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Reading

• Big Book Shared Reading
  • P.1: 4 books a year
  • P.2: 4 books a year
  • P.3: 2 books a year
• Readers:
  • P.1-6 :2 books a year
    (Home reader before long holiday)
  • P.3-4: 2 readers a year
    (a reader after each mid- term exam.)
• E-book sharing:
  • P.4-6: 2 books a year
• Story maps & responsive questions will be the new focus in teaching reading. and “Reading skills” & “Reading Workshop” booklets for
  students are adopted.
• Effective questioning skills is continued to apply in daily
  teaching and “Reading skills” booklets for students are
  adopted.
• Four different kinds of text type will be taught in details a year.
  Two lessons for one text type.
  • P.1:
    • Stories: book cover,
    • content page
    • Conversations,
    • Poems & rhymes
    • Cards
  • P.2:
    • Poems & rhymes
    • Tables & timetables
    • Diaries
    • Signs & rules
  • P.3:
    • Stories: book cover,
    • content page
    • Notes & messages
    • personal letters
    • Notices
    • Advertisements & posters
  • P.4:
    • E-mails & personal letters
    • Maps & directions
    • Questionnaires
    • Menu
  • P.5:
    • Play
    • Leaflet
    • Map & directions
    • Procedures & Recipes
  • P.6:
    • Advertisements & posters
    • Tables & charts
    • News report/Newspaper
    • Notices
• Effective questioning Skills are continued to be applied in daily
  teaching and “Reading skills” booklets for students are adopted.
• Daily Readers’ adopted on Tuesday morning reading time and
  at weekends.  Teachers will be assigned to teach DR in the
  less able classes.
• Promotion of two series of storybooks from school library 
  during lunchtime
• Online reading:
  Students are encouraged to join the online reading scheme
  conducted by CUHK.
  • students, who make no attempt in doing the online
    reading, will be asked to finish the online exercises
    during IT lessons.
• Time will be reserved for all P.1 and P.2 students
  to do online exercises during IT lessons.
• Vocab. project building conducted by HKEdcity  
  (For P.3-6)
• P.1-P.2 “English Fun Time” (consists of phonics skills
  teaching, language arts activities, storytelling, chant, tongue
  twister, on-line materials and different text types,):
  2 lessons a week
• Teachers apply phonics skills in daily teaching.

Writing

• One writing lesson is continued to allocate per week for
  teaching writing skills.
• Apply different writing skills in various text types such as
  extending a story, responding to a simple text with relevant
  information and ideas, writing a postcard, diary or letter.
• Parallel writing (P.1-P.2):
  • 8 writing tasks in a Parallel Writing Booklet per year
• P.3 monthly journal
• P.3-P.6:
  • Implement self  assessment (writing checklist) for
    developing a habit of reviewing of work.  A lesson for
    demonstrating how to use the list should be allocated in
    the scheme of work.
  • A clear marking scheme for marking will be marked
    on the writing tasks.
    • -TSA exercises:
      • Content (4 marks)& language (3 marks)
    • -P.5 Pre-S 1:
      
      • Content (4 marks)& language (3 marks)
    • -P.6 Pre-S 1:
      • Content (11 marks);
      • Organization ( 6 marks)
      • language (13 marks)
• Dictionary skills will be introduced to P.3 –P.6 students.
  • Teachers are encouraged to ask students to check
    the meaning of some assigned vocabulary before lessons.
  • A competition of looking up the dictionary will be held
    in P.4-P.6.

Speaking

• Conducting speaking activities for each unit in pair work or
  group work for consolidation.

• For P.1-P.6, 16 kinds of classroom language will be introduced
  weekly.

• “Catch Phases” will be introduced in P.1-P.3

• For P.1-6, 22 sets of oral language will be introduced weekly
  for the ‘Ambassador Scheme’ activity.  A name list will be
  posted on the notice board for recording students’ participation.

