Pathways School Gurgaon

Grade 4
English – Sow and Grow Booklet

Table of Contents

Subject Topic Page

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Enhance Speaking Skills 2-3

• Speaking Task 1 (2 Days)
• Speaking Task 2 (2 Days)

Enhance Writing Skills

• Descriptive writing choice board (3 4-5
days)
• Informative writing choice board (3 6-7
days)
• Poetry choice board (3 days) 8-9

Enhance Listening skills

• Listening Task 1 (1 Day) 10
• Listening Task 2 (1 Day) 11
• Listening Task 3 (1 Day) 12

Enhance Reading skills 13

Language

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 Pathways School Gurgaon
Grade 4
Language Arts- English
Skill in focus- Speaking

Learning Objective: To enhance presentation skills

Activity time: 2 days

Let me help you understand…

Day 1- Prepare
Day 2- Present / Perform

Prepare
1. Research on any topic/ issue/ idea/ DIY.
(You may refer to the table below given.)
2. Make your notes.
3. Prepare the script for its presentation. Idea Topic
4. Practice on your own.

Present/ Perform
• Record your video of your presentation and
upload it on Padlet.

A few examples DIY Issue

Idea How can one make How can one reduce the How can we reduce food
online classes more time taken in fixing all six insecurity in our
interesting? faces of a Rubik’s Cube? country?
Topic Geological Disasters What gives butterfly its Reasons why Donald
colour? Trump lost in the
elections?
Issue Education for girl child Poverty leading to early Cross-border conflicts
death
DIY How to use an old pair How to make a Christmas How to design a bird
of jeans? Pinata using waste perch from soft drink
material? bottles?

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 Pathways School Gurgaon
Grade 4
Language Arts- English
Skill in focus- Speaking

Learning Objective: To enhance the skill of delivering an effective extempore speech.

Activity time: 2 days
Board game- Me Extempore- Talking Topics

Day 1- Prepare
Day 2- Play

Requirement
• Board (to be prepared)
• Dice
• Different coloured playing tabs (one for each player)

Prepare the board

• Resize and take a printout of the grid shared below or draw it on a sheet
• Fill the grid with short speaking tasks. e.g., a joke; about your best friend; about a
famous monument; on a beach; I dream to…; when you were caught…
• Set a time limit to speak (e.g., 30/45 sec)

Rules for the game

• Formulate your own

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 Pathways School Gurgaon
Grade 4
Language Arts- English
Skill in focus- Writing

Learning Objective: To recapitulate Descriptive Paragraph writing.

Activity time: 3 days
Task: Choose any one task each day (for 3 days) from the following choice board.
Refer to the checklist given on the next page to monitor your work.
Minimum words 80-100
Winter vacation is here! Food is nutritious and colourful. Write a descriptive
Many of us love the beach and others Everyone has their favourite food paragraph on the
love the mountains for a vacation. item. What is your favourite food in architectural marvel “Taj
Day 1 Which one would you prefer- the beach the world? What does it look like? Mahal” in your own words
or the mountains? Choose any. How does it smell and taste in your using 5 senses.
What does the place look like? Does the mouth? Describe your favourite food
place have a feel to it? How does the item.
Attempt place smell? What sounds do you hear?
any
1 Write a descriptive paragraph. Write a descriptive paragraph.

Write a descriptive paragraph on the

architectural marvel “Machu Pichu” in Think of your favourite place to play.
your own words. It may be your room, backyard, a
playground, or an open field. What
Day 2 does this place look like? What
sounds do you hear? What does it
feel and smell like? Describe your
favourite place to play in a way that
Attempt it creates a picture in the mind of the
any reader.
1 your imagination or a bunch
Write a descriptive paragraph.
Flowers always make a
garden, or a room look
vivacious. Think of a
garden full of flowers or a
bunch of flowers in a room.
Imagine it in your mind.
What does it look, feel, smell
like? Write a descriptive
paragraph on the garden of
of flowers so that your
reader can picture it in his or
her mind.

Some people prefer dogs as pets, some If you get a chance to go

like cats, and others prefer birds,
snakes, fish, rabbits, pigs, horses, and
Day 3 other animals. What is your perfect
pet? What does it look like? Is it soft or
hard? Does it make any sounds? Now
describe your idea of a perfect pet and
Attempt how would you like to take care of it.
any Don’t forget to add sensory details
1 while describing your pet.
Write a descriptive paragraph.
Imagine yourself taking a ride in the
“London Eye”. How do you feel?
What do you see around you? What
do you hear? Describe your
experience in your own words using
the 5 senses.
Christmas shopping to a
mall/ imagine a bustling
marketplace you frequently
visit.
Use the sensory organ
organizer to collect details to
write a descriptive paragraph
on the scene on of a busy
market place/ mall/ shopping
centre.

Write a descriptive paragraph.

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Time to self-assess:
Hone your analytical skills by self-assessing your descriptive paragraph with the following
checklist.

Checklist for Descriptive Paragraph writing

My report
Yes May be No

Ideas Does my paragraph have a clear, focused main idea?

