Language/Reading Curriculum in the Fourth Grade
Reading Policy
The policy on reading provides for the development of language sense and understanding of the role of sentences and texts and the meaning of words in the expression of thoughts. It also increases the love and interest for the beauty and richness of the instruction language. This direction ensures an independent perception of texts written in different styles and deepens the interest in the mother tongue and in scientific and fictional publications in the language of instruction. The policy on reading at this level also serves to enhance the vocabulary of students to develop speech culture.
The fourth grade curriculum mainly considers the enhancement of vocabulary foundation. At the end of Grade 4, students will be able to:
- Demonstrate understanding of new words
- Name things and events that he/she encounters for the first time and compare them to similar things and events
- Present words and terminology that he/she has learned
- Prepare a dictionary of the words and terminology that he/she has learned
- Demonstrate reading skills
- Read texts quickly, accurately, and consciously according to determined requirements
- Make presentations about fictional and scientific texts
- Determine the main idea of the text and analyze the characters
- Retell the text in a creative form
Summary of National Curriculum
The mother tongue curriculum is a conceptual document that covers essential activities to fulfill educational standards and determines learning goals and targets. While preparing the curriculum, coverage of students’ cognitive, informative, communicative, and noncognitive activities and the development of their thinking and emotional skills were taken into account. Mother tongue curriculum is one of the essential issues of national interest and statehood.8
At the primary school level, with the help of mother tongue instruction, students should be able to:9
- Read and write independently, accurately, quickly, and consciously
- Engage in a dialogue, expressing their thoughts fluently
- React to texts they have read or listened to
- Choose important factors out of different texts, classify them, and make up short texts
- Present primary information about the language of Azerbaijan and its history, values, culture, art, customs, and traditions in a simple way
- Use dictionaries and manuals