Zambia Grade 3 English Syllabus
This syllabus outlines the key components of the Grade 3 English curriculum, focusing on developing listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills. It builds upon the foundational literacy skills acquired in prior grades, using a communicative approach to language learning.
General Outcomes
- Acquire listening and speaking skills.
- Acquire reading and writing skills.
Key Competences
- Express feelings, thoughts, experiences, and convictions clearly and effectively in speech and writing.
- Apply life skills to address challenges using English.
- Apply reading skills to comprehend written texts for academic work.
Curriculum Components
The Grade 3 English curriculum is structured around the following core components:
Listening and Speaking
This component emphasizes developing receptive and expressive oral language skills. Topics covered include:
- Conversations: Engaging in dialogues about chores, family responsibilities, and community objects (shops, clinics, etc.).
- Time: Telling time, recalling days of the week and months of the year.
- Storytelling: Retelling traditional and modern stories, sequencing events.
- Puzzles: Recognizing and solving word puzzles.
- Proverbs/Sayings: Recognizing and interpreting simple proverbs.
- Drama: Dramatizing familiar stories, developing voice projection and confidence.
- Poetry and Tongue Twisters: Reciting poems, rhymes, and tongue twisters.
- Occupations: Identifying occupations in the locality and the tools/equipment used.
- Objects in School: Talking about objects found in the school environment.
- Colors: Discriminating colors in different objects.
- Antonyms and Synonyms: Identifying and using antonyms and synonyms.
- Appropriate Language: Using socially acceptable language for expressing gratitude, disapproval, and acknowledgment.
- Animals: Identifying names of wild animals.
- Games: Using language in playing games.
- Community Practices: Discussing good and bad practices in communities.
- Riddles: Recognizing and interpreting riddles.
- Processes: Describing simple processes.
Reading
This component focuses on developing reading comprehension and fluency. Key areas include:
- Reading Words: Reading familiar and new words, including names of wild animals.
- Alphabet: Identifying capital and small letters.
- Pronunciation: Pronouncing words correctly.
- Syllable Identification: Identifying syllables in familiar words.
- Word Formation: Forming words using syllables.
- Sentence Formation: Forming simple sentences.
- Intensive Reading: Practicing silent reading skills.
- Reading Aloud: Reading passages with appropriate pace, pronunciation, and understanding.
- Stories: Identifying themes or central ideas of stories.
- Interpreting Information: Locating information in print resources (charts, graphs, tables, maps).
Writing
This component aims to develop writing skills for various purposes. Topics include:
- Alphabet: Writing capital and small letters, sequencing letters in alphabetical order.
- Handwriting: Writing legibly and neatly using cursive and print.
- Sequencing: Rearranging sentences in a logical sequence to form paragraphs.
- Conjunctions: Using "and" and "but" to join simple phrases.
- Singular and Plural Nouns: Writing plural and singular forms of words.
- Dictation: Taking dictation of sentences and passages.
- Sentence and Paragraph Construction: Constructing short paragraphs on topical issues.
- Punctuation: Punctuating sentences and short paragraphs using capital letters, full stops, commas, and question marks.
- Summarizing: Summarizing simple stories.
Structure
- Tenses: Using simple present and present continuous tenses.
- Punctuation: Correct use of punctuation marks (capital letters, full stop, comma, question mark).
Resources
Textbooks and learning materials are used to support the teaching and learning process. Examples include:
- Longman English Learner's Book Grade 3
- English Matters For Zambia Basic Education Grade 3
- New Zambia Basic Education Course English Grade 3 Pupils Book
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