Chapter 4: Writing Skills
What you need to learn in this chapter
This chapter is designed to enhance students' ability to write neatly and legibly, focusing on both print and cursive writing. It covers essential writing skills such as communicating basic information clearly in print and digital media, using appropriate language, form, and style for various purposes. Students will develop prewriting skills, early writing skills, and strategies to communicate personal and general information effectively.
Students will also learn how to describe people, things, and basic information clearly and organize their writing appropriately. The chapter emphasizes the importance of punctuation, spelling high-frequency words accurately, and structuring sentences and paragraphs logically.
In addition to improving writing mechanics, students will work on planning, drafting, and editing their work on familiar topics, while focusing on key language concepts like adjectives, adverbs, articles, common and proper nouns, complex sentences, conjunctions, and more. The chapter also covers essential grammar rules, including subject-verb agreement, the use of pronouns, possessives, and understanding prefixes, suffixes, and prepositions.
Through exercises on cloze passages, text completion, and proofreading, students will practice refining their writing, ensuring clarity and accuracy. By the end of the chapter, students will have strengthened their ability to write clearly, with proper grammar, spelling, punctuation, and structure for various writing purposes.
Topics in this chapter
1. Form letters and words in neat legible print using cursive writing
What you will learn in this topic
- Develop prewriting skills
- Develop early writing skills
2. Communicate basic information intelligibly for a range of purposes in print and digital media
What you will learn in this topic
- Communicate basic personal information clearly
- Communicate basic information clearly
- Describe people and things clearly
- Organise basic information appropriately
3. Communicate with appropriate language form and style for a range of purposes in print and digital media
What you will learn in this topic
- Punctuate texts appropriately
- Spell high frequency words accurately
- Plan, draft and edit work appropriately on familiar topics
4. Adjective
5. Adverb
6. Article
7. Cloze Passage / Text Completion
8. Common Noun and Proper Noun
9. Complex Sentence
10. Conjunction
11. Countable Noun and Uncountable Noun
12. Demonstrative Pronoun
13. Determiner
14. Essay
15. Gender
16. Personal Pronoun
17. Possessive Case
18. Possessive Pronoun and Possessive Adjective
19. Prefix and Suffix
20. Preposition
21. Pronoun
22. Punctuation
23. Simple Sentence
24. Singular Noun and Plural Noun
25. Spelling
26. Subject-Verb Agreement
27. Verb
28. Verb To Be
29. Verb To Have
30. WH-Question (Interrogative Pronoun)
31. Writing Subjective
32. Proofreading
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