Class IV English
Vocabulary
Prefixes and suffixes
- T.1 Identify base words, prefixes and suffixes
- T.2 Determine the meaning of a word with pre-, re- or mis-
- T.3 Use the prefixes pre-, re- and mis-
- T.4 Determine the meaning of a word with -ful or -less
- T.5 Determine the meaning of a word with -ly or -ness
- T.6 Determine the meaning of a word with -able or -ment
- T.7 Determine the meaning of a word with a suffix: review
- T.8 Determine the meanings of words with prefixes and suffixes: review
Greek and Latin roots
- U.1 Sort words by shared Greek or Latin roots
- U.2 Use Greek and Latin roots as clues to the meanings of words
- U.3 Use the meanings of words as clues to the meanings of Greek and Latin roots
- U.4 Determine the meanings of Greek and Latin roots
- U.5 Determine the meanings of words with Greek and Latin roots
- U.6 Match words with Greek and Latin roots to their meanings
Compound words
Synonyms and antonyms
Multiple-meaning words
Shades of meaning
Context clues
Reference skills
- CC.1 Order alphabetically based on the first letter
- CC.2 Order alphabetically based on the first two letters
- CC.3 Order alphabetically based on the first three letters
- CC.4 Order alphabetically: challenge
- CC.5 Use guide words
- CC.6 Use dictionary entries
- CC.7 Use dictionary definitions
- CC.8 Use thesaurus entries
Grammar and mechanics
Sentences, fragments and run-ons
- DD.1 Is the sentence declarative, interrogative, imperative or exclamatory?
- DD.2 Identify the complete subject of a sentence
- DD.3 Identify the complete predicate of a sentence
- DD.4 Identify the simple subject or predicate of a sentence
- DD.5 Is it a complete sentence or a fragment?
- DD.6 Is it a complete sentence or a run-on?
- DD.7 Is it a complete sentence, a fragment or a run-on?
- DD.8 Is the sentence simple or compound?
- DD.9 Order the words to create a sentence
Nouns
- EE.1 Which word is a noun?
- EE.2 Identify nouns
- EE.3 Identify nouns – with abstract nouns
- EE.4 Identify common and proper nouns
- EE.5 Form regular plurals with -s, -es and -ies
- EE.6 Use regular plurals with -s, -es and -ies
- EE.7 Form regular plurals with -s, -es, -ies and -ves
- EE.8 Use regular plurals with -s, -es, -ies and -ves
- EE.9 Is the noun singular or plural?
- EE.10 Form and use irregular plurals
- EE.11 Identify plurals, singular possessives and plural possessives
- EE.12 Form the singular or plural possessive
- EE.13 Identify and correct errors with plural and possessive nouns
Pronouns
- FF.1 Identify personal pronouns
- FF.2 Choose between subject and object personal pronouns
- FF.3 Replace the noun with a personal pronoun
- FF.4 Compound subjects and objects with ‘I’ and ‘me’
- FF.5 Identify possessive pronouns
- FF.6 Use possessive pronouns
- FF.7 Choose between personal and reflexive pronouns
- FF.8 Use reflexive pronouns
- FF.9 Identify relative pronouns
- FF.10 Use relative pronouns: who and whom
- FF.11 Use relative pronouns: who, whom, whose, which and that
Verb types
Subject-verb agreement
Verb tense
- II.1 Which sentence is in the regular past tense?
- II.2 Identify verbs in the regular past tense
- II.3 Form and use the regular past tense
- II.4 Identify the irregular past tense
- II.5 Form and use the irregular past tense: set 1
- II.6 Form and use the irregular past tense: set 2
- II.7 Form and use the irregular past tense: set 3
- II.8 Form and use the irregular past tense: set 4
- II.9 To be: use the correct form
- II.10 To have: use the correct form
- II.11 Is the sentence in the past, present or future tense?
- II.12 Change the sentence to future tense
- II.13 Use the progressive verb tenses
- II.14 Form the progressive verb tenses
- II.15 Choose between the past tense and past participle
- II.16 Use the perfect verb tenses
- II.17 Form the perfect verb tenses
Adjectives and adverbs
- KK.1 Does the adjective tell you what kind or how many?
- KK.2 Identify the adjective that describes the noun
- KK.3 Identify adjectives
- KK.4 Order adjectives
- KK.5 Does the adverb tell you how, when or where?
- KK.6 Identify adverbs
- KK.7 Use relative adverbs
- KK.8 Choose between adjectives and adverbs
- KK.9 Is the word an adjective or adverb?
- KK.10 Use adverbs to compare
- KK.11 Spell adjectives that compare
- KK.12 Use adjectives with more and most
- KK.13 Use adjectives to compare
Articles
Prepositions
Capitalisation
Formatting
Writing strategies
Organising writing
Introductions and conclusions
Linking words
Developing and supporting arguments
Descriptive details
Reading strategies