Collins Enriching English Reader Class 4

Key Features

• Comprehension checks factual understanding through ‘wh-’ and ‘reference-to-the-context’ questions.
• Vocabulary includes exercises on contextual usage, modes of vocabulary acquisition and figures of speech.
• Grammar includes graded practice tasks accompanied by simple explanations.
• Study Skills includes graded phonics, spelling and dictionary activities.
• Listening develops aural comprehension skills through various kinds of factual questions.
• Speaking includes role plays, conversation practice and public speaking tasks through solo, pair and group work.
• Writing includes guided and free writing exercises that develop functional and creative writing skills.
• The Activity in the poetry chapters includes exercises which combine hands-on tasks with creative writing skills. Every task includes plenty of scaffolding in the form of suggested vocabulary and reference samples.
• Now I can … is a self-assessment checklist at the end of every chapter.
• Read at Leisure includes suggestions for further reading related to the author or theme of the reading passage.
• Cross-curricular Projects, of which there are three, cover literature based activities that revisit the themes covered in each book.
• A glossary of literary terms and genres at the end of the book acts as a ready reference.