English Language Sharing with Parents

Objectives of Session for Parents

▸To gain an overall understanding of the primary English curriculum ▸To gain an insight into the English learning experiences at Anderson Primary ▸To gain a better understanding of the strategies used in tackling a challenging section ▸To work in partnership to help our children enjoy learning English

English Curriculum – STELLAR Strategies for English Language Learning and Reading

Upper Primary Pedagogy

(Know, Want to Know, Learned)

Class Group Individual

SPEAKING &

REPRESENTING LISTENING &

VIEWING

WRITING READING GRAMMAR

VOCABULARY

RECEPTIVE

SKILLS

PRODUCTIVE

SKILLS

KNOWLEDGE

ABOUT

LANGUAGE

OUR ENGLISH CURRICULUM

What is Sustained Silent Reading (SSR)?

▸ A fixed period of time in which everyone

in the classroom including the teacher reads a book of his/her choice quietly and uninterrupted. (5 to 10mins)

▸ This strategy provides pupils with authentic opportunities to enjoy reading while practising their silent reading skills.

Inculcating the Joy of Learning

What is Sustained Silent Reading @ ANDPS?

OPENING READ & WRITE @ ANDPS

• Done in place of Sustained Silent

Reading at the start of the lesson

• Stories/books/videos are related to

STELLAR themes

What is OPENING READ & WRITE?

• Read aloud short stories or poems that

are inspiring to stimulate students’

interest (2 to 3 minutes)

• Students write continuously without

stopping (4 to 5 minutes)

OPENING READ & WRITE @ ANDPS

OPENING READ & WRITE @ ANDPS

OPENING READ & WRITE

Oracy Skills

Opportunities for Speaking & Listening

▸ Book sharing

▸ Group presentation

▸ Vocaroo

▸ Handphone

Confident Speakers

How you can support your children’s oral skill at home

▸Seize opportunities to have purposeful conversations with them; ask open-ended questions that make them think. ▸Offer different perspectives to them, that explain the rationale or purpose for certain acts or events.

Writing

Directing our own Learning

Success Criteria

Selection of the most important things that students

need to demonstrate to show they have achieved the

learning intentions of the lesson

Improve understanding

Empower pupils

Encourage independent learning

Enable accurate feedback

Directing our own Learning

My Success Criteria

▸I address the email to the right recipient

▸I state the purpose of my writing in the first paragraph

▸I recount the information in paragraphs

▸I highlight and label the six content points

▸I sum up the email with a closing sentence

▸I remember to sign off

▸I proof read my GPS before submission

Generation of ideas

▸Use of newspaper articles ▸Videos ▸Model compositions ▸Stories ▸Picture books

Use of newspaper articles

Tadpole’s promise

Continuous Writing

SHARING THEIR WRITING

Assessment

Formative & Summative Assessment

Formative

▸ to monitor

student learning

through

feedback given

by teachers

Summative

▸ to evaluate

student learning

at the end of an

instructional unit

How is my child assessed ?

P5 & P6 EL Semester Assessment Format

▸

Feedback from Teachers to Students ▸Reading Aloud

▸Well done on the pronunciation. I could hear the ending consonants sounds very clearly. Do take note of the 'Th' sounds, it can be better. Overall, I could tell it was a deliberate effort on your part. Moving forward, let's move from deliberate effort to being effortless. This comes with practice but you are off to a good start! So whenever you have pockets of free time, take a passage and read out loud, be comfortable hearing your voice as you read expressively.

Feedback from Teachers to Students Stimulus-based Conversation

- Good use of vocabulary for eg "paramount importance". Keep this up! - Overall organisation of ideas presented is coherent and clear. I particularly liked how you presented different perspectives for example in Q2- perspectives of children vs contrasting view of parents. You also made good use of connectors to link your ideas, so good job! - You gave ample and good ideas/perspective and examples which is important but because this is a practice where you are reading from your script, be prepared that examiners may just interrupt and ask you for reasons or to explain further. So you need to be ready for that. ▸

Directing our own Learning

Oral ▸Personal Reflection Peer Evaluation 2 Stars and 1 Wish

Tackling a Challenging Section

▸ Challenging section for most students ▸Students need to understand the text at both literal and inferential levels ▸At times, they may also be required to form an evaluative opinion and support their answers with evidence from the text ▸Questions can be 1 to 4 marks ▸Total of 20 marks for this component

How you can help your child at home:

▸ By reinforcing the skills taught in school.

▸ By providing a rich language environment at

home

▸ By monitoring your child’s reading habits to

ensure that your child is reading widely

▸ By engaging your child in meaningful talk