2013 Summer schedule: Mon , Wed, Fri or
Summer Primary 1
Summer program
Section 1
Week 1 – 2
Mon, Wed, Fri
15 to 26 July
Tue, Thur , Sat
16 to 27 July
Section 2
Week 3 - 4
Mon, Wed, Fri
29 July to 9 Aug
Tue, Thur , Sat
30 July to 10 Aug
Section 3
Week 5 - 6
Mon, Wed, Fri
12 to 23 Aug
Tue, Thur , Sat
13 to 24 Aug
Total English Skills
(MON) / (TUE)
Total : 6 weeks
Tue , Thur, Sat
(WED) / (THUR)
(FRI) / (SAT)
Grammar & Usage
Reading
Writing and Comprehension
Games for problem solving
Week 1
Nouns
Names of a Person, Place or Thing
‘Splat’ by Joyce O’Connor
Telling Sentences
Asking Sentences
Sentence Sense Review
Week 2
Verbs
Action Verbs
Linking Verbs: Is, Am, Are
Has and Have
‘Splat’ by Joyce O’Connor
Comprehension Warm-up
Logic Games
Week 3
Nouns and Verbs
Pronouns
‘The Wind Blew’ by Pat
Hutchin
Predicting Outcomes
Logic Games
Week 4
Adjectives
Describing Words
Adjectives that tell what kind, how many and what colour
‘The Wind Blew’ by Pat
Hutchin
Sequencing
Writing sentences to express
sequences
Week 5
Plural Nouns
More than One
‘The Night Before Summer
Vacation’ by Natasha Wing
Following Directions
Making Deduction
Week 6
Punctuations and Sentence Sense
Capital Letter and Period
Questions and Exclamations
‘The Night Before Summer
Vacation’ by Natasha Wing
Expanding Sentences & Writing
Stories
Riddles
*Extra supplementary worksheets will be provided to quick-learners.
2013 Summer schedule: Mon , Wed, Fri
or Tue , Thur, Sat
Summer Primary 2
Summer program
(MON) / (TUE)
Total : 6 weeks
Week 1
Section 1
Week 1 – 2
Mon, Wed, Fri
15 to 26 July
Tue, Thur , Sat
16 to 27 July
Week 2
Section 2
(FRI) / (SAT)
Grammar & Usage
Reading
Writing and Comprehension
Grammar: Nouns
‘Young Cam Jansen’ series by David A
Comprehension Warm-Up
Proper and Common Nouns
Adler
Main Idea
Recalling Details
Grammar: Plural Nouns
‘ Young Cam Jansen’ series by David A
Writing : Sentence about a Picture
Add ‘s’ and ‘es’
Adler
Using Details to tell the Main Idea
Words Ending in’y’
Using Exact Words
Irregular Plural Nouns
Proofreading Sentences
Grammar: Verbs
‘Science Vocabulary Reader’
Creative Writing
Identifying Verbs
Imagine that…
Singular Verbs
Pretend that…
Helping Verbs
Week 4
Week 5
Section 3
Week 5 - 6
Mon, Wed, Fri
12 to 23 Aug
Tue, Thur , Sat
13 to 24 Aug
(WED) / (THUR)
Articles
Week 3
Week 3 - 4
Mon, Wed, Fri
29 July to 9 Aug
Tue, Thur , Sat
30 July to 10 Aug
Total English Skills
Grammar: Present – Past
‘Science Vocabulary Reader’
Writing a Personal Story I
Present-Tense Verbs
Topic Sentence
Past-Tense Verbs
Grouping Ideas to Story
Irregular Verbs
Write about a personal story
Pronouns
‘The Snow Day from the Black Lagoon’
Writing a Personal Story II
Possessive Pronouns
Using Synonyms
Singular and Plural Pronouns
Proof read a personal story
Write about a personal story
Week 6
Sentence Sense
‘The Snow Day from the Black Lagoon’
Writing a Personal Story III
Subjects and Predicates
Sequencing Events
Combining Sentences
A Practice Personal Story
Word Order
Writing a Personal Story
* Home reading will be assigned.
