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Primary 5 Parents’ Briefing 30 30 Ja Janu nuar ary y 20 2015 15 Eng nglish lish De Depa partm tment ent

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

Agenda

Pap Paper r / Compo ponent Content nt (marks rks)

Paper r 1 / Wri riting ting (27.5%)

• Situational Writing (15m)
• Continuous Writing (40m)

Paper 3 / Listenin ning g Compr prehe ehension nsion (10%)

• Various text types –MCQ(20m)

Paper 4 / Oral (15%)

• Reading aloud (10m)
• Stimulus-based Conversation

(20m)

EL Assessment Structure

Pap Paper r / Compo ponent nt Content nt

Paper r 2 / Lang nguag uage e Use and Compr prehe ehension nsion (47.5%) Bo Bookl klet t A (28m)

• Grammar MCQ
• 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

EL Assessment Structure

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! READ it! SPEAK it! WRITE in it! Inp nput Ou Output put

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

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• 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