Basic Curriculum for Grade 5-6

Units to be covered/Comprehensive Vocabulary Areas

1. Media Genres: Terms for various types of books, movies, and TV shows, including genres like horror, adventure, and science fiction, as well as comics and newspapers.
2. School Subjects: Vocabulary related to History, Geography, Physical Education, and the Arts.
3. Sports and Hobbies: Vocabulary for tennis, cooking, and dance activities.
4. Numerical Proficiency: Basic arithmetic knowledge involving numbers up to 1000.
5. Temporal and Frequency Terms: Words related to time (e.g., yesterday, tomorrow) and frequency (e.g., often, never).
6. Cohesive Language: Vocabulary that enhances text coherence, such as “after,” “then,” and “because.”
7. Time and Cardinal Numbers: Skills in telling time and understanding cardinal numbers.
8. Chronological Awareness: Knowledge of significant dates and timelines.
9. Grammatical Tenses: Understanding various tenses, including simple past, simple future, and continuous future.
10. Cultural Origins: Vocabulary related to a person’s descent or background.
11. Descriptive Adjectives: Knowledge of adjectives that describe personal traits, like friendly and hardworking.
12. Comparative and Superlative Usage: Understanding how to use comparative and superlative forms of adjectives.
13. Countries and Nationalities: Vocabulary about different countries and nationalities.
14. Adverbials of Manner: Knowledge of adverbs that indicate manner, place, and time.
15. Extensive Vocabulary: A broad vocabulary encompassing foods, classroom items, public transport, neighbourhood locations, home, family, professions, clothing, weather conditions, animals and toys

Reading and Comprehension Skills

1. Contextual Understanding: Ability to use context clues to decipher unfamiliar words.
2. Information Retrieval: Skill in quickly locating specific information within a text (scanning).
3. Identifying Main Ideas: Proficiency in pinpointing the central theme of a text (skimming).
4. Temporal and Key Vocabulary Usage: Utilizing temporal words and key terms to enhance comprehension of the text.
5. Predictive Skills: Ability to formulate predictions about the content’s progression.
6. Visual Organizers: Employing visual aids to support text understanding.
7. Strategies for Managing Unknown Words:
   • Utilizing the text layout for clues and leveraging bold, underlined, or colored text for emphasis and referring to the title for context and using diagrams and images to aid comprehension.

Oral Comprehension Skills and Temporal Vocabulary

1. Oral Comprehension: Skills in understanding spoken texts, such as short films and movies
2. Past Tense: Proficiency in using the past tense in context.
3. Temporal and Frequency Keywords: Key terms related to time and frequency, including:
   • Time references: yesterday, today, tomorrow, the day/week/month/year after, the previous day/month/week/year, last year, once upon a time.
   • Frequency indicators: often, never, always.
4. Cohesion Keywords: Terms that enhance text coherence, such as: after, then, later, because, however.

Greek cultural themes

• Customs and Traditions: Various Greek practices and festivities.
• Significant Holidays: Observances such as OXI Day, Christmas, the Three Hierarchs, March 25th, April 1st, Sarakosti, and Greek Easter.
• Mythology and History: Exploration of Greek mythology and ancient history through storytelling, videos, and theatrical performances.