Elementary English - Grade 6

1: Intonations

Listening
- Distinguish changes in meaning of sentences caused by stress e.g.
  - This is your dress (It's yours)
  - This is your dress (It's definitley a dress)
Speaking
- Increase one's speaking vocabulary
  - Relay information accurately using different discourse (statement, questions, commands)
  - Use the correct intonation
    - Yes-No questions
    - Questions introduced by interrogatives
- Ask and answer questions using pictures/dialogues/comic strips.
  - Change statements into questions
  - Use tag questions
    - negative and positive e.g
      - We get food from the forest, don't we
      - You don't buy junk food, do you

2: Unfamiliar Words

3: Directions

Listening
- Follow a series of directions listened to
  - labeling diagrams
  - completing a chart
Reading
- Follow a series of directions in
  - experiments
  - prescriptions
  - cooking
Writing
- Write specific directions on given situations e. g. interpret a diagram/ road map

4: Main Idea

Listening
- Give the main idea of a selection listened to
Speaking
- Use courteous expressions on appropriate situations
  - Participate in club meetings
  - Conducting an interview
Reading
- Tell the big ideas/key concepts implied in each paragraph of the story read
  - Give the details that support the big idea
  - State the main idea of a paragraph that is explicit or implied
Writing
- Write a model composition and arrange details in order
  - arrange details in order
  - home and reading report
  - diaries
  - minutes of meetings

5: Noting Details

Listening
- Note details in a selection listened to
  - identify the setting, main and secondary characters, climax and ending of a story
Reading
- Note significant details
  - Identify the events of the plot of a story, poem, short plays
Writing
- Write a summary of what was read
- Write from dictation
  - Reconstruct a dictated text by taking down important notes.

6: Accurate Reports

Speaking
- Retell a selection listened to
  - news broadcast
  - fiction stories
- Read orally/recite poems cast for a verse choir
- Give accurate announcements
  - Give a report based on an interview
Writing
- Write reported statements in a story form
  - Change statements, questions, requests and commands to reported sentences

7: Sequencing Events

Listening
- Sequence events of a story listened to through guided questions
Speaking
- Use Nouns
  - plural and compound nouns
  - gerunds
- Use nouns that are plural in form but singular in meaning. e.g. news, measles
Reading
- Sequence the key concepts/big ideas to show wholeness of the story/selection
  - Use a story grammar to show sequence of episodes in a Story

8: Cause and Effect

Listening
- Give possible cause/effect to situations/news stories heard
Speaking
- Use a variety of sentences as to structure
  - Simple
    - simple subject with compound predicate
    - compound subject and simple predicate
    - simple subject and compound predicate
    - compound predicate and compound subject
  - Compound
    - using connectors and and but
  - Complex
    - dependent and independent clause
Reading
- Perceive relationship
  - Tell the relationship expressed in the selection as to cause and effect
  - Give other possible causes to a given effect and other effects to a given cause

9: Organizing Ideas

Reading
- Organize ideas
  - Make a heading/subheading for paragraphs in a selection
  - Identify the key concept/sentence that make up the story
  - Identify the details, heading for an outline
  - Make a three-point outline of an expository text read
Writing
- Write an outline of a story read.
  - Write a two or three point sentence outline

10: Predicting Outcomes

Listening
- Analyze ideas as to what could happen next from stories heard
Speaking
- Use indefinite pronouns
  - Use the verb that agrees with the indefinite pronouns.
- Use the different verb forms
  - present perfect form
  - active and passive voice
  - expressions about future plans â hope-can; wish, could if
Reading
- Predict outcomes
  - Give other events that could happen next
  - Draw pictures of incidents/characters that is possible to happen
  - Give possible endings to a selection
Writing
- Write an ending to a given situation

11: Making Inferences

Listening
- Make inferences
  - Infer the mood of certain events through the speaker's actions/intention/utterances
- Speaking
  - Use adjectives
    - Use descriptive words and phrases
      - too + adj. + nominal e.g. too short for
      - adjective + enough e. g. old enough
      - two-word adjective e. g. two-story building
    - degree of comparison of irregular adjectives
    - adjectives in series
Reading
- Infer
  - traits of character
  - the general mood of the selection
  - how the story would turn out if some episodes were changed
  - alternative actions taken by characters
Writing
- Write a model composition
  - write about one's feelings/reactions using the correct form of the verb

12: Evaluating Ideas

Listening
- Evaluate and make judgments
Reading
- Draw conclusions based on information given
  - Evaluate if a conclusion made is justifiable
  - Identify sufficient evidence to justify a conclusion/generalization
- Evaluate ideas/make judgments
  - Give opinions about information read
  - Determine the purpose of the author
  - Identify the author's device to bring out his message
Writing
- Organize one's thoughts in writing
  - information
  - description
  - resume

13: Adverbs

Speaking
- Use Adverbs
  - degrees of comparison of adverbs
  - words that can function as adjective/adverb
- Use direct and indirect discourse
Reading
- Use the library resources effectively
  - Use card catalog, atlas, almanac, and other general references
Writing
- Respond in writing based on stimuli and triggers
  - application letter
  - directions
  - ads for work, editorials

14: Topics of Interest

Speaking
- Talks about topics of interest
  - use a variety of sentences
  - preposition and prepositional phrase
Reading
- Use the library resources effectively
  - Get information from newspapers and other references
    - Parts of a newspaper
    - Information one gets from each other
Writing
- Fill out forms
  - Information Sheet
  - Community Tax Certificates
  - Bank Notes