Do my supporting sentences provide at least three types of
sensory details, to the reader?
(eyes; nose; ear; tongue and skin)
Organization Does my paragraph have
 a topic sentence

 supporting sentences

 end/ concluding sentence/s

 are my sentences in sequence

Word choice Did I use some interesting words that vividly describe the
object?
 adjectives- describing words
 connectives-joining words and ideas
Sentence Are my sentences complete and well formed?
structure
Did I avoid writing long sentences without the use of
conjunctions
Conventions Did I check my capitalization, punctuation, and spellings?

Voice Does my paragraph have a flow?

Process of Have I followed the process of writing
Writing

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Learning Objective: To express your creativity through paragraph writing
Activity time: 3 days
Task: Choose anyone writing prompt each day (for 3 days) from the following choice board.
Refer to the checklist given to monitor your work.
Minimum words 80-100
Day 1
Thomas Edison once said “That he
didn’t make mistakes, he just learned
10,000 ways not to make a light
bulb”.
Let us reflect and write the
challenge/challenges we have faced
in past and how have we overcame
them.
Write a paragraph.
Share your understanding of the
above quote from the famous movie
‘Lion King’ through a paragraph.
Observe the picture carefully. Write
a problem and solution paragraph.
Pathways School Gurgaon
Grade 4
Language Arts- English
Skill in focus- Writing
Day 2
Write a paragraph on an exciting day
spent by you during your vacation.
Christmas symbolizes the “Joy of
Giving.”
Write a paragraph, on how you have
extended help to someone in need
during these vacations.
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Day 3
Using the above picture as a clue,
write a cause-and-effect paragraph.
Effect = forest fire
Cause = the reasons
Free Bee Day
Think of a prompt of your choice and
write a paragraph.
The count of one-horn rhinoceros in
Kaziranga National Park is decreasing.
Write a cause-and-effect paragraph on
what could be the possible reasons of
their decline.
Effect = decline in numbers
Cause = the reasons
Time to self-assess:
Hone your analytical skills by self-assessing your paragraph with the following checklist.

General What is my Paragraph’s ‘main idea’ or title? (Main Idea)

Information

Paragraph Writing Checklist Yes No Maybe

Organization • Does my paragraph have

o a topic sentence/s

o supporting sentences

o end sentence/s

o are my sentences in sequence

Word choice • Did I refer to the ‘connective list’ from the

Self-Help centre?
• Have I used connectives suitable for the
text structure chosen by me

Sentence • Are my sentences complete and well

formed?
structure • Have I avoided writing very long sentences?
Conventions • Have I checked my work for COPS?
(Capitalization, Organization, Punctuation, Spellings)
Voice • Does my paragraph have a flow?
Work Have I submitted the published work?
Submission

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Skill in focus- Writing Learning Objective: To recapitulate Poetry Writing.
Activity time: 3 days
Task:
• Choose any one poem for your choice (each day) by clicking on the following link.
https://poetryminute.org/
• Choose any one task each day (for 3 days) from the following choice board.
Day-1
Select a poem of your choice and
complete any one task from the
following for the day. Remember to
mention the title and the name of the
poet.
Visualizing
Visualize the selected poem and express
your opinion about the thoughts of the
poet in the form of a paragraph.
Comic Strip
Create a comic strip of the selected
poem. Your comic strip must show what
happens in the poem.
Theme
What is the theme of the poem chosen
by you? Support your answer with
details from the verses or stanza.
Pathways School Gurgaon
Grade 4
Language Arts- English
Skill in focus- Writing
Day-2
Select another poem of your choice
and complete any one task from the
following for the day. Remember to
mention the title and the name of the
poet.
Figurative Language
Find a piece of figurative language
(simile, metaphor, onomatopoeia,
alliteration, personification) in the
poem. Justify reasons for your choice.
Rhyming Words
Rewrite the selected poem with a
different rhyming pattern and rhyming
scheme.
New Ending
Rewrite the poem, adding a new,
creative ending. You can replace the
ending stanza or add one more
towards the end.
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Day-3
Select another poem of your choice
and complete any one task from the
following for the day. Remember to
mention the title and the name of
the poet.
Identifying its structure
Read the selected poem and identify
its structure (diamante, acrostic, free
verse, limerick etc...) Now rewrite
the same poem in your own words in
a structure of your own choice.
Comprehending
Create 5 questions about your
selected poem. Questions must be in
at least 2 formats (multiple choice,
fill in the blank, true/false, critical
thinking questions). Include an
answer key with the questions.
Poetry Appreciation
Appreciate the selected poem using
the below prompts:
• Poet
• Title of the poem
• Favourite line/ stanza
• Poetic device/devices used
in the poem.
Support your answers with examples
from the poem.
Time to reflect!

Excelling Achieving Developing

I thoroughly enjoyed reading I thoroughly enjoyed reading the I enjoyed reading the poems,
the poems and was able to poems and was able to however needed assistance in

identify the elements identify few elements of identifying the elements in

in the poems poetry writing in the poems the poems selected
selected selected understanding and
was able to was able to understand and answering the prompts
understand and answer prompts
answer prompts with
ease

Reflection:

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 Pathways School Gurgaon
Grade 4
Language Arts- English
Skill in focus- Listening

Learning Objective: To enhance concentration while

listening.

