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ENGLISH LANGUAGEPRIMARY 5 2020
CLASSROOM
ST. JOSEPH’S INSTITUTION JUNIOR
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)
• Checking with teachers to seek clarificationST. JOSEPH’S INSTITUTION JUNIOR
THANK YOU
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