• Presentation skills and peer observation assessment will be
  conducted in P.5 & 6.
• Language arts activity:
  • Readers’ Theatre will be continued in P.4-5 once a
    year in the post-exam week.
  • P.4 teachers & students will join “Drama-in- Education
    English Alliance” organized by SCOLAR.
• NET and ELTA will chat with students in the first recess. 
  ELTA will chat with junior students in the playground while
  NET will chat with senior students at the roof.

NET Scheme

• Main stream teaching:

  • The NET will be responsible for devising activities and
    teaching in the lessons collaboratively with P.3 and
    P.4 teachers.
  • NET will support the development of P.2 phonics
    curriculum and co-teach in a P.2 class.
• Writing lessons on Friday afternoons for P.5 & P.6.
• Three consecutive seminars for P.1 parents together with
  their children will be held.
•  Extra-curricular activities:
  • English assembly broadcasting four times a year
  • P.1 & P.2 Lunchtime reading
  • One activity class (storytelling) for P.3 students on
    Friday co-curricular activity lesson.
  • NET will chat with students in the first recess.
    NET will chat with senior students at the roof.
• Professional development:
  • One workshop for teachers on writing skills
  • Offer assistance in coaching students for the
    “Speech Festival”
  • Introduce idioms for posting in the staff room
  • Exam paper checking

ELTA scheme

• Main stream teaching:
  ELTA will be responsible for devising activities and
  teaching in the lessons collaboratively with primary one
  and two teachers.

• One activity class (storytelling) for P.2 students on
  Friday co-curricular activity lesson.

• ELTA will chat with students in the first recess.  ELTA
  will chat with junior students in the playground.

Intervention and enrichment programmes

• Intervention programmes:
  Remedial sessions are to be held during school time.

• Extra training in reading for P.3-6 students on Friday afternoon.

• Enrichment programmes

  • Interactive English classes for P.1
  • Cambridge English classes (劍橋英語班)run by
    external organizations are to be offered for the more
    able students in primary two to six at school.
  • London Test classes for P.6 elite students
  • An “Interview Skills” class is to be held in December
    for P6 students.
  • Outstanding students will be trained for the solo verse
    speaking competition.

English Week:

“Children Literature”

25-29 January, 2010

• P.1: Three Little Pigs
• P.2: Peter Pan
• P.3: Goldilocks and the three bears
• P.4: Three Billy Goats Gruff
• P.5: Jack & the Beanstalk
• P.6: Angry Gods

P.1- P.3

• 4 lessons: Teach the story and finish a story map
• 2 lessons: practice

P.4-P.6

• 2 lessons: Teach the story and finish a story map
• 2 lessons: Rewrite the ending.
• 4 lessons: Practice (except P.4)
• 1-2 lessons: class competition

Language arts activities will be conducted in classes in English Week

• P.1 - 3: Tongue twisters    
• P.4: Drama will be conducted on 7th May,09
• P.5: Readers’ Theatre (5ABC perform the original script;
  5DE perform the new ending)
•  P.6: Readers’ Theatre (6ABC perform the original script;
  6DE perform the new ending)

Build up a language-rich environment

• Classroom terms are to be displayed to facilitate the use of
  English during lessons.
• Classroom objects are to be labeled in order to help students
  build up their vocabulary from the environment.
• English name cards of the objects in the school environment
  and signs are displayed.

Professional Development

• One workshop for teachers on teaching phonics skills and
  using story maps, wh-questions and mind-mapping for
  getting main ideas with the NET’s support.
• Curriculum development meeting:
  • A sharing seminar will be held after
    collaborative teaching in the same level.

Life-wide learning

(全方位學習)

• P.3, P.4 ,P.5 & P.6  writing training.
• P.3 & P.6 Speaking training.
• P.3 & P.6 Reading and Writing training.
• “Happy hours” with different language activities will be
  provided for P.2 students in the P.2 classrooms.