Madam Lau Kam Lung Secondary School of MFBM

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Madam Lau Kam Lung Secondary School of MFBM

• English Gifted Programme
• Developing the Languages, Thinking and Learning
  of the Gifted

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Background

• Our school is one of the Network Schools
• This is a 3-year programme for enhancing the four
  language skills including listening, speaking,
  reading and writing.
• Reading and writing would be the first foci in
  the year of 2004-2005 while the inclusion of the
  4 language skills and curriculum compacting
  elements would be the key concern in 2005-2007.

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Implementation Plan (2004-2005)

• Teachers who have received training on Gifted
  Education will form the Task Group (3Ts).
• Level One, Mode 1 will be adopted. Certain
  classes will be our target students. Strategies
  of enhancing students creativity and thinking
  skills in reading and writing will be carried out
  through the year.
• Level Two will be adopted. Students who are
  outstanding in English would be pulled out and
  programmes would be designed for them by the Task
  Group and the Gifted Education Section.

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Target students of the pullout programme
(2004-2005)

• Form Three
• Number of students involved 10 (maximum)
• Recruitment Period late November 2004 to mid
  February 2004

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• Recruitment Procedures

Late November 04 Open recruitment All form 3 students are welcome to join the programme. A notice will be distributed to each of the 5 classes.
Late November - December 04 Teachers recommendation When screening the interested participants, the Task Group will seek advice from their main English Teachers and other teachers concerned.
Mid February Students Mid-Year Examination Result (English Language) The exam result will be taken into consideration when screening students.
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Details of the pullout programme

• Implementation period From March 05 to May 05
• Format of the pullout programme workshops after
  school
• Number of the workshops 6
• Venue of the workshops one of the classrooms
• Duration of the workshops 1hr to 1 hr 30 mins
• Tutors of the workshops Members of the Task Group

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• Focus of the workshops
• Introduce students to different reading
  strategies through specific genres, like stories,
  news articles, comics, texts and so on.
• Reading materials chosen will be the ones of more
  challenging topics and demanding languages.
  Materials calling for higher order thinking
  skills and strategies will also be chosen.
• The teaching approaches are student centered and
  emphasise on collaboration and sharing.

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Schedule of the workshops
No. Date Content Tasks
1a 1b 3/3 17/3 Reading Strategies for Newspapers. Students will be able to Practise their skimming / scanning skills Master the strategies for reading newspaper Use the strategies to finish the tasks Identify different text types Identify different sections in a newspaper Deduce language features in headlines Identify different parts in the news report
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Schedule of the workshops (cont.)
No. Date Content Tasks
2a 7/4 How to read and write a letter to the editor Students will be able to practise their skimming and scanning skills differentiate letters to the editor from other news articles in a newspaper read and write letters to the editor Peer check their work Identify facts and opinions Compare a news article and a letter to the editor Identify the general types purposes of letters to the editor Identify the structure of a letter to the editor Write a letter to the editor Peer checking
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Schedule of the workshops (cont.)
No. Date Content Tasks
2b 28/4 Anticipating what they are going to read. Students will be able to learn to anticipate "the big ideas" that will be revealed and may provide an initial "hook" that draws them into the text. Brainstorm the criteria for choosing a book to read Practise the Anticipating Guides Compare their opinions after reading the book with the Anticipation Guides
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Schedule of the workshops (cont.)
No. Date Content Tasks
3a 5/5 Comics Students will be able to Spot out the special language features in comic strips Create comic strips or parts of the comic strips with given materials Give examples of comics they know Compare the language used in comics with the one used in other genres Identify different purposes of comics Infer the message of the comic writer Create speech bubbles a ending for a comic strip Create their own story using the given random frames
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Schedule of the workshops
No. Date Content Tasks
3b 26/5 Poetry Students will be able to Spot out the special language features in poems Create a diamante poem Discuss language features of a poem Read and understand a poem Understand the structure of a poem (diamante poem) Brainstorm some pairs of antonyms Create a diamante poem in the same structure using a pair of antonyms