The teaching toolkit, entitled "I can write 'what I see' and 'what I think'—scaffolding instructions for picture composition writing", is a product of collaborative school-based research by Singapore Centre for Chinese Language, Concord Primary School and De La Salle School. It provides teachers with supplementary materials for Chinese composition writing lessons, and can be used as a school-based curriculum.

Designed for teaching picture composition writing in Primary 3 and 4 classes, the toolkit aims to assist students with the scaffolding teaching model and help them overcome the limitations of paucity of ideas and lack of coherence in writing. It comprises 8 units, complete with lesson plans, worksheets and PowerPoint slides. In addition, the chapters on scaffolding instruction theory and the toolkit's overall design equip teachers with a better understanding of the principles behind the toolkit. All the lesson plans have been experimented in schools with sound students' performance and are well received by teachers. This is a very handy toolkit for middle primary Chinese language teachers.

Developed by Singapore Centre for Chinese Language (SCCL), the revised "Elementary Writing" teaching toolkit is designed for use in lower Primary Chinese language lessons. As the product of a collaborative school-based research project by SCCL, Anglo Chinese School (Junior) and Bukit Timah Primary School, this toolkit exemplifies the innovative concept of "Research-Validate-Train" advocated by SCCL.

The toolkit comprises resources for both Primary 1 and Primary 2 levels. For each level, there are ten lesson plans and related student activity sheets designed on the basis of effective pedagogical principles. All the resources are aligned with the latest 2015 Chinese Language (Primary) Syllabus launched by MOE.

The revised "Elementary Writing" teaching toolkit provides a systematic approach to the teaching of elementary writing and is a useful resource for lower primary Chinese language teachers.

Developed by Singapore Centre for Chinese Language, the "Drama is the Laboratory of Learning Chinese as a Second Language" teaching toolkit (Updated Version) is designed for use in the teaching of Chinese language in primary and secondary schools. The toolkit comprises two parts: the Written Part and the Demonstrative Videos.

The Written Part begins with an introduction to the theories of drama in education and their application processes. It continues with an exploration of how drama can be integrated in the teaching and learning of Chinese, followed by a concise account of eight common drama conventions. The accompanying lesson plans, 7 for secondary school and 3 for primary school, give teachers a concrete idea of how the drama conventions can be applied in the Chinese classroom. Samples of students' compositions written with the aid of drama conventions are also appended.

The Video Section comprises the interviews of participant teachers and students as well as examples demonstrating how the drama conventions are used in the classroom. There are 13 videos in the toolkit.

The Written Explanations together with the Demonstrative Videos in the toolkit equip teachers with a deeper understanding of how drama can effectively be integrated in Chinese language teaching. The toolkit aims to change the stereotype concepts of the use of drama in education and ultimately promote drama pedagogy in Chinese language education.

Designed for Primary 3 and 4 Chinese teachers, this toolkit aims to improve students' oral proficiency while engaging them in self-directed and collaborative learning through the use of digital storytelling. Through the five steps of Speaking, Typing, Writing, Digital Story Assembly and Presentation, the toolkit will help to enhance students' comprehensive language competence of Chinese.

The toolkit contains four demonstrative teaching designs complete with lesson plans, worksheets and PPT presentations for teachers to integrate digital storytelling in their lessons. Five additional lesson plans dealing with different areas in oral and written communications are appended to give teachers ideas on the alternative methods of using digital storytelling in the teaching of Chinese.

Infusing theories from the field of education psychology, this package aims to help primary school students find fun in reading by providing teachers with effective teaching strategies for Chinese vocabulary acquisition and thinking skills development.

Based on L. W. Anderson's taxonomy of knowledge, the first chapter of this package tackles vocabulary acquisition by classifying vocabulary with a modified classification model, and then recommending 6 teaching methods for these different categories of vocabulary, namely: 1) Explanation through Examples, 2) Show and Tell, 3) Comparison and Contrast, 4) Deconstruction, 5) Translation and 6) Demonstration by Performing. A total of 12 lesson plans, 12 PowerPoint slideshows and 12 worksheets are included in this chapter.

The second chapter focuses on reading strategies, where teachers can train students to look out for "5W1H" and "PEEL" and opportunities for "Thinking Transfer" in passages from school textbooks. 13 lesson plans, 13 PowerPoint slideshows and 16 worksheets are included in this chapter.

To help teachers better understand the theories behind our production, design concepts, instructions and dissertations are also provided in the CD for reference.

When students are equipped with better reading techniques, provided with more knowledge transfer opportunities and have less difficulty with vocabularies, they will definitely find reading less tedious and enjoy reading in time to come.

Developed by Singapore Centre for Chinese Language, the "Teaching Chinese Idioms with Animation" teaching toolkit is designed for use by Primary 3 to 6 Chinese language teachers when teaching Chinese idioms. They may use the toolkit as a teaching aid or school-based teaching material.

Comprising 13 lesson plans, PowerPoint presentations as well as the respective network link addresses for the 48 animations specially created by Lu Feng Technology, the toolkit caters for the learning needs of primary school students in Singapore. Students would be able to master 48 idioms while watching the animations, with their interest in Chinese thus stimulated.

Each of the 13 lesson plans comes in two versions, catering to pupils of different levels of proficiency. The lesson plans demonstrate 13 different strategies to teach Chinese idioms. Appended to each lesson plan is a short essay, explaining the educational theory behind the strategy adopted. These strategies are effective not only for the teaching of Chinese idioms, but are also useful for the teaching of Chinese vocabulary in general. This toolkit is therefore beneficial to both students and teachers.

Developed by Singapore Centre for Chinese Language, the "Elementary Writing" teaching toolkit is designed for use in lower Primary Chinese language lessons. As the product of a collaborative school-based research project by SCCL and the Bukit Timah Primary School, this toolkit exemplifies the innovative concept of "Research-Validation-Training" advocated by SCCL.

The toolkit comprises ten lesson plans and related student activity sheets. The lesson plans will be a handy guide for primary school Chinese language teachers when teaching writing. The student activity sheets are fully illustrated with interesting cartoons which will certainly attract the students. The toolkit provides a systematic approach to the teaching of elementary writing. Students will learn basic writing skills in stages, beginning with sentence writing and moving onto paragraph writing. The first five lessons introduce some basic sentence patterns used in narration while the remaining lessons help students grasp the essential elements and basic structure of the narrative. It is a most useful toolkit for lower primary Chinese language teachers.