HKFYG

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HKFYG Lee Shau Kee Primary School
P.6 School-based Curriculum
How to develop students reading and writing
skills?
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Textbook New Welcome to English Unit 4
Presents Unit 7 Helping the police
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Rationale Similar topics modular
approach Unit 4 Fun Reading (The emperors
teapot) Unit 7 Helping the police (Crimewatch)
Focus Reading and Writing
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Background of the students

• weak in grammar
• limited vocabulary
• poor reading skills
• (unable to read independently)
• poor writing skills
• (unable to manage simple sentence
• structures)

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Strategies used
1. Shared reading in class
a. Show topic b. Show pictures and key words c.
Brainstorm with the class d. Make predictions e.
Ask open-ended questions f. Divide the whole
passage into small pieces (slow the pace of
reading) (Shared reading approach was used)
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How to
put it into practice?
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a. Show the topic
Maggies mistake
Where is she going?
b. Show pictures and words
Tying her shoelace

1. What are they going to do?
2. What is Kiki doing?
3. Will she go and play badminton?

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Reading The Emperors teapot
Mr Leung
What was it?
Who were they?

• Where were they?
• Why was Mr Leung so scared?

c. Brainstorming questions(1)
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Amy
c. Brainstorming Questions(2)
What was it?

• Who gave Amy the teapot?
• Who wrote the note? What was it about?
• If you were Amy, what would you do?

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d. Allow easy predictions
- ask some easy questions after reading a short
paragraph - let students guess the development
of the story
Vs

• students will not predict once they open
• their textbooks

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Maggies mistake
Where is she going?
d. Allow easy predictions

1. What are they going to do?
2. What is Kiki doing?
3. Will she go and play badminton?

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Amy
e. Ask open-ended questions
What was it?

• Who gave Amy the teapot?
• Who wrote the note? What was it about?
• If you were Amy, what would you do?

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Strategies used
2. Support reading by picture clues(worksheet)
-divide the whole passage into small
pieces -Provide picture clues (for comprehension
worksheet)
Last month some thieves stole a valuable teapot
from a museum in Hong Kong. They took the teapot
to America but the American police found it. The
museum sent Mr Leung to America to collect the
teapot. On the plane back to Hong Kong he noticed
two men. They were watching him closely. Perhaps
theyre going to steal the teapot again. I must
think of a plan, he thought.
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Strategies used
3. Design of the worksheets
a. Be consistent b. Include various types of
questions c. Cover different reading skills d.
Extract useful words from the story e. Include
sentence making f. Write simple ending for the
story g. Write a simple story with picture clues
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a. Be consistent
Qs in class Qs in worksheets
More practice in class help to answer open-ended
Qs in worksheet
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b. Include various types of Qs

• Types of questions
• Wh- questions
• Yes/ No questions
• Open-ended questions

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c. Cover different reading skills

• Skills
• Referencing skills
• e.g. Im going to buy him one. What does one
  mean?
• 2. Expressing ideas
• e.g. What do you think of Mary?
• Do you think Mary is clever? Why?

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d. Extract useful words from the story
Why???
- prepare for story-writing

• Examples
• thought
• whisper
• said
• shouted

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e. Include sentence making
Why???
- prepare for story-writing
Example
Maggie watched Kiki all afternoon. Kiki looks
like a thief. She talks like a thief and she
walks like a thief. Im sure she stole my watch,
thought Maggie.
Guided Writing. 1a. ______________looks like
______________________. 1b. ______________talks
like ______________________.
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f. Write simple ending for the story
Example (1)
After Maggie had found her watch, she felt very
sorry. So she decided to write Kiki a letter to
say sorry. Complete the letter with the help of
the given words.
forgive trust sorry wrong make a
mistake
Dear _________________, This morning I found my
watch in my school bag. I ______________________.
I have to say ____________. I should
________________________________. I hope
____________________________________________.
Yours faithfully,
_______________________
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Example (2)
unfriendly get angry impatient make friends
share things
Use the following words to write a short story.
Very difficult exercise for students!
Mary is __________________________________________
___________ _____________________________________
____________________________________ ____________
__________________________________________________
___________ _____________________________________
____________________________________ ____________
__________________________________________________
___________
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g. Write a simple story with picture clues
Strategies used
End product!!

• Supports
• Provide picture clues
• Provide guided questions
• Brainstorming in class (ideas)
• Vocabulary provided by teacher

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Example
Superman
Write the story. Use the guided questions to
help you.
What is the name of Superman? What does he do?
Where does he work?
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Where was Superman? What did he see? What were
the thieves going to do?
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Where was Superman? What did he do?
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What did Superman do? What were the thieves going
to do?
Draw and write the ending of the story.
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Thank you!