Academic Plan for English Tutoring Program (Grade 4)

LISTENING AND SPEAKING
  • Identify speaker's techniques, promises, dares, flattery
  • Distinguish between speaker's opinions and variable facts
  • Interviewing, reporting , requests , providing  information
READING
  • Prefixes , suffixes  like , dis , _non  , in  -ness , able
  • Using Dictionaries
  • Different ways of using words
  • Answer open ended, literal , true/ false , multiple choices
  • Judging the logic of stories and texts such as "would this character do this?" does this make sense here?
  • Biography , historical fiction , informational texts , poetry
READING COMPREHENSION
  • Title, author, illustrator, playwright, theater, poem, myths, fables, limerick, autobiographies  
  • Character analyses, story plot, setting, their traits, motivations, conflicts, points of view, relationships
  • Note taking, outlining ideas, making charts
  • Compare text with real experiences
 WRITING
  • Compose humorous poems and short stories
  • Journals, letters, reviews, poems, narratives and instructions
  • Penmanship, capitalizations, punctuations, Paragraphs
  • Frame questions to direct research
  • Note taking from relevant sources
  •  E-mail and conventional mail
  • Class newspapers multimedia, report, video report
GRAMMAR
  • Parts of speech
  • Types of sentences
*All academic plans will be customized to accommodate the student’s individual needs.