Primary 5

Content and Language Proficiency

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

• Sensorial verbs

• Transformation of words in sentences

• Direct to reported speech

Skills and Techniques

Students enhance their proficiency in the following essential areas:

Speaking

• Students will strengthen their communication abilities, focusing on how to effectively connect with the audience and present their arguments convincingly and coherently.

Reading and Writing

• Craft captivating stories with well-defined structures and thoughtful use of writing techniques.

• Plan stories in a sequential and logical manner while identifying any logical gaps.

• Generate story ideas that are closely tied to the theme and visuals.

• Enhance their proficiency in writing techniques such as flashback, foreshadowing, twists, and hooks.

• Receive training in situational writing and develop the ability to compose various text types, including emails, letters, and reports.

• 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.

• Listen and view critically by assessing various semiotic features in texts, evaluating the credibility of sources and the relevance of information, and applying comprehension monitoring strategies during the listening and viewing process.

• Leverage knowledge acquired from listening to, viewing, and responding to texts, serving various objectives (including arguments and discussions), in a range of contexts for both enjoyment and comprehension, and apply this knowledge to other aspects of language learning.

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.

• Develop a more profound understanding of the characteristics of spoken language, including variations in register based on the context. Identify the customary norms of speech and the roles of speakers within diverse situations.

• Establish plans and objectives. Collect, choose, and assess information. Cultivate and structure concepts from a range of texts that combine linguistic and other semiotic modes. Engage in considerate discussions to formulate, express, and represent ideas in real-time, responding to the audience(s).

• Place growing emphasis on generating texts that serve various purposes, including recounting, entertaining, instructing, describing, informing, responding, and evaluating. Also, fine-tune planned speech, actively monitor and revise speech to adapt and enhance communication according to the intended goals and the feedback of the listener, both immediately and upon reflection.

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.

• Utilize an understanding of appropriate organizational structures and language features to craft a range of progressively sophisticated texts tailored to various purposes.

• Devote more attention to the creation of texts that involve responding, arguing, evaluating, and persuading.

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.