ENGLISH LANGUAGEPRIMARY 5 2020

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Primary 5 CurriculumTerm STELLAR

Units

Written Work Supplementary Reading

Others

1 3

• MC Booklets• Listening &

Oral Book• Supplementary /

Component

Worksheets• Continuous

and Situational Writing

• Exam Practice Papers

• ScheduledSpelling

• Term 1 - Topical Review (0%)

• Term 2 – Mastery Review (Writing) (15%)

• No SA1• Term 3-Paper 2

(15%)• SA2 (Term 4)

(70%)

• Stellar Readers• Myon Online

Reading Portal• Little Red Dot

2 3

3 3

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EL materials used at P5

Inhouse (School-based)

• Situational Writing Getting It Right!

• Writing To Wow!

• P5 Oral Preparatory Kit

• Component Worksheets / Supplementary Worksheets

• Practice Papers

All P5 Writing and Oral Resources should be kept for P6 revision as well.

Purchased

• Grammar & Vocabulary Exercises (1)

• Marshall Cavendish Stellar Companion Booklets (3)

• Oral and Listening Comprehension Booklet

• Stellar Readers

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Paper 1 Situational Writing

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• Write a short functional piece to suit the purpose, audience and context of a given situation.

Task Fulfilment 6 marks

Language & Organisation 9 marks

P5 Situational Writing

Focus is on :

a) Informal Email

b) Informal Letter

c) Formal Email

d) Formal Letter

Paper 1 Continuous Writing

• A given theme

• at least 150 words

• based on one or more of the pictures

3 pictures will be provided, related to the theme, offering different angles of interpretation.

Content 20 marks

Language 20 marks

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Marking Guidelines (Compo)Pictures used (1/2/3)

Theme (Topic) Total / 40 Remarks Content / 20

NO NO butwrites the reverse (irresponsibility)

19 / 40 maximum

Content –Largely irrelevant (1 to 4 marks)

YES YES butwrites the reverse

Depends on Language

Content –(9 to 11 marks)

NO YES Depends on Language

Content –(5 to 8 marks)

YES NO Depends on Language

Content –(5 to 8 marks)

Paper 2 Booklet A

• Grammar MCQ

• Vocabulary MCQ

• Vocabulary-in-Context MCQ

• Visual Text Comprehension

- Tricky options

- Content heavy

Paper 2 Booklet B

• Comprehension Cloze (15 marks)

- completed with understanding and look for contextual clues

- Any error in grammar / spelling (0m)

• Synthesis & Transformation (10 marks)

- Any error in grammar (0m)

- Any error in spelling and punctuation (1m)

Comprehension Open-EndedStrategies used:

• Read the passage at least twice. The story is longer and more complex compared to P4.

• Ask probing questions using the Techniques of’ Why, Who, When, Where, Which, How’. Identify main ideas in each paragraph. Annotate.

• Highlight words that they are unfamiliar. Discuss its meaning and how it is used in a sentence / scenario.

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ComprehensionStrategies used:

• Discuss the story to test for understanding, before attempting the questions.

• Check for spelling, grammar, punctuation and sentence structure. Answer according to the question asked.

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ComprehensionDO NOT

• ‘lift’ the answer from the passage.

• start the answer using ‘It is because’, ‘This is because’, ‘so that’ , ‘so as to’, ‘as if’ ….

• answer by writing ‘The passage says that…’,

‘It is written in the passage that …’

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Admin MattersBe in sync with the teachers:

• Homework monitoring

• Checking on quality of work and corrections periodically

• Checking on your son’s diary

• Checking Class Dojo messages

• Acknowledging that you have seen your son’s work (e.g. spelling)

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THANK YOU

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