Corona Schools Trust Council
CORONA SCHOOLS’ TRUST COUNCIL
ENGLISH LANGUAGE SCHEME OF WORK: CLASS FIVE
THEME: THINKING AHEAD
First Term
Wk / COMPREHENSION / CREATIVE WRITING / GRAMMAR / VERBAL REASONING / SPELLING1 / Excalibur:
(Focus on Comprehension Unit 3, page 56) / Review of Writing Skills/ Features of Informative Essay / Review of Parts of Speech / Review of Work done in Class 4/ Arranging Words in Alphabetical Order pages 1 – 4 of Verbal Reasoning Inside Out / Review of Work done in Class 4.
2 / The Moon of Gomrath (Focus on Comprehension Book 3, page 6) / Using Appropriate Language & Vocabulary – use of adjectives, adverbs, connectives, etc.
Poetry link–
Rainbow Fairies
The Overseas Poetry Book 2, pages 22-23 / Nouns –Types: Proper and Common
(Nelson Grammar Book 3, pages 4-5, Target English page 15)
Poetry link –
The Elephant
Poetry for Africa Book 2, page 16 / Letter Series
Pages 5 – 6 of Verbal Reasoning Inside Out / Long vowel sound oa &ow. Pages 10-11
(Skills in Spelling and Vocabulary1)
3 / The Great Escape
(Focus on Comprehension
Book 3, page 15) / A Magazine Article on Child Abuse (Prewriting) / Nouns – Types: Abstract and Collective Nelson (Grammar Book 3, pages 18-19, 58-59) / Word Formation
Pages 7 – 11 of Verbal Reasoning Inside Out / Double Consonant l, page 24, (Skills in Spelling and Vocabulary1)
4 / The Titanic
(Developing Non- Fiction Skills pages 12-14) / A Magazine Article on Child Abuse (Draft) / Pronouns: Nominative and Objective / Bond Non –Verbal Reasoning Paper 1 / Hard and Soft ‘ch’ page 14 (Skills in Spelling and Vocabulary1)
5 / Rainforest in Danger (Developing Non –Fiction Skills pages 76-79) / A Magazine Article on Child Abuse
(Final essay) / Pronouns: Nominative and Objective / Compound Words Pages 53 – 56 of Verbal Reasoning Inside Out) / ‘Ph’ say ‘f’ page 22 (Skills in Spelling and Vocabulary1)
6 / The Old Forest (Developing Fiction Skills pages 12-13) / Why Rainforests Should Not Be Destroyed (Prewriting)
Poetry link –
I Wonder
Poetry for Africa
Book 2, page 15 / Pronouns- Possessive and Reflexive (Nelson Grammar Book 3 pages 14 &15, Target English pages 14 &15 / Coding & DecodingPages 160 - 164 of Verbal Reasoning Inside Out) / ‘Th’ sounds long and short page 16 (Skills in Spelling and Vocabulary1)
7 / Mid-Term / Mid-Term / Mid-Term / Mid-Term / Mid-Term
8 / The Giant Grabbist (Developing Fiction Skills pages 84-86) / Why Rainforests Should Not Be Destroyed (Final Essay) / Complete Subject and Predicate (Nelson Grammar Book 3, pages 30 &31) / Palindromes
Pages 27 – 28 of Verbal Reasoning Inside Out / Sh & SS Sound page 18 (Skills in Spelling and Vocabulary)
9 / Centaurus1
(Developing Fiction Skills pages20-22) / Create Your Commercial for Your Product or Service (Prewriting & Draft) / Simple Subject and Predicate
(Nelson Grammar Book 3 pages 50-51) / Bond Non –Verbal Reasoning Paper 2 / Silent K& W page 32 (Skills in Spelling and Vocabulary 1
10 / Snow White in New York (Focus On Comprehension
pages 26-28) / Create Your Commercial for Your Product or Service (Prewriting & Draft) / How to Combine Sentences
(Target English
pages 89-93) / Analogies
Pages 85 – 89 and 128 - 130 of Verbal Reasoning Inside Out) / Long vowel sound o-e, oa ow page 10 (Skills in Spelling and Vocabulary 1)
11 / Review of 1st Term’s Work. / Review of 1st Term’s Work. / Review of 1st Term’s Work. / Review of 1st Term’s Work. / Review of 1st Term’s Work.
