stop, comma, colon, semi-colon
3-4
Creative Writing Project - Selected Genre (poetry/folklore/drama/short story)
 Listens to and participates in a brief conversation on
the Creative Writing Project based on the selected
genre
 Introductory activities
 Reads for information based on selected genre
 Introductory activities
 Uses different types of graphic organisers to collate
research findings of the Creative Writing Project
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10.  Introductory activities
 Word level work:
 Adverbs
 Sentence level work:
 Complex sentences
 Word meaning:
 One word for a phrase
 Strengthening of LSC that are related to research of the
selected genre
5-6
Creative Writing Project
 Focuses on the selected genre
 Introductory activities
 Guides learners to understand the CWP rubrics and
assessment requirements
 Introductory activies
 Writes draws/creates the written aspect of the selected
topic
 Introductory activities
 Word level work:
 Stems
 Sentence level work:
 Simple sentences
 Complex sentences
 Verb clause
 Spelling and punctuation:
 Colon
 Reinforcement of LSC covered in previous weeks
7-8
Text type: Poems
 Listens to a poem/s and completes a listening
comprehension activity
 Introductory activities
 Assessment for Learning
 Reads a poem/s and completes reading
comprehension
 Introductory activities
 Reading methodologies
 Reading for enjoyment
 Writes sentences that rhyme
 Introductory activities
 Personal dictionary
 Word level work:
 Conjunctions
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11.  Sentence level work:
 Statements, simple sentences
 Word meaning:
 Personification
 Alliteration
 Similes
 Metaphors
 Rhythm, rhyme
 Spelling and punctuation:
 Dictionary use, abbreviations – acronyms,
truncation, initialisation
9-10
Text type: Advertisement
 Listens to an advertisement read aloud or from radio or
TV
 Introductory activities
 Learners to participate in group discussions on a social
issue related to the advertisements
 Assessment for Learning
 Reads an advertisement and completes a reading
comprehension
 Introductory activities
 Reading methodologies
 Reading for enjoyment
 Writes an advertisement
 Introductory activities
 Uses the writing process
 Personal dictionary
 Word level work:
 Collective nouns
 Reflexive pronouns
 Stems
 Conjunctions
 Sentence level work:
 Subject-verb agreement
 Adjectives
 Adverbs
 Verbs
 Similes
 Metaphors
 Idioms
 Spelling and punctuation:
 Full stop, commas, colon, semi-colon, question
marks, exclamation mark, capital letters
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12. TERM 3 SUMMARY OF ASSESSMENTS
Task Number Nature of the Task Task Details
6 CREATIVE WRITING PROJECT
Project based on any ONE of the literature genres studied: poetry / folklore / drama / short
stories. Note: There must be a variation of genres across the grades.
Stage 1: Research (10 marks)
Stage 2: Writing (30 marks)
7 CREATIVE WRITING PROJECT
Stage 3: Oral presentation (20 marks)
Commence with the oral task in term 3 and conclude in term 4 when the mark will be recorded.
SIGNATURES:
Teacher: __________________________________________
Date: _____________________________________________
Departmental Head / Grade Head / Subject Head: __________________________________
Date: ________________________________________________________________
ENGLISH HOME LANGUAGE
CURRICULUM COVERAGE
GRADE 4
TERM 4
Teacher Name and Surname:
Week English Home Language Recovery ATP 2023 - 2024
Each class in the Grade
(Fill in date indicating when it was
completed)
COMMENTS/REFLECTION
A B C D
1-2 Text type: Short Story
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13.  Listens to a short story
 Introductory activities
 Participates in group discussions
 Assessment for Learning
 Reads a short story
 Reading for meaning
 Literature study
 Reading methodologies
 Reading for enjoyment
 Writes a short story
 Uses the writing process
 Personal dictionary
 Word level work:
 Adverbs of place and degree
 Tenses
 Conjunctions
 Pronouns
 Sentence level work:
 Noun phrase
 Noun clause
 Spelling and punctuation:
 Capital letters
 Full stop
 Comma
 Word division
3-4 Text type: Play/Drama
 Listens to a play/drama read aloud or from radio or TV
 Assessment for Learning
 Reads a play/drama and completes a reading
comprehension
 Reading methodologies
 Reading for enjoyment
 Writes a dialogue
 Uses the writing process
 Records words and their meanings in a personal
dictionary and word wall
 Uses a dictionary
 Uses a reading log/card
 Word level work:
 Collective nouns
 Reflexive pronouns
 Stems
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14.  Sentence level work:
 Subject-verb agreement
 Direct and indirect speech
 Spelling and punctuation:
 Full stop, comma, colon, semi-colon, question
mark
5-6
Text type: Newspaper/magazine Article
 Listens to and discusses current issues based on
newspaper/magazine article
 Introductory activities
 Presents a prepared speech
 Assessment for Learning
 Reads a newspaper/magazine article
 Reading for meaning
 Reflects on texts read during independent/pair reading
 Reading for enjoyment
 Writes a summary of a newspaper report
 Uses the writing process
 Records words and their meanings in a personal
dictionary and word wall
 Uses drawings or sentences to show meaning
 Uses a reading log/card
 Word level work:
 Adjectives
 Verbs: main verbs, regular verbs, transitive and
intransitive verbs
 Sentence level work:
 Subject
 Object
 Subject-verb agreement
 Present tense
 Spelling and punctuation:
 Full stop, comma, question mark, exclamation
mark
7-8
Revision
Formal Assessment of the oral presentation
9-10 Assessments
TERM 4 SUMMARY OF ASSESSMENTS
Task Number Nature of the Task Task Details
7 ORAL
Oral Presentation on CWP (20 marks)
This task is a continuation from Term 3. It will be completed and recorded in Term 4.
8 WRITING
Transactional writing: (10 marks)
Written before the controlled test
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15. 9 RESPONSE TO TEXTS (40 MARKS)
Question 1: Literary / non-literary text comprehension (15 marks)
Barrett’s Taxonomy: Cognitive Levels:
Level 1 and 2 questions – 6 marks
Level 3 questions – 6 marks
Level 4 and 5 questions – 3 marks
Question 2: Visual text comprehension (10 marks)
Barrett’s Taxonomy: Cognitive Levels:
Level 1 and 2 questions – 4 marks
Level 3 questions – 4 marks
Level 4 and 5 questions – 2 marks
Question 3: Summary writing (5 marks)
Question 4: Language Structures & Conventions (10 marks)
SIGNATURES:
Teacher: __________________________________________
Date: _____________________________________________
Departmental Head / Grade Head / Subject Head: __________________________________
Date: ________________________________________________________________
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