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本科目標及課程特色

本科目標

1. Promote values education and foster students' humanistic literacy.

2. Use e-learning to strengthen interactive learning, improve classroom participation and feedback and further learning outcomes.

校本課程特色

1.Literature Curriculum

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  • Reading and writing based
  • Tailored to the themes of the textbooks for each grade level
  • Differentiated for different levels to cater for learner diversity
  • Student-based booklets allowing for whole class and independent learning
  • Involving the use of engaging texts to stimulate student interest
  • Catering for different learning styles
  • Allowing for many opportunities for discussion, questioning and speaking

2.Reciprocal Reading and Phonics Curriculum for Key Stage 1
(i)    Reciprocal Reading Strategies
-    Big book based curriculum 

  • Reading ‘to, with and by’ students
  • Reciprocal Reading main strategies used to discover texts and stimulate learning: 
    Questioning; Predicting; Summarizing; Clarifying 
  • Discussion and question based
  • Provision of many opportunities for speaking 
  • A variety of rich and engaging texts and text types
  • Catering for different learning needs and styles

 

(ii)    Phonics Curriculum

  •  Student booklet based
  • Alphabet focus
     
  • Learning through songs and actions
  • Phonics-based around a systematic and synthetic phonics approach: blends, graphemes and phonemes
  • Provision of reading, writing, listening and speaking opportunities
  • Connected to big book focus
  • Emphasis on learning to read and write fluently
  • Two booklets in the First and Second Terms respectively

3. English Cross-curricular Learning
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  • Cross-curricular thematic learning
  • Tailored to the themes of the big books or textbooks for each grade level
  • Aligning a variety of themes with different kinds of activities to make learning meaningful
  • Cultivating students’ relevant values and learning attitudes
    Promotion of positive and values education through activity engagement