Woodlands odlands Ri Ring ng Pri rimar mary y School hool - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

Woodlands odlands Ri Ring ng Pri rimar mary y School hool Primary 5 Parents’ Briefing 30 30 Ja Janu nuar ary y 20 2015 15 Eng nglish lish De Depa partm tment ent

Agenda • P5 STELLAR Curriculum • EL Assessment Structure • Expectations at the Upper Level • Supporting Your Child at Home

EL Assessment Structure Paper Pap r / Content nt (marks rks) Compo ponent Paper r 1 / Wri riting ting • Situational Writing (15m) (27.5%) • Continuous Writing (40m) Paper 3 / Listenin ning g • Various text types – MCQ(20m) Compr prehe ehension nsion (10%) Paper 4 / Oral • Reading aloud (10m) (15%) • Stimulus-based Conversation (20m)

EL Assessment Structure Paper Pap r / Compo ponent nt Content nt Paper r 2 / Lang nguag uage e Use Bookl Bo klet t A (28m) and Compr prehe ehension nsion • Grammar MCQ (47.5%) • Vocabulary MCQ • Vocabulary Cloze • Visual Text Comprehension Booklet t B ( (67m) m) • Grammar Cloze • Editing for Spelling & Grammar • Comprehension Cloze (15 Blanks) • Synthesis & Transformation • Comprehension OE

Paper 1 / Situational Writing

Paper 1 / Continuous Writing

Paper 3 / Listening Comprehension

Paper 3 / Listening Comprehension

Paper 3 / Listening Comprehension

Paper 4/ Oral – Stimulus Based Conversation

Paper 2 / Vocabulary Cloze

Paper 2 / Visual Text Comprehension

Paper 2 / Comprehension Cloze

Paper 2 / Editing for Spelling and Grammar

Expectations at the Upper Primary • Both Comprehension Cloze and Comprehension Open-ended sections require:  Good reading comprehension skills  Strong vocabulary • Pupils need to:  Read carefully  Be alert to the clues in the passage and/or questions

Expectations at the Upper Primary • Do not fill in the blanks immediately • Read the whole text once to understand the gist of text • Look out for clues in the text (e.g. backward and forward referencing – there is information for the answer in the whole text.) • If they are stuck on a particular question, they should skip it and continue reading

Expectations at the Upper Primary Comprehension is challenging because it involves: • Literal comprehension (questions related to who, what, where, when) • Inferential comprehension (questions related to why, what if, how) • Evaluative comprehension (pupils’ opinions)

Expectations at the Upper Primary • Read the questions before the passage to get an idea of what to look out for later • Highlight the question word (e.g. why, what, etc.) in each question • Pay attention to the tense of the main verb in the question • Remember that the questions follow the chronological order of the passage

Supporting Your Child at Home Encourage your child to:  LISTEN to it! Inp nput  READ it!  SPEAK it! Ou Output put  WRITE in it!

Supporting Your Child at Home Pro roviding iding the e In Inputs puts • Make going to the library a habit • Set aside 30 minutes at least twice a week for family reading time • Let them listen to Standard English programmes

Enc ncou ouraging raging You our r Chil hild d to R o Read ad • Use the 5-finger Rule to select books: – Open a book to a page in the middle and begin reading until the end of the page – For each word you do not know, put up one finger Too easy Just right Challenging Too difficult