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Primary 3 English Language

• Joy of Learning
• Unit Coverage
• Level Focuses
• Strategies for Learning
• Assessment
• Home Support

Content

Joy of Learning

Newspapers

• Reading of newspapers
• Objectives:
• to encourage children to read current affairs
• to promote reading of a variety of text types
• Post-reading activities, such as journals, are

designed to instill critical reading skills and reflection

Joy of Learning

Charlotte’s Web

• Literature text as a supplementary reading material to:
• promote reading for enjoyment and reading to learn
• strengthen vocabulary knowledge and complex

sentence structures

• deepen reading comprehension skills with in-depth

analysis of characters and plots in the story

Unit Coverage

Term 1 Term 2 Term 3 Term 4 Fearless Phil Predators and Prey Unusual Plants Prince Zak and the Wise Frog The Gruffalo The Stars of Chek Jawa There’s a Boy Under the Bed Spilt Milk Camille and the Sunflower

Level Focuses

Oracy Writing

• Speak confidently by having

good posture, eye contact and smiles

• Speak with common sentence

starters with ease and confidence

• Able to justify, elaborate and

make comparison Generate and select ideas for writing and representing for a variety of purposes using Tell- Show strategy

Strategies for Learning

SSR – Sustained Silent Reading

• 10 minutes of silent reading
• Sharing of book read by teacher or students
• Promote reading for enjoyment and sharing of good books read

SR – Supported Reading (Narrative texts)

• Reading for understanding and enjoyment
• Making prediction and questioning
• Reading strategies
• Text types
• Text features

KWL – Know-Want to Know-Learnt (Non-fiction texts)

• Relate a new topic or information to what they already know
• Anticipate what they will be reading about
• Get involved in the text by having students look for information they want to find

Developing Language Skills

• Vocabulary words
• Grammar items
• Sentence manipulation
• Whole-text study
• Writing Process

Comprehension

• Read the text a few times to increase understanding.
• Using reading strategies such as retelling, questioning,

inferring, visualising, predicting and evaluating to deepen understanding.

• Use prior knowledge to make connections with the text and

make sense.

• Look up definitions of unfamiliar words in the text.
• Use TAPS (Tenses, Agreement, Punctuation and Spelling)

to check accuracy of written answers.

Continuous Writing

• Examine the question carefully
• e.g. Write a composition of at least 120 words about a rainy day (theme)
• Use one or more of the 3 given pictures to develop a plot
• Expand main ideas with details
• Explore more on the characters – senses, thoughts and feelings, actions and

behaviour

• Use Tell-Show Strategies:
• describe the scenes and events as if they are taking place in real time
• use vivid descriptions, actions and dialogues to put the readers in the story
• show the characters’ emotions through words and actions, not tell

Oral

Reading Aloud

• Pronounce every word accurately with clear ending sounds.
• Read fluently, pausing at the right part of the sentences.
• Vary tone, pitch and pace appropriately to convey the emotions
• f the characters in the text.
• Read clearly and loudly.

Oral

Stimulus-based Conversation

• Use the pictures to engage in a conversation.
• State choices with explanations.
• Elaborate on ideas by giving opinions and reasons, describe

thoughts and personal experiences, and suggest possible actions.

• Use a wide range of vocabulary and accurate language

structures.

• Speak confidently and coherently.
• Speak loudly and clearly to be heard and understood.

Assessment

Term Components Marks Duration

1 Listening Comprehension:

• Picture matching
• Picture sequencing
• Note-taking
• Comprehension MCQ

14 30 min 2 Language Use and Comprehension:

• Vocabulary MCQ
• Grammar MCQ
• Grammar Cloze
• Editing for Spelling and Grammar
• Sentence Combining
• Comprehension

40 1 h 3

Continuous Writing

20 50 min

Semestral Assessment

Paper Components Marks Weighting Duration

1  Composition 20 20% 50 min 2  Language Use and Comprehension 50 50% 1h 15 min 3  Listening Comprehension 14 14% Approximately 30 min 4  Reading Aloud  Stimulus-based Conversation 16 16% Approximately 10 min Total 100 100%

Home Support

• Provide a wide variety of age-appropriate books for daily

reading.

• Expose children to different authors and genres.
• Read with, not read for, the child to involve him/her in reading

and understanding the text.

• Set mini authentic writing tasks (e.g. diary, making a shopping

list and taking telephone messages) to increase confidence and interest in writing.

• Model spoken Standard English Language.
• Set a routine for homework and revision – recalling improves

retention.

• Learn spelling and dictation timely.

Thanks!

Happy 2020