Summary

• Description:

  The PDF document comprises Grade 9 Rationalized English Curriculum Design.

  This curriculum design is developed and published by the Kenya Institute of Curriculum Development (KICD). It was first published in 2024 as part of the rationalized Competency Based Curriculum (CBC) for Junior School. Grade 9 is the final level of Junior School and aims to strengthen learners’ proficiency in English as the official language, medium of instruction, and a key tool for communication, creativity, and lifelong learning.

  • Curriculum Level: Junior School (Grade 9)
  • Learning Area: English
  • Lessons per Week: 5 lessons (40 minutes each)
  • Total Suggested Lessons: 150
  • Focus Areas: Listening and Speaking, Reading, Grammar in Use, and Writing
  • Literature Component: Study of a class reader (Play genre) for basic literary appreciation
  • Approach: Competency-based, interactive and learner-centred with integration of themes, core competencies, values, PCIs, and Community Service Learning (CSL)

  It covers the following strands and sub-strands with suggested lesson allocation:

  • Strand 1.0: Listening and Speaking – 30 lessons
    • Polite Language (Euphemism)
    • Oral Literature – Short Forms
    • Listening Comprehension (Main idea and details)
    • Selective Listening
    • Pronunciation
    • Conversational Skills – Negotiation
    • Listening for Details
    • Oral Poetry
    • Diphthongs and Sentence Stress
    • Impromptu Speeches
    • Job Interview Skills
    • Listening to Respond (Expressing feelings)
    • Extensive Listening – Speeches
    • Intonation in Sentences (Question tags)
    • Oral Reports – News
  • Strand 2.0: Reading – 60 lessons
    • Reading Skills
      • Independent Reading
      • Reading Fluency
      • Reading for Information and Meaning
      • Interpretation and Evaluation
      • Extensive Reading (Fiction)
      • Study Skills – Note Making
      • Summarising (Various text types)
      • Use of Reference Materials
    • Class Reader (Play)
      • Structure and Setting
      • Plot
      • Characters and Characterisation
      • Style
      • Themes
      • Lessons Learnt
      • Relating the text to real life
      • Project based on the Play
  • Strand 3.0: Grammar in Use – 30 lessons
    • Gender Neutral Language
    • Nouns and Quantifiers
    • Modal Auxiliaries
    • Present and Past Perfect Aspect
    • Order of Adjectives
    • Comparison of Adverbs
    • Relative and Interrogative Pronouns
    • Complex Prepositions
    • Correlative Conjunctions
    • Determiners (Numerals and Ordinals)
    • Phrasal Verbs
    • Complex Sentences
    • Direct and Indirect Speech
    • Imperatives and Exclamatory Sentences
  • Strand 4.0: Writing – 30 lessons
    • Legibility and Neatness
    • Punctuation
    • Paragraph Structure
    • Narrative and Descriptive Writing
    • Letter of Application
    • Spelling
    • The Writing Process
    • Assessing Writing
    • Narrative Composition
    • Filling Forms (Application Forms)
    • Abbreviations and Acronyms
    • Creative Writing (Idioms)
    • Descriptive Writing
    • Email Writing

  The curriculum is organised around thematic contexts such as Citizenship, Science Fiction, Environmental Conservation, Consumer Protection, Community Relationships, Leisure, Tourism, Social Media, Income Generating Activities, Personal Grooming, Marine Life, Sports, and Global Issues to support meaningful language use and real-life communication.

• Category:

  Curriculum Designs
• Level:

  Grade 9
• Subject:

  ENGLISH

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