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Primary 5 and Primary 6:

Curriculum Sharing -

EnglishMs Charlotte Neo

Head of Department (English Language)

6 February 2021

Nurturing Future Learners, Future Citizens, Future Leaders

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Overview


•Learning Outcomes for Upper Primary

•Teaching and Learning Approach

•Supporting your child / ward in language mastery

The MPS English Curriculum

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Provide a rich learning environment to

develop effective and confident 21st century communicators

inspire the love for the English Language

Areas of Language Learning• Listening and Viewing

• Reading and Viewing

• Speaking and Representing

• Writing and Representing

• Vocabulary

• Grammar

Receptive Skills

Productive Skills

Knowledge about Language

Examples of Areas of Language Learning

•Close and critical reading of a variety of text types and genres

•Use a variety of skills and strategies to evaluate texts

•Monitor, review, revise and refine responsibly before, during and after speaking

•Write according to the Purpose, Audience, Context and Culture

Overview


• Learning Outcomes for Middle Primary

• Teaching and Learning Approach

• Supporting your child / ward in language mastery

Library

STELLAR language related

activities

Explicit classroom teaching and assessment

2 Key Terms Related to Assessment …

Formative: Assessment for

Learning

Summative: Assessment of

Learning

• Integral part of learning a concept, a topic or skill

• at the end of a semester / year

Primary 5 Assessment Plan: English

Language Skills

Term 1 Term 2 (15%)

Term 3 (15%)

Term 4 Semestral Assessment

(70%) Listening and

Viewing

Week 2: Tuesday Listening Comprehension

Picture Matching

Texts

Week 3:Tuesday Listening Comprehension

Picture Matching

Texts

Total : 200 marks Oral Exam (30 marks)

Reading Aloud (10 m)

Stimulus-based Conversation (20m)

Paper 1 (55 marks)

Situational Writing (15m)

Continuous Writing (40m) Listening Comprehension (20 marks)

Picture Matching

Texts (MCQ) Paper 2 (95 marks) Booklet A (28m)

Grammar / Vocabulary MCQ, Vocabulary Cloze, Visual Text Comprehension

Booklet B (67 m)

Grammar Cloze, Editing (spelling and grammar), Comprehension Cloze, Synthesis/Transformation, Comprehension OE

Reading and Viewing, Speaking and Representing

Week 4, Mon to Wed

Oracy Assessment

Reading Aloud

Stimulus-based Conversation

Writing and

Representing

Week 9: Tuesday

The Meridian Writer

Continuous Writing

Week 7: Tuesday

The Meridian Writer

Continuous Writing

Week 8: Tuesday

The Meridian Writer

Continuous Writing

Language Use and

Comprehension

Week 9: Monday (30 min) Review 1

Visual Text

Editing

Vocabulary Cloze


Grammar Cloze

Comprehension OE

Week 8: Monday (50 min) Review 3 (Weighted - 50 marks)

Grammar (10m)

Vocabulary (5m)

Editing (10m)

Comprehension Cloze (15m)

Synthesis and Transformation (10m)


Grammar MCQ (5m)

Vocabulary MCQ (5m)

Synthesis and Transformation (10m)

Comprehension OE (20m)

Primary 5 Assessment Plan: Foundation English

Language Skills

Term 1 Term 2 (15%)

Term 3 (15%)

Term 4 Semestral Assessment

(70%) Listening and

Viewing

Week 2: Tuesday Listening Comprehension

Picture Matching

Texts

Week 3:Tuesday Listening Comprehension

Picture Matching

Texts




Paper 1 (40 marks)



Picture Matching


Grammar / Vocabulary / Punctuation MCQ, , Visual Text Comprehension

Booklet B (40m)

Grammar Cloze, Editing (spelling and grammar), Comprehension Cloze, Synthesis/Transformation, Comprehension OE

Reading and Viewing, Speaking and Representing

Week 4, Mon to Wed

Oracy Assessment

Reading Aloud

Stimulus-based Conversation

Writing and

Representing

Week 9: Tuesday

The Meridian Writer

Continuous Writing

Week 7: Tuesday

The Meridian Writer

Continuous Writing

Week 8: Tuesday

The Meridian Writer

Continuous Writing

Language Use and

Comprehension


Grammar

Punctuation

Vocabulary

Visual Text Comprehension

Comprehension: Completion of Sentences

Comprehension Cloze


Grammar

Punctuation

Vocabulary

Visual Text Comprehension


Grammar (8m)

Punctuation (2 m)

Form Filling (5m)

Editing for Grammar (6m)

Editing for Spelling (6m)

Comprehension: Completion of Sentences (5m)

Synthesis (3m)



Grammar (8m)

Punctuation (2 m)

Form Filling (5m)

Editing for Grammar (6m)

Editing for Spelling (6m)

Comprehension: Completion of Sentences (5m)

Synthesis (3m)


Components of the English Paper: P5 SA2 P6 SA1 / Prelims / PSLE

Component Total

Marks

Percentage

Oral Communications 30 15%

Listening Comprehension 20 10%

Paper 1 (Writing) 55 27.5%

Paper 2 (Language Use) 95 47.5%

Grand Total 200 100%

Primary 6 (Standard English) Assessment Plan

Term 1 Common Test

Term 2 SA1

Term 3 Preliminary

Exam Week 8 Paper 2 (95 marks) Booklet A (28m)


Booklet B (67 m)

Grammar Cloze, Editing (spelling and grammar), Comprehension Cloze, Synthesis / Transformation, Comprehension




Paper 1 (55 marks)



Picture Matching



Booklet B (67 m)





Paper 1 (55 marks)



Picture Matching



Booklet B (67 m)


Primary 6 (Foundation English) Assessment Plan

Term 1 Common Test

Term 2 SA1

Term 3 Preliminary

Exam Week 8 Paper 2 (60 marks) Booklet A (20m)

Grammar / Vocabulary MCQ, Punctuation MCQ, Visual Text Comprehension

Booklet B (40 m)

Form Filling, Editing for Spelling, Editing for Grammar, Comprehension (Completion of Sentences), Synthesis, Comprehension Cloze, Comprehension (Passage A and B)




Paper 1 (40 marks)



Picture Matching



Booklet B (40 m)





Paper 1 (40 marks)



Picture Matching



Booklet B (40 m)


Overview


• Learning Outcomes for Middle Primary

• Teaching and Learning Approach

• Supporting your child / ward in language mastery

Areas of Language Learning

• Listening and Viewing

• Reading and Viewing

• Speaking and Representing

• Writing and Representing

• Vocabulary

• Grammar

Reading

Listening & Viewing

Writing & Rep.

Speaking & Rep.

ViewingGrammar

Vocabulary

Knowledge of the World

•To acquire language, the student needs to be engaged in language related activities. o Read widely o Read together o Model Reading

How?

•Make books an integral part of family life•Reading corners •An area where books are kept•Books must be easily available to the child•Visit the National Library / Community Library

•Model Reading •Read regularly with your child•Read together with your child – time / materials

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• National Library

• Newspaper

• Online plays, musicals, museum tours

• Write short notes to one another

• The world around us …

Other Resources and Activities

Do them together with your child / ward

some common errors …

• k, ok, okay

• you ownself do

• more faster

• very power

• very pain

• My mother brings me there.

• sure, yes

• do it yourself / myself

• faster

• very powerful

• very painful

• My mother took me there.

The home is a child’s first school,The parent is the child’s first teacher, and reading is a child’s first subject.

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