2013 Summer schedule: Mon , Wed, Fri or
Summer Primary 3
Summer program
Total : 6 weeks
Week 1
Section 1
Week 1 – 3
Mon, Wed, Fri
15 July to 2 Aug
Tue , Thur, Sat
Total English Skills
Grammar & Usage (MON /TUE)
Reading (WED / THUR)
Grammar: Nouns
‘The Bailey School Kids Jr’ ’series
Proper
Comprehension and Writing ( FRI / SAT)
by
Comprehension - Reading Skills: Main Idea I
and Common Nouns
Marcia T Jones and Debbie Dadey OR ‘Black
Main Idea: Identifying Relevant Information
Plural and Singular Nouns
Lagoon Adventures’ series by Mike Thaler
Finding the Main Idea in Simple Comprehension Exercises
Identifying the Main Idea Sentences in a Paragraph
Week 2
Tue, Thur , Sat
16 July to 3 Aug
Grammar: Verbs
‘The Bailey School Kids Jr’ ’series
by
Writing - Writing a Personal Narrative
Verbs: Present, Past and
Marcia T Jones and Debbie Dadey
OR
Identifying a Beginning, a Middle and an Ending Sentence in a
Future Tense
‘Black Lagoon Adventures’ series by Mike
Paragraph
Simple Present and
Thaler
Write a Short Paragraph of a Personal Narrative
Present Continuous
Past and Irregular Past
Week 3
Section 2
Week 4 – 6
Week 4
Mon, Wed, Fri
5 to 23 Aug
Grammar: Pronouns and Possessive
‘The Bailey School Kids Jr’ ’series
by
Comprehension - Reading Skills: Main Idea & Detail Sentences
Possessive Nouns
Marcia T Jones and Debbie Dadey
OR
Main Idea in Paragraphs
Pronouns
‘Black Lagoon Adventures’ series by Mike
Sentences that Support and Does Not Support the Main Idea
Posessive Pronouns
Thaler
Noting Details
Grammar: Adjectives and Adverbs
‘Horrible Harry’ Series by Suzy Kline
Writing - Writing Skills: Informative Writing I
Adjectives and
‘Junie B’ series by Barbara Park
Identifying Main Idea and Details in a Paragraph
Adverbs
Adjectives and Nouns
Week 5
Comparing Information Paragraphs
Grammar: Articles and Commas
‘Horrible Harry’ Series by Suzy Kline
Comprehension – Reading Skills: Making Inferences
Prepositions
‘Junie B’ series by Barbara Park
Using Logic to Figure out the Meaning of Words
Articles
Tue, Thur , Sat
6 to 24 Aug
Making Inferences in Figuring out the Meaning of the Story
Commas
Week 6
Grammar: Parts of Speech and Writing
‘Horrible Harry’ Series by Suzy Kline
Writing – Informative Writing II
Sentences
‘Junie B’ series by Barbara Park
Making a List and Write a Paragraph
Parts of Speech
Write about Farm Animals
Complete the Sentences
Practice Paper
Completing a Story
* Home reading will be assigned.
Summer Primary 4
Summer program
Total : 6 weeks
Week 1
Section 1
Week 1 – 3
Week 2
Section 2
Week 4 – 6
Mon, Wed, Fri
5 to 23 Aug
Tue, Thur , Sat
6 to 24 Aug
Grammar & Usage (MON / TUE)
Reading(WED/THUR)
Comprehension and Writing (FRI / SAT)
Grammar: Nouns
‘The Jacket’ by Andrew
Comprehension - Reading Skills: Context Clue
Noun as Subject, Direct Object & Indirect Object
Clements or other titles
Comprehension Passages: ‘Passengers Cars’, ‘News
Stories’, ‘Samuel Clements’
Proper and Common Nouns, Abstract and Concrete Nouns
Mon, Wed, Fri
15 July to 2 Aug
Tue, Thur , Sat
16 July to 3 Aug
Total English Skills
Week 3
Week 4
Week 5
Week 6
Grammar: Verbs Tenses
‘The Jacket’ by Andrew
Writing – Persuasive Writing
Verbs: Present, Past and Future Tense
Clements or other titles
Write a Persuasive Paragraph
Verb Forms, Principal Parts of Verbs
Plan and Draft a Persuasive Paragraph
Irregular Verbs (To be continue in week 3 if time allows)
Revise and Publish a Persuasive Paragraph
Grammar: Adjectives
‘The Jacket’ by Andrew
Comprehension – Reading Fables
What is an Adjective?
