Secondary 1Comprehension

and Composition(Skillful 2)

Pre-School Primary University

• Develop your comprehension of challenging non-fiction texts

• Improve your composition in a range of MOE text types

• Widen your vocabulary and general knowledge

• Track your progress with regular assessment tasks

Secondary

Secondary 1

Text: ‘Food as Communication’

Students will develop these skills to improve their comprehension grades:

• How to make predictions about the text • How to read to understand the main idea • How to pick out specific information for comprehension questions • How to answer inference questions

Text type: Descriptive essay

Students will develop these skills to improve their composition grades:

• How to identify the features of this text type • How to structure compound sentences • How to use modal verbs • How to plan an essay using a chart

During this lesson, students will receive individual and group feedback on mistakes made in previous lessons and assignments. They will then be given the opportunity to redo tasks, rewrite parts of their written texts and make corrections based on teacher feedback.

They will also carry out supervised peer marking which helps improve their editing skills.

Lessons 1-2:Comprehension and Vocabulary

Lessons 3-4:Composition and Grammar

Lesson 5:Review and Reflection on Learning

Assessment task: Descriptive essay and editing End-of-term assessment task: Record of progressAssessment task: Comprehension and vocabulary

Sample course structure from Term 1 (each unit is covered over 5 lessons):

10 Lessons/ Term

• Nourishment• Community

• Reading to understand the main idea of the text

• Reading to pick out specific information

• Making predictions about the text

• Using contextual clues to answer questions

• Reading to understand the main idea of the text

• Using contextual clues to answer questions

• Putting details into the right sequence

• Distinguishing between cause and effect

• Reading to understand the main idea of the text

• Paraphrasing information• Making inferences from the

information given• Distinguishing between fact

and opinion

• Reading to understand the main idea of the text

• Reading to pick out specific information

• Categorising and classifying information

• Distinguishing between cause and effect

• Space• Success

• Pressure• Fear

• Water• Persuasion

• Descriptive essay • Descriptive essay• Personal recount

• Descriptive essay • Exposition

Term 1 Term 2 Term 3 Term 4

Unit Titles(2 Units/Term)

MOE Composition Text Types

MOE Comprehension Skills

Grammar and Vocabulary Students will learn and practise specific aspects of grammar that will help them to write the composition texts and better understand comprehension texts. Students will also learn sets of vocabulary within commonly used ‘O’ Level topics.

Assessment Book Students will be given an assessment book with MOE-aligned practices that are to be completed after each lesson. Each practice follows the same format as the ‘O’ Level English exam.

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