Primary 3

Content and Language Proficiency

Students will acquire fundamental grammar rules and thematic vocabulary to establish a robust language foundation. This includes topics such as

• Tenses

• Subject-verb agreement

• Synthesis and transformation

Skills and Techniques

Students enhance their proficiency in the following essential areas:

Speaking

• Cultivate the ability to express personal opinions and gain self-assurance in public speaking.

Reading and Writing

• Extensive reading of diverse passages, spanning from expository texts to personal recounts.

• Understanding the structure of compelling storytelling, along with the acquisition of various writing techniques, including basic character development and the use of descriptive elements, such as slow-motion narration.

• Generating story concepts tied to the topic or prompted by provided images.

• Employing diverse sentence structures to enrich the quality of their writing.

Contextualized Learning

Students will be exposed to a diverse range of themes aimed at enabling them to connect their learning to real-world situations and enhance their awareness of society.

Listening and Viewing

Listening and Viewing with a Critical Perspective 

• Foster a positive attitude by engaging in sustained, attentive listening and viewing, coupled with empathy and respect, and responding appropriately across a variety of communicative situations and interactions.

• Enhance the ability to perceive and recognize sounds and words within their context by developing phonological awareness and identifying key words, prosodic elements, and non-fluency features in spoken language.

• Cultivate the skill of perceiving and recognizing sounds and words within their context by focusing on phonological awareness and the identification of key words, prosodic elements, and non-fluency features in spoken language.

• Engage in critical listening and viewing by establishing connections between different segments of the text.

• Engage in listening, viewing, and responding to texts across diverse contexts and for various purposes, with the goals of enjoyment and comprehension.

Reading and Speaking

Reading and Viewing Widely, Extensively and Critically for Different Purpose.

A robust knowledge base is the foundation for effective speaking and representing. The ability to speak and represent confidently and effectively is essential for various purposes, audiences, contexts, and cultures. This proficiency can be applied both individually and in collaboration with others.

• Foster initial reading and viewing skills to attain precision and fluency by building word recognition and cultivating a positive attitude. Progress in reading and viewing closely at both literal and inferential levels by leveraging prior knowledge, contextual hints, and comprehensive skills and strategies.

• Critically evaluate and acknowledge implied meanings in a wide array of texts by employing analytical skills, exercising judgment, and employing metacognitive strategies. Connect various elements within texts to integrate meaning and show an understanding of how a writer's style can impact the intended message.

• Engage with a diverse and expansive assortment of high-interest, age-appropriate texts, encompassing various forms such as multimodal and hybrid texts, for multiple purposes. This engagement allows for the exploration of the influence of different semiotic modes on the text and its meaning, the application of acquired skills to other aspects of language learning and different subject areas, and, most importantly, for sheer enjoyment.

• Cultivate an understanding of the fundamental characteristics of spoken language and recognize its multifaceted purposes. Work towards achieving fluency and precision in pronunciation, incorporating suitable prosodic elements.

• Plan and establish objectives. Explore, collect, and formulate ideas from a range of texts that integrate linguistic and other semiotic modes. Speak and represent with self-assuredness, coherence, and cohesion, utilizing diverse semiotic modes appropriately to achieve various objectives.

• Place a growing emphasis on generating texts with the goals of recounting, entertaining, instructing, and responding. Regularly assess both your own speech and that of others to rectify mispronunciations and refine the appropriate usage of prosodic features.

Writing and Representing

Mastering the Fundamentals of Writing. Engaging in Creative and Critical Writing and Representation for Diverse Objectives, Audiences, Environments, and Cultural Contexts, whether done individually or in collaboration.

• Write with clarity, legibility, and fluidity. Employ spelling skills and learner strategies accurately when composing text, especially for frequently misspelled words and multisyllabic terms.

• Utilize a range of skills for idea generation, selection, organization, development, expression, and revision to effectively address the writer's purpose, meet the needs of the audience, and adapt to the context and culture in writing and representing. Also, place a growing emphasis on the incorporation of semiotic modes in text creation.

• Produce a diverse range of texts tailored to various objectives, employing suitable tones and registers. Recognize how the skills and knowledge involved in writing and representing particular text types can serve as a basis and be applied to produce more advanced texts of varying types and forms.

• Compose and represent text with a conscious understanding of the suitable organizational structures and language features for various objectives.

Grammar and Vocabulary

Use of Terms. Grammar at Word, Phrase, Sentence and Text Levels

• Employ metalanguage to discuss the mechanics of language, both at the text level and while editing and making self-corrections.

• Utilize grammatical knowledge at the levels of words, phrases, and sentences to effectively communicate ideas in a precise manner across various social contexts. Recognize that altering the structure of language constructions imparts distinct meanings in different settings.

• Emphasize the acquisition of words through experiential and enjoyable learning. Expand your vocabulary knowledge and actively participate in the process of learning new vocabulary terms.

• Cultivate an extensive vocabulary by studying the formation of words, their interrelationships, and their usage within various contexts.

• Employ diverse learner strategies to enrich your vocabulary. Recognize, value, and employ words for literary impact with purpose. Accurately and appropriately utilize fixed expressions. Select words that align with the intended purpose, audience, context, and cultural setting. Combine words meaningfully in coordination with semiotic modes.

• Leverage cohesive devices and grammatical structures to establish connections between various clauses, sentences, and paragraphs. Recognize and apply comprehension of language features in various text types during speaking, writing, and representing. Understand how the deliberate use of language influences the meaning conveyed in texts.

• Enhance and reinforce vocabulary knowledge while actively participating in the process of acquiring new vocabulary items.