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English
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Free English revision notes for IB Primary Years Programme (PYP) students. Each chapter covers a key topic with worked examples and practice prompts you can take straight into the thinka app.
Grade 1
Reading: foundations (phases 1-2)
Concepts of print and how books work
Sound-symbol relationships and decoding
High-frequency and environmental print words
Reading cues, fluency and self-correction
Responding to shared and guided reading
Reading: text types and structure (phase 3)
Text types and their purposes
Story structure: beginning, middle and end
Predicting, confirming and revising meaning
Fiction and non-fiction
Parts of a book and locating information
Characters: personality and behaviour
Grade 2
Grammar: Nouns, Verbs, and Adjectives
Reading: interpretation and inquiry (phase 4)
Author's purpose and audience
Main idea, plot and sequence of events
Ideas, feelings and attitudes in a text
Skimming, scanning and selecting information
Reading on screen and digital texts
Vocabulary in context
Grade 3
Reading: critical and literary response (phase 5)
Inference and justification
Genre and its literary forms
Figurative language and imagery
Elements of a story: plot, setting, character, theme
Fact, opinion and reliable information
Comparing and contrasting two texts
Grade 4
Speaking and Listening
Writing: text types and purposes
Narrative writing
Descriptive writing
Instructional and procedural writing
Persuasive and opinion writing
Informative and expository writing
Personal journal and reflective writing
Letters, messages and forms for an audience
Grade 5
Writing: craft and process
Planning with graphic organizers
Organizing ideas and paragraphing
Voice, audience and purpose
Atmosphere, mood and imagery in writing
Drafting, editing and revising
Peer critique and publishing
Grade 6
Advanced Grammar and Usage
Grammar and conventions in use
Sentence structure and word order
Sentence types: statements, questions, commands
Sentence variety and length
Word classes in use: nouns, verbs, adjectives
Verb tense and clauses
Punctuation to support meaning
Spelling patterns and the written code
Handwriting, legibility and presentation
Vocabulary and functions
Word building and word meaning
Precise and topic-specific vocabulary
Figurative and idiomatic expressions
Functional language: asking, explaining, comparing
Language for persuading and giving opinions
Using a dictionary, thesaurus and word banks
Contexts for inquiry
Stories and imagined worlds
Information texts and inquiry
Media, advertising and visual texts
Signs, labels and texts in our environment
Personal experience and reflection
Locating, organizing and synthesizing information
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