Items |
Content |
Reading |
- Big Book Shared Reading
- P.1: 4 books a year
- P.2: 4 books a year
- P.3: 2 books a year
- Supported Reading: (KWL approach)
- P.3, 4: 2 readers per year (one after each mid-term exam)
- P.5, 6: 1 reader a year after second term mid-term exam
- Home Reading:
- .1-6 :2 readers per year (before each long holiday)
- Storytelling & Reading Aloud
- 1 reader for P.1 Happy Reading Hours with language
arts activities in Life-Wide Learning.
- E-book storytelling: P.4-6:
- 2 books a year with creative writing tasks and language
arts activities
- Incorporating different learning-to-read strategies and
higher-order thinking questions in lessons and
‘Reading Skills Worksheet’ and ‘Reading
Workshop Booklet’. Examples are:
- Answer questions in complete sentences
- Story maps
- 6-wh questions for reading comprehension
- Dictionary skills
- Sequence events
- Definition of a word or phrase
- Main idea of a paragraph or passage
- Scanning & skimming
- Making inferences
- Different text type features
- Personal response after reading a text
- Four different kinds of text type will be taught in detail
per year. Two lessons for teaching 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, contents page
- Notes &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
- Magazines and contents page
- Notices
- Silent Reading Session:
Students read published reading materials ‘Daily Readers’ on
Tuesday morning reading time and at weekends. Teachers
will be assigned to assist less-able students in different classes.
- Independent Reading:
Students read ‘Daily Readers’ at weekends.
- Reading Award Scheme:
Extra awards will be given to students if they borrow
specific English books from the school library.
“書is a Book” is a reading programme to encourage
students to read more English books.
- Online reading:
Students are encouraged to join the online reading
scheme conducted by CUHK.
P.3 – P.6 students
who make no attempt in doing the online reading
will be asked to finish the online exercises during
IT lessons.
- Online reading:
Students are encouraged to join the online reading
scheme conducted by "My Smart ABC".
- P.1-P.2 “English Fun Time”
consists of phonics skills teaching, big books shared
reading, short stories, online materials, and different
language arts activities such as chants, tongue twister,
songs, poems and sight words. (Co-teach with ELTA)
- Teachers apply phonics skills in daily teaching:
Core members prepare Powerpoints for using phonics
skills to teach some key words from the textbook.
- In P.3-4 NET lessons, 5-minute phonics teaching
will be a routine in every lesson. Revision of letter
sound taught in P.1, 2, introduction of new letter
sounds, phonics quizzes, blending games and sight words
will be adopted.
- P.3 –P.6: Dictionary skills will be introduced.
A competition in looking up the dictionary will
be held in P.4-P.6.
- Teachers are encouraged to ask students
to look up the meaning of some assigned
vocabulary before lessons.
- Training students’ dictionary skills will be
held three times in September, November and April.
PowerPoint slides will be prepared by core members.
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Writing |
- P.1-6: The school-based writing curriculum
‘Little Writers’ is designed to help students
learn different writing skills to do writing tasks.
- P.1-2:
12 writing tasks a year with simple sentence
structures such as I am …/I have…/ He is …
/ He has….
- P.3-4:
Around 20 writing tasks a year with
basic sentence structures such as
“Subject + Verb + Object + extra information”
- P.5-6:
Around 24 writing tasks with different
writing skills and sentence structures a year.
The recommended strategies are:
- Effective questioning skills:
Colour and five senses for
enhanced creativity
- Brainstorming
- Mind mapping
- Select 6-wh questions for
writing about a picture
- Use of guided questions
- Shared Writing (whole class)
- Proof-reading by using a writing
checklist and proof-read others’
writing
- 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.
- P.1-6 task-based learning will be adopted.
The tasks are chosen from the textbooks.
- One writing lesson is allocated per week
for teaching different writing skills.
- Parallel writing (P.1-P.2):
4-8 writing tasks
per year
- P.3-P.6 Implement self-assessment after
writing:
Students use a writing checklist to
develop a habit of reviewing work.
A lesson for demonstrating how to use
the list should be allocated in the scheme
of work.The writing checklist should be modified.
- A clear marking scheme for marking will be
shown on the writing tasks.
(For details refer to English Handbook.)
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Speaking |
-
Conducting speaking
activities for some units
in
pair work or group work
for consolidation.
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For P.1-P.6, 16 kinds of classroom language
will be introduced
in a timely way.
- “Catch Phases” will be introduced in P.1-P.3
- For P.1-6, English Speaking Day will be held
weekly
- English panel chairs, core members and NET
will design broadcasting programmes on
Tuesday mornings.
- A name list will be posted on the notice board
to record students’ participation.
- Students are encouraged to recite the sentences
- Teachers will give announcements in English
during Morning Assembly.
- English playground Instructions will be
adopted at recess.