12 / 1st Term Examination / 1st Term Examination / 1st Term Examination / 1st Term Examination / 1st Term Examination
13 / Revisit Topic - The Loch Ness Monster / Revisit Topic - Using appropriate language & vocabulary – use of adjectives, adverbs, connectives, etc. / Revisit Topic - How to Combine Sentences
(Target English
pages 89-93) / People, their Job Name and Tools
Pages 97 – 113 from Verbal Reasoning Inside Out. / Revisit Topic - Long vowel sound
14 / End of Term Activities / End of Term Activities / End of Term Activities / End of Term Activities / End of Term Activities
Note:
For Verbal Reasoning, Bond Assessment - Verbal should be used as a progressive course for homework or filler exercises. Each paper should be done following the prescribed time frame for each paper. More information on how best this book can be used can be found in the introductory pages.
CORONA SCHOOLS’ TRUST COUNCIL
ENGLISH LANGUAGE SCHEME OF WORK: CLASS FIVE
THEME: THINKING AHEAD
Second Term
WK / COMPREHENSION / CREATIVE WRITING / GRAMMAR / VERBAL REASONING / SPELLING1 / An Interview
(Focus on Comprehension page 21) / Review of 1st Term’s Work. / Review of 1st Term’s Work.
Poetry link - Great Wide Beautiful Wonderful World
The Overseas Poetry Book 2, pages 13-14 / Review of 1st Term’s Work./ Word Patterns
Pages 16 – 19 of Verbal Reasoning Inside Out / Review of 1st Term’s Work.
2 / The Man from Snowy River (Developing Fiction Skill pages 60-63) / Features & Styles of an Informal Letter / Verbs –Main and Auxiliary Verbs
Target English page 54 / Completing Words with Missing Letters
Pages 12 – 15 of Verbal Reasoning Inside out / Spelling Words With Double Spelling –‘c’,’s’(Scholastic)
3 / The Blind Man & The Elephant (Developing Fiction Skill page 46) / A Letter to a Friend (Write a letter to a friend telling him/ her about a memorable event in your school). Prewriting & Draft / Verbs – Present, and Past Tenses
Nelson Grammar book 3 pages 54-55 / Spelling
Pages 29 – 33 of Verbal Reasoning Inside Out. / The ‘shun’ sound, tion, sion page 46 (Skills in Spelling and Vocabulary1)
4 / The Buddhist Tale (Developing Fiction Skill pages 44-45) / A Letter to a Friend (Write a letter to a friend telling him/ her about a memorable event in your school). Final essay / Verbs: Perfect Tenses Present and Past
Target English pages 64-67 / Bond Non-Verbal Reasoning Paper 3 / Oi, oy sounds
(Skills in Spelling and Vocabulary1 page 42
5 / The Professor and the Ferryman (Focus on Comprehension page 10) / Features & Styles of a Formal Letter / Adjectives-Types
Target English 32-35, Nelson Grammar Book 3 pages 6&7
Poetry link - Butterflies
Poetry for Africa
Book 2, page 22 / Synonyms
Pages 47 – 49 of Verbal Reasoning Inside Out) / Soft ‘c’sound
(Skills in Spelling and Vocabulary1) page 28
6 / Anansi
(Developing Fiction Skill pages 68-70) / A Letter to the Head of School (Write a letter to your head of school asking for permission to be absent from school) Prewriting/Draft / Adjectives- Comparison
(Target English pages 36-37,Nelson Grammar Book 3 pages 24-25) / RhymesExercises on pages 43 and 44, pages 45 and 46 of Verbal Reasoning Inside Out. / ow, ou, sounds page 40 (Skills in Spelling and Vocabulary1)
7 / Mid-Term / Mid-Term / Mid-Term / Mid-Term / Mid-Term
8 / Swallows and Amazons (Focus on Comprehension pages 58-60) / A Letter to the Head of School (Write a letter to your head of school asking for permission to be absent from school).Final essay / Contractions (Nelson Grammar Book 3, pages 44-45) / Bond Non –Verbal Reasoning Paper 4 / Prefixes and Suffixes
9 / Revision of 2nd Term’s Work. / Revision of 2nd Term’s Work. / Revision of 2nd Term’s Work. / Revision of 2nd Term’s Work. / Revision of 2nd Term’s Work.
10 / 2nd Term Examination / 2nd Term Examination / 2nd Term Examination / 2nd Term Examination / 2nd Term Examination
11 / Revisit Topic - Old Forest. / Revisit Topics - Features of Formal and Informal Letters. / Revisit Topic - Contractions. / Prefixes and Suffixes
Pages 65 – 73 of Verbal Reasoning Inside out / Revisit Topic –Prefixes and Suffixes.
12 / End of Term Activities / End of Term Activities / End of Term Activities / End of Term Activities / End of Term Activities
Note:
For Verbal Reasoning, Bond Assessment - Verbal should be used as a progressive course for homework or filler exercises. Each paper should be done following the prescribed time frame for each paper. More information on how best this book can be used can be found in the introductory pages.
