Summary

• Description:

  The PDF document comprises Grade 8 Rationalized English Term 2 Schemes of Work 2026 - Smart Minds.

  This schemes of work provides comprehensive coverage of the Term 2 2026 Grade 8 English syllabus.

  • Number of Weeks: Weeks 1 to 12. The missing weeks out of the 14 weeks are either dedicated to the mid-term break or end of term 2 revisions, exam preparation, and administration.
  • Number of Lessons/Periods per Week: 5

  It covers the following strands and sub-strands:

  • Rehabilitation (Weeks 1-3)
    • Listening and speaking: Conversational Smart Minds
      • Disagreeing politely and using non-verbal cues
    • Reading fluency
      • Reading poems fast, skimming, and reading accurately with expressions
    • Grammar in use
      • Word classes: Adverbs of frequency and degree
    • Intensive Reading
      • Short stories: identifying main ideas and relating them to real-life situations
    • Writing: Mechanics
      • Spelling commonly misspelt words, using prefixes/suffixes, and silent vowels
  • Natural Resources: Wildlife (Weeks 3-5)
    • Listening and Speaking
      • Listening for details in a recorded text
    • Intensive Reading: Visuals
      • Identifying and interpreting visuals (optical illusions, graphs, charts)
    • Grammar in use
      • Word Classes: Indefinite and reflexive pronouns
    • Intensive Reading: Short story
      • Identifying characters, relationships, and their roles in depicting real-life experiences
    • Composition Writing
      • Writing a dialogue on a given topic, revising, and editing
  • Tourism: Domestic (Weeks 5-8)
    • Listening and Responding: Oral Narratives
      • Identifying characters and moral lessons in myths
    • Intensive Reading: Poem
      • Inferring meaning of unfamiliar words and making evidence-supported judgments
    • Grammar in use
      • Word Classes: Simple prepositions of position, place, and time
    • Intensive Reading: Poetry
      • Identifying and describing inanimate characters in poems
    • Writing
      • Assessment of writing: identifying and correcting errors in an essay
  • Heroes and Heroines: Africa (Weeks 7-11)
    • Pronunciation
      • Sounds: vowels /a:/ /3:/ and consonants /tf/ and /d3/, stressed and unstressed words
    • Extensive Reading: Grade appropriate fiction Materials
      • Identifying and describing character traits in fiction texts
    • Grammar in use
      • Word Classes: Conjunctions (because, that, when, if, unless, since)
    • Intensive Reading
      • Identifying and explaining similes and metaphors in short stories
    • Creative Writing: Narrative Compositions
      • Planning and writing a narrative composition (240-280 words) using revealing details
    • Listening and speaking
      • Oral Presentations: format and effective speaking techniques
    • Study Smart Minds
      • Note Making: identifying key points and summarizing texts
    • Grammar in use
      • Word Classes: Determiners and Quantifiers
    • Functional Writing
      • Thank you notes and congratulatory notes
  • Choosing a Career (Weeks 12-14)
    • Listening and speaking
      • Conversational Smart Minds: conducting interviews using polite expressions
    • Extensive Reading: Non-fiction
      • Scanning and reading non-fiction materials for general information
    • Grammar in use
      • Word Classes: Forming adverbs from adjectives
    • Intensive Reading
      • Identifying and relating lessons learnt from a short story to real life
    • Writing Mechanics
      • Identifying and using prefixes and suffixes
• Length:

  17 pages
• Category:

  Schemes of Work
• Level:

  Grade 8
• Subject:

  ENGLISH
• Posted By:

  Caleb_Peter

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