- Presentation skills and peer observation
assessment will be conducted in P.5 & 6.
- P.5: Students can speak for one
minute in a presentation
- P.6: Students can speak for
two minutes in a presentation
- Language arts activity:
- P.1-2: Songs and rhymes, short
stories, poems, story scripts
and tongue twisters
- P.2: Show & Tell, puppet shows
- P.3: tongue twisters
- P.4: drama
- drama lessons will be
conducted in NET lessons
and in English week.
- All P.4 classes will have an
in-class competition and
drama performance on the
stage by the end of the term.
- P.5-6: Readers’ Theatre will be
taught once a year in the post-exam week.
- Talking Table’:
- Sunny days: ELTA, NET and English Agents
(selected from English Ambassadors) will
chat with students in the first and third recesses.
They will chat with the assigned classes in
the covered playground or on the roof in
the first recess. NET and two English Agents
will chat with students (all levels) in the covered
playground in the third recess.
- Rainy days: They will chat with the assigned
classes at specific places (such as the area
near the front or middle stairs)
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NET Scheme |
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ELTA scheme |
- Mainstream teaching:
ELTA will be responsible for devising
activities and teaching lessons
collaboratively with primary one
and two teachers.
- One activity class (storytelling) for P.2
students on Friday co-curricular activity
lesson.
- ‘Talking Table’: ELTA will chat with
students in the first recess in the playground.
- An after-school activity for training English
Ambassadors (drama activities and
activities related to ‘Talking Table’)
- P.2 lunchtime speaking activity:
’Show & Tell’ & puppet show
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Intervention and enrichment programmes
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Build up a language-rich environment |
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Offer a print-rich environment:
- Classroom terms are to be displayed
to facilitate the use of English during lessons.
- Classroom objects are to be labelled in
order to help students build up their
vocabulary from the environment.
- Recess instructions are displayed on
each floor.
- Display students’ work & other
English language text in classrooms
- Recess instructions will be used in English
on English Speaking Days.
- Conduct regular English Speaking Day on
Tuesdays.
- 'English Passport' is provided to students:
Classroom language terms, tongue twisters,
personal questions are included
- 'Talking Table':
- Sunny days: ELTA, NET and English
Agents (selected from English Ambassadors)
will chat with students in the first and third
recesses. They will chat with the assigned
classes in the covered playground or on the
roof in the first recess. NET and two
English Agents will chat with students
(all levels) in the covered playground in
the third recess.
- Rainy days: They will chat with the assigned
classes at a specific place (such as the
area near the front or middle stairs),
- Conduct yearly English Week:
English Transformers' (From reading to
speaking)
Date: 27 Feb to 2 Mar 2012
Content:
- Story Time’: A classic story and story map for
each level. (3 lessons)
- P.1: Three Little Pigs
- P.2: Peter Pan
- P.3: Goldilocks and the three bears
- P.4: Ugly Ducklings (Drama)
- P.5: Jack & the Beanstalk
- P.6: Angry Gods
- ‘Creative Writer’: Extended writing tasks from
reading (P.4-6) (1-2 lessons)
- ‘Language Arts Party Time’:
Language arts activities will be conducted in the
classrooms (1-2 lessons)
- P.1 - 3: Songs, role-play, tongue twisters
(the content will be introduced in the
morning assembly on 4/10, 11/10, 18/10
and printed in the English Passport’
- P.4: Drama training
- P.5: Readers’ Theatre (in-class competition on 4/11)
- P.6: Readers’ Theatre (in-class competition on 4/11)
- Live broadcasts during the morning assembly
- ‘Show Time’: Language arts activities
performance
i) Songs and tongue twisters performed by
students
Date and levels:
- 2/11(Wed): P.1 & P.3
- 3/11(Thu): P.2 & P.4
- Time: 2:40-3:15 p.m. (Tutorial lesson)
(Filming arrangement is required.)
- ‘Morning video broadcast’: A video play
will be produced by NET and ELTA
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Professional Development |
- Workshops for teachers with the EDB’s support.
- on 'Vocabulary Building Skills'
- 2-4 p.m. on 29/8/2011
- Curriculum development meeting:
- A sharing seminar will be held after
collaborative teaching in the same level.
- Introducing Web 2.0 resources to teachers
(12 October, 2011)
- Integrating phonics activities in teaching
(22 February, 2012)
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| Self –access learning |
Notebook
- Students are required to have a notebook for
self-access learning.
- Content:
- Making notes of pre-lesson preparation
- Writing a summary of a lesson
- Building vocabulary
- Jotting notes during lessons
- Keeping oral practice worksheet, writing
marking scheme and writing checklist |
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.
- School-based P.1 ‘Happy Reading Hours’
Programme with the use of Oxford Reading
Tree storybooks and reading activities will be
developed on Friday (Life-Wide Learning).
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