Form 1

Literature, Writing and Language 2018

Literature

Language

Language should be learnt within the context of your literature.

Apply your language analysis sheets to your literature.

  • Semi-colon
  • Apostrophe (contraction/omission; possession)
  • Full stop
  • exclamation mark
  • question mark
  • Comma
  • Colon
  • quotation marks
  • Parentheses (brackets, commas, dashes)
  • Ellipses
  • hyphen
  • capital letter
  • dash

Spelling patterns

  • spelling rules and conventions (decide on which ones from the Lutrin and Pincus)
  • Abbreviations
  • dictionary usage
  • Parts of words
  • Prefixes, roots and suffixes

Nouns

  • Collective nouns
  • Proper nouns
  • Abstract nouns
  • Compound noun

Pronouns

  • Personal pronouns as subject.
  • Personal pronouns as direct or indirect object.
  • Reflexive pronouns

Adjectives

Interjections

Words that express an emotion or sentiment on the part of the speaker.

Oh! Wow! My oh my!

Adverbs

Mood words for Form 1

Calm

Playful

Energetic

Cold

Lonely

Writing

  • Narrative/Reflective: Bishop Bousfield

(Begin with topic sentences, introduction and conclusion)

Transactional

  • Diary Entry
  • Dialogue (use it when teaching punctuation)