1. Prose

• Themes: Stories often explore themes like friendship, bravery, family, moral values, and adventures.
• Skills: Focus on reading comprehension, vocabulary building, and understanding the central message of the text.
• Activities: Summarizing, answering questions based on the text, character analysis, and understanding the plot.

2. Poetry

• Themes: Poems often reflect nature, emotions, human experiences, and social values.
• Skills: Students learn to appreciate rhythm, rhyme, and poetic devices like metaphors, similes, alliteration, etc.
• Activities: Recitation, identifying poetic devices, understanding the poet’s message, and interpreting meanings.

3. Grammar

• Topics Covered: Parts of speech (nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, pronouns, conjunctions, prepositions), tenses, active and passive voice, direct and indirect speech, sentence structure, subject-verb agreement, and punctuation.
• Activities: Exercises for practice, sentence construction, correcting errors, and transforming sentences.

4. Writing Skills

• Types of Writing:
  • Essays: Narrative, descriptive, expository, and argumentative.
  • Letters: Formal and informal letters.
  • Diary Entries: Personal reflections and daily experiences.
  • Story Writing: Creating original stories with a clear beginning, middle, and end.
• Activities: Guided writing practice, creative writing prompts, and editing drafts.

5. Reading Comprehension

• Skills: Understanding the main idea, identifying supporting details, making inferences, and summarizing passages.
• Activities: Answering questions based on unseen passages, discussing interpretations, and practicing comprehension exercises.

6. Supplementary Reader

• Content: Usually, this is an additional book with stories or a novel that students read over the course of the year.
• Skills: Encourages extensive reading, enhances vocabulary, and helps in understanding different writing styles.
• Activities: Discussions, book reviews, and projects related to the stories or novel.

7. Speaking and Listening

• Speaking: Focus on improving fluency, pronunciation, and confidence through activities like debates, group discussions, presentations, and role-plays.
• Listening: Enhancing listening skills through comprehension activities, following instructions, and listening to stories or news clips.