English Curriculum & ICT Links 3rd - 6th Class

Strands, Strand Units & ICT Links

Strand Unit: Oral Language

Oral Language – BBC Skillswise

Oral Language – Spellings & Vocabulary

Oral Language – Poems & Stories

Oral Language - Planning Resources

Oral Language - ImageBank

Descriptor of Resource & Learning Objective

• Discuss the meanings and origins of words, phrases and expressions
• Learn how to use the basic key questions.
• Discuss favourite moments, important events and exciting characters in a story, play or poem.
• Express reactions to events and characters in stories, poems & drama.

Strand Unit: Reading

Reading – BBC Skillswise

Reading - Bitesize Skills

Reading – Classic Novels

Reading – Planning Resources

Reading - Literactive

• Understand the relationship between text and illustration.
• Develop basic information retrieval skills and experience different types of text.
• Continue to develop comprehension strategies to deal with narrative, expository and representational reading material.
• Share responses with other children and with adults to cultivate a community of readers

Strand Unit : Writing

Writing - Grammar Zone

Writing – Primary Resources

Writing - Writing Genres

Writing - Paragraphs

Writing – Planning Resources

Writing – CrickWeb

Writing – PPDS Tutorials

• Experience a classroom environment that encourages writing.
• Learn to revise and re-draft writing so as to expand and clarify his/her thoughts on a particular idea or topic through drafting and re-drafting.
• Write in a variety of genres with greater sophistication.
• Express his/her reactions to particular experiences in writing.
• Express a personal reaction to ideas, emotions and images encountered in literature. Sketch an ordered summary of ideas and draft a writing assignment based on it.