Clements or other titles
Practising Exercises: Various Fables
Adjectives That Tell How Many and What Kind
Skills Involved: Cause and Effect, Main Idea, Sequencing,
Adjectives That Compare
Predicting
Grammar: Adverbs
‘Stuart Little’ by
Writing – A Story
Adverbs that Tell How, Where and When
E.B.White or other titles
Write a story: characters, setting and plot
Adverbs that Compare
Plan and Draft a Story
Adverbs or Adjectives
Revise and Publish a Story
Grammar: Subject and Object
‘Stuart Little’ by
Comprehension – Reading Fiary Tales
Which Noun is the Subject
E.B.White or other titles
Reading Various Fairy Tales
Subjects and Verbs
Skills involved: Recognizing Details, Making Inference,
Complete Sentences
Brainstorming, Making Comparison and Characterization
Grammar: Four Kinds of Sentences
‘Stuart Little’ by
Writing – Writing Skills: Summarizing
Conjunctions
E.B.White or other titles
Summarizing the comprehension passages
Statements and Questions
Summarizing an Autobiography
Exclamation and Request
Writing an Autobiography
Using Commas Correctly
* Home reading will be assigned.
Summer schedule: Mon , Wed, Fri or
Summer Primary 5-6
Summer program
Total : 6 weeks
Grammar & Usage
Week 1
Section 1
Week 1 – 3
Tue , Thur, Sat
Total English Skills
(MON /
TUE)
Reading
(WED
/ THUR)
Writing & Comprehension
(FRI / SAT)
Four Kinds of Sentences
‘The Giraffe and the Pelly and Me’
Comprehension Works: Kites
Complete and Simple Subjects, Complete and Simple Predicates
or other titles by Roald Dahl
Reading Skills: Main Idea/ Recalling Details
Compound Subjects and Compound Predicates
Writing a Paragraph Summary
Simple and Compound Sentences, Conjunctions
Week 2
Mon, Wed, Fri
\
15 July to 2Aug
Prefixes
‘The Giraffe and the Pelly and Me’
Writing: Building Paragraphs
Learn about Prefixes and Word Root
or other titles by Roald Dahl
Writing Skills: Organizing Paragraphs with a
Define Words with the Help of Prefixes and Word Root
Topic Sentence and Support Sentences
Writing Skills: Paraphrasing (if time allows)
Tue, Thur, Sat
\
16 July to 3 Aug
Week 3
Suffixes
‘The Giraffe and the Pelly and Me’
Comprehension Works: Fun with Photography
Defining Words with the help of Suffixes and Word Roots
or other titles by Roald Dahl
Reading Skills: Generalizations
Phrases and Clauses
‘Math Rashes & Other Classroom
Writing: Outlining a Speech
Predicate Nominatives, Predicate Adjectives
Tales’ by Douglas Evans
Writing Skills: Outlining
Changing the Correct Forms of the Words (verbs, adjectives, and
nouns)
Section 2
Week 4 – 6
Week 4
Combining Dependent and Independent Clauses
Mon, Wed, Fri
5 to 23Aug
Writing a Short Speech
Forming Combine and Compound Sentences
Week 5
Avoiding Sentence Fragments and Run-on Sentences
‘Math Rashes & Other Classroom
Writing: Summarizing a Personal Narrative
Combining Sentences to Avoid Choppy Writing, Compound
Tales’ by Douglas Evans
Writing Skill: Summarizing
Sentences
Mon, Wed, Fri
6 to 24 Aug
Summarizing a Personal Narrative
Commas with Sentences, Other Punctuation within Sentences
Week 6
Adjective Clauses, Adverb Clauses, Noun Clauses
‘Math Rashes & Other Classroom
Writing: Different Points of View
Participles and Participial Phrases
Tales’ by Douglas Evans
Reading Skills: It’s Your Opinion
Gerunds and Gerunds Phrases
Infinitives and Infinitive Phrases
Dangling Participles and Infinitives, Misplaced Modifiers
Persuasive Writing