CORONA SCHOOLS’ TRUST COUNCIL
ENGLISH LANGUAGE SCHEME OF WORK: CLASS FIVE
THEME: THINKING AHEAD
Third Term
WK / COMPREHENSION / CREATIVE WRITING / GRAMMAR / VERBAL REASONING / SPELLING1 / How Laughter Helped Stopped Argument
(Focus on Comprehension page 31) / Review of 2nd Term’s Work. / Review of 2nd Term’s Work. / Review of 2nd Term’s Work.
Class or General Name
Pages 74 – 83 of Verbal Reasoning Inside Out / Review of 2nd Term’s Work
2 / The Hairy Toe
(Focus on Comprehension page 89) / Introduction to Non-fiction Writing
Poetry link –
The Song of the Shepherd
The Overseas Poetry Book 2, page 102 / Adverbs-Identification and formation (Target English pages 75-77) / Antonyms
Pages50 – 52 of Verbal Reasoning Inside Out / Double ‘ff’ page 44 (Skills in Spelling and Vocabulary)
3 / The Flight of Icarus (Developing Fiction Skill pages 36-38) / Writing An Autobiography (Prewriting & Draft)
Poetry link – My Shadow Overseas Poetry Book 2, pages 24-26 / Adverbs-Types (New First Aid in English page 68) / Simile
Pages 155 - 159, of Verbal Reasoning Inside Out / Spelling Words With ‘qu’
(Scholastic page 50)
4 / Getting Around in London(Developing Non Fiction Skills page 28) / Writing An Autobiography (Final essay) / Preposition And Prepositional Phrases (Nelson Grammar Pupil Book 3, pages 10-11, Target English pages 81-88, and Developing Non-Fiction Skill page 73). / Bond Non-Verbal Reasoning Paper 5(Bond Assessment Papers Third Papers in Non- Verbal Reasoning) / Silent Letter ‘h’ (Scholastic pages 12-13)
5 / The Beaufort Scale(Developing Non Fiction Skills page 4) / Writing A Biography (Pre-writing & Draft) / Correct Usage of Prepositions.
Poetry link –
Eating Tomorrow’s Yam
Poetry for Africa
Book 2, page 37 / Reasoning
Exercises on pages 167 - 169 of Verbal Reasoning Inside Out / Endings-‘ant,, ‘ance’ page 54 (Skills in Spelling and Vocabulary)
6 / Walking on the Moon(Developing Non Fiction Skills page 20) / Writing A Biography (Final essay) / Apostrophe Showing Possession(New First Aid in English page103, Target English page108) / Logical Assessment of Statement
pages 144 – 145
of Verbal Reasoning Inside Out / Endings- ‘end’ ‘ence’ page 56 (Skills in Spelling and Vocabulary)
7 / Mid-Term / Mid-Term / Mid-Term / Mid-Term / Mid-Term
8 / Pandora’s box (Focus on Compréhension page 36) / Introduction to Fiction Writing - Fable / Apostrophe Showing Possession(New First Aid in English page103, Target English page108) / Gender
pages61 - 64. Ex. 16.1, 16. 2 of Verbal Reasoning Inside Out / Silent ‘b’, ‘c’, and ‘g’ page 52 (Skills in Spelling and Vocabulary)
9 / Advertising (Developing Non Fiction Skills
page 92) / Writing Your Fable
(Prewriting & Draft) / Subject & Verb Agreement(Concord) (Nelson Grammar Pupil Book 3,
pages 34-35) / Non-Verbal Reasoning Paper 6(Bond Assessment papers Third papers in Non –Verbal Reasoning) / Endings –‘le’, ‘el’ al pages 62-63 (Skills in Spelling and Vocabulary)
10 / Revision of 3rd Term’s Work / Revision of 3rd Term’s Work. / Revision of 3rd Term’s Work. / Revision of 3rd Term’s Work. / Revision of 3rd Term’s Work.
11 / 3rd Term Examination / 3rd Term Examination / 3rd Term Examination / 3rd Term Examination / 3rd Term Examination
12 / Revisit Topic - Walking on the Moon / Revisit Topic -Writing Your Fable (Final essay) / Revisit Topic - Subject & Verb Agreement / Places and Events
Pages 120 – 127 of Verbal Reasoning Inside Out / Revisit Topics -Silent ‘b’, ‘c’, and ‘g’
13 / End of Term Activities / End of Term Activities / End of Term Activities / End of Term Activities / End of Term Activities
Note:
For Verbal Reasoning, Bond Assessment - Verbal should be used as a progressive course for homework or filler exercises. Each paper should be done following the prescribed time frame for each paper. More information on how best this book can be used can be found in the introductory pages.
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