PRIMARY THREE ENGLISH LANGUAGE

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PRIMARY THREEENGLISH LANGUAGE
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OVERVIEW OF CURRICULUM

• Units are organised and taught according to
• these mega themes
• Term 1 Story Land (Units 2, 3, 4 6)
• Term 2 - Contact Time (Units 5,1 7)
• Term 3 - Twilight Zone (Units 11,12, 8 9)
• Unit 10 will be taught first before teachers
  embark on the theme
• Term 4 Unit 13 Unit 14 are taught separately
• Pupils will be asked to work on projects based on
  the
• different themes. The emphasis is on acquiring
  related
• skills rather than the final product.

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Speech and Drama cum Adapted Literature Programme
(1 hour conducted on alternate weeks during
curriculum time)

• Adapted Literature (based
• on the series Stories
• Around the World)
• Encourage pupils to form good reading habits
  
• Help pupils to acquire critical and analytical
  skills
• Inculcate character values through the themes
  explored in the stories

• Speech and Drama
• Build pupils confidence by developing pupils
  public speaking skills
• Promote pupils creativity through exploration
  and self-reflection

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Tests and Semestral Assessments
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Marks for Overall Grade
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Exam Paper
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Assessment

• Exam Components that are new to pupils
• Unseen Dictation (5 sentences)
• Synthesis (2 items)
• Grammar Cloze with no helping words
• (5 blanks)

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QUOTE FROM TOP PSLE STUDENT 2007 ABOUT READING
(taken from NLB magazine Hooked on Tales
Jan-Mar 2008 issue)

• Natasha Nabila Muhammad Nasir set a new
• PSLE RECORD in 2007 with an aggregate
• score of 294. She said that the secret of her
• success is reading and her parents are avid
• readers who helped to inculcate the habit of
• reading in her sister and her.