Activity time: 1 day

Task: Listen to the audio recording carefully and fill in

the following fill in the blanks given below.

Steps:
Prepare
• Sit at a quiet place
• Listen to the Audio embedded (Click here)

Perform- Fill in the blanks.

1. Susan's teacher is a 35-year old from the city of _______________________.

2. There are about ________________________________ students in the class.

3. The lessons are in the local ________________________________________.

4. The best student in the class is a________________________ girl called Miko.

5. The student James wants to go to ___________________________ next year.

6. Most of the students come from ____________________________________.

7. One of Susan's classmates is a friend of _______________________________.

8. In today's lesson, they learned how to ask someone's name and some ______________.

Self-assess- Listen to the audio once again to check your answers.

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 Pathways School Gurgaon
Grade 4
Language Arts- English
Skill in focus- Listening

Learning Objective: To enhance concentration while listening, and gain accuracy in

comprehension.

Activity time: 1 day

Task: Listen to the instructions being read out to you, and draw as directed.

Requirement
• a sheet of paper
• a facilitator to read out the instructions
• a noise-free area to sit comfortably

Instructions for the facilitator

• read out each instruction twice
• allow time between each instruction for the listener to complete the required task(s)

List of instructions
1. Write your name at the top of the page, in the middle.
2. If you have black hair, draw a cross through your name. Otherwise, put a circle around it.
3. If you are wearing anything blue, write the letter ‘B’ under your name. Otherwise, write the letter
‘S’.
4. Draw a square about 2 centimetres by 2 centimetres in the middle of the page.
5. Draw another square around that.
6. Do the same 2 more times.
7. Write some letters of the alphabet around the biggest square, but not on its top surface.
8. in the middle square, put the last letter of your last name.
9. Write your age at the bottom of the page, in the middle.
10. Draw a spider on the top of the biggest box on your page.

Self- assess
Compare what you have drawn with the Sample. (click here)

Rubric Just perfect! Very close to the Slightly different Quite Different
sample
My Drawing was

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 Pathways School Gurgaon
Grade 4
Language Arts- English
Skill in focus- Listening

Learning Objective: To enhance concentration while listening.

Activity time: 1 day

Task: Listen to the instructions being read out to you and draw as directed.

Requirement
• a sheet of paper
• a facilitator to read out the instructions
• a noise-free area to sit comfortably

Instructions for the facilitator

• read out each instruction twice
• allow time between each instruction for the listener to complete the required task(s)

List of instructions
1. Write your name and your age at the bottom of the page, in the middle.
2. If you have brown hair, draw a cross through your name. Otherwise, put a circle around it.
3. If you are wearing anything red, write the letter ‘R’ above your name. Otherwise, write the
letter ‘S’.
4. Draw 2 squares just above the middle of the page.
5. Draw one circle underneath them.
6. Put 3 crosses in each square.
7. Put 6 ticks in the circle. Around 3 of the ticks, put 3 circles.
8. Around the squares and the circles, draw a wavy line which closes them in.
9. Write your age 5 times along the top of the page , in the middle.

Self- assess
Compare what you have drawn with the Sample. (click here)

Rubric Just perfect! Very close to the Slightly different Quite Different
sample
My Drawing was

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 Pathways School Gurgaon
Grade 4
Language Arts- English
Skill in focus- Reading
Learning Objective: To enhance Reading Skill and its application.
Reading Time: Depends on your pace
Written Activity time: 3 tasks in 3 days
Requirement
• Choose any 2 books that you would want to read. (you may choose online/ offline)
o Points to remember-
the book must be as per your reading level
it can be from any genre
o For e-books
click here Tumble Book Library
sign in with Username: gurgaon Password: books
Task:
• Read the chosen books.
• Showcase the application of your reading skills through the books you have read.
o Pick any 2 engagements from the choice board below and perform these tasks.
o The square in green is compulsory for all

Frame 5 questions from the
book and answer them.
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Padlet.
Write a book report on the
book read by you. Keep in mind
the format that was discussed
in class. Upload your book
report on Padlet.
Change and rewrite the
ending of the book in your
own words. Upload your
creative ending on Padlet.
(Applicable to fiction
books)

Make an informative Power Attempt the quiz

Point Presentation to share associated with the book
some interesting facts you read by you. Upload the
have uncovered while screenshot of your score on
reading the book. Upload Padlet.
your PPT on Padlet. (Applicable to books read
(Applicable to nonfiction on Tumble Books)
books)
Grade 4 (2020-21)

Create a comic strip of your
favourite scene from the
book you have read.
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Rewrite the story in your own
words. Use your summarizing
skills- make it crisp. Upload the
summary on Padlet.
Create a storyboard for the
book read by you (any
part). You may choose to
create it online as well as
offline.
Upload it on the Padlet

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