11 October 2012 English Language Education Section

Resource Package

• Nurturing Pupils’ Creative Thinking in the Upper Primary English Classroom

• PDP 2012-2013
• Developing Creativity in Pupils in the Upper Primary English Classroom (New)
• 26, 27 Oct 2012

Key Emphases of the English Language Curriculum

• Adopting a task-based approach
• Learning and teaching grammar in context
• Strengthening a ‘reading to learn’ culture
• Promoting assessment for learning
• Developing vocabulary-building strategies

• Reading Workshops

• Storytelling

• Reading Aloud

• Shared Reading

• Supported Reading

• Independent Reading

• Teacher Support

• Teaching Strategies for Reading

• English Language Curriculum Guide (Primary 1-6), p. A29

• KS1

• Construct meaning from texts

• KS2

• Guess the meaning of unknown words by using pictorial and contextual clues

• Identify key words for the main idea
• in a sentence

• Understand the information on the
• book cover and contents page

• Recognise the features
• of some common text types

• Progressive Development of Reading Skills from KS1 to KS2

• Work out the meaning of unknown words by using word association, visual clues, context & knowledge of the world

• Skim a text to obtain the main ideas

• Understand intention, attitudes and feelings conveyed in a text

• Understand the information provided on the book cover, index and glossary

• Recognise the features of a variety of text types