HKFYG
Lee Shau Kee Primary School
P.6 School-based Curriculum
How to develop
students’ reading and writing skills?
Textbook:
New Welcome to English
Unit 4: Presents
Unit 7: Helping the police
Rationale:
Similar topics + modular
approach
Unit 4: Fun Reading
(The emperor’s teapot)
Unit 7: Helping the police
(Crimewatch)
Focus: Reading and Writing
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)
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)
How to
put it into practice?
a. Show the topic
Maggie’s 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?
Reading: The Emperor’s teapot
Mr Leung
What was it?
Who were they?
• Where were they?
• Why was Mr Leung so scared?
c. Brainstorming questions(1)
Amy
What was it?
c. Brainstorming
Questions(2)
• Who gave Amy the teapot?
• Who wrote the note? What was it about?
• If you were Amy, what would you do?
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
their textbooks
predict once they open
Maggie’s 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?
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?
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 they’re going to steal the
teapot again. I must think of a plan,” he thought.
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
a. Be consistent
Qs in class = Qs in worksheets
More practice in class help to
answer open-ended Qs in worksheet
b. Include various types of Qs
Types of questions:
a. Wh- questions
b. Yes/ No questions
c. Open-ended questions
c. Cover different reading skills
Skills:
1. Referencing skills
e.g. “I’m 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?
d. Extract useful words from the story
Why???
- prepare for story-writing
Examples :
a. thought
b. whisper
c. said
d. shouted
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. I’m sure she stole my watch,” thought Maggie.
Guided Writing.
1a. ______________looks like ______________________.
1b. ______________talks like ______________________.
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,
_______________________
Example (2):
unfriendly
get angry
make friends
impatient
share things
Use the following words to write a short story.
Mary is _____________________________________________________
_________________________________________________________________________
Very difficult
_________________________________________________________________________
exercise for students!
_________________________________________________________________________
_________________________________________________________________________
g. Write a simple story with picture
Strategies
used:
clues
End product!!
Supports:
a. Provide picture clues
b. Provide guided questions
c. Brainstorming in class (ideas)
d. Vocabulary provided by teacher
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?
Where was Superman?
What did he see?
What were the thieves going to do?
Where was Superman?
What did he do?
What did Superman do?
What were the thieves going to do?
Draw and write the ending of the story.
Thank you!