Developing advanced literacy and communication skills
Strengthen your literacy! The Grade 4 Language Arts curriculum develops sophisticated reading, writing, speaking, and listening skills through engagement with diverse Caribbean and world texts and media.
Develop advanced literacy through listening, speaking, reading, viewing, writing, and representing
Grade 4 · Language Arts
Develop critical listening and confident speaking skills for a range of formal and informal communication purposes.
The learner will explore, use, and critically apply oral language for pleasure, and personal growth, to foster relationships and to develop an appreciation and celebration of culture and of oral languages.
28 specific outcomesGrade 4 · Language Arts
Read and analyse diverse text types with comprehension strategies, critical thinking, and response to literature.
Students will demonstrate a variety of ways to use background knowledge and interests to select and engage critically with a range of culturally diverse paper based, visual, and digital texts for pleasure and personal growth.
13 specific outcomesStudents will interact with understanding and critical thought to a variety of genres and text forms using vocabulary, comprehension strategies and graphophonic cues.
31 specific outcomesStudents will develop their understanding of how an author’s choice of vocabulary, language, genre, text form, text features and style influence the meaning of text and define the author’s craft.
14 specific outcomesLearners will generate, gather, and organize thoughts to explore, clarify and reflect on thoughts, feelings, and experiences as they create a written or representative draft, independently and collaboratively, for a range of audiences and purposes.
22 specific outcomesGrade 4 · Language Arts
Produce clear, structured writing across genres, applying craft, voice, and writing process conventions.
Students will revise the organization and language use in drafted writing or representation, collaboratively and independently, for a variety of purposes and audiences.
19 specific outcomesStudents will use their knowledge of spoken language, written language and writing conventions to refine the precision and enhance the meaning and clarity of their written work.
11 specific outcomes