At the end of the course, participants will be able to:
1. Better understand the characteristics and the requirements of teaching Situational Writing and Continuous Writing for upper primary students of Higher Chinese;
2. Learn how to guide students to write by using the thinking maps in Reading and Writing components in IMs.
3. Learn how to use 'Composition Map‘ to guide upper primary students of Higher Chinese to correctly understand writing prompts given in the topics, situations or the beginning so as to formulate reasonable story structure and content ;
4. Apply the strategies in teaching design for upper primary students of Higher Chinese.

The course covers the following contents:
1. Introducing the characteristics and the requirements of teaching Situational Writing and Continuous Writing for upper primary students of Higher Chinese;
2. Illustrating the examples of using the appropriate thinking maps in Reading and Writing components of IMs in writing teaching for upper primary students of Higher Chinese.
3. Illustrating the use of the 'Composition Map' to guide upper primary students of Higher Chinese to correctly understand writing prompts given in the topics, situations or the beginning so as to formulate reasonable story structure and content ;
4. Hands-on and sharing session on using the strategies in teaching design for upper primary students of Higher Chinese.

Asynchronous learning (0.5 hours) & Synchronous learning (3 hours)

1. Understanding the characteristics and the requirements of teaching Situational Writing and Continuous Writing for upper primary students of Higher Chinese;
2. Illustrating the examples of using the appropriate thinking maps in Reading and Writing components of IMs in writing teaching for upper primary students of Higher Chinese.
3. Illustrating and applying the strategy of using the 'Composition Map‘ to guide upper primary students of Higher Chinese to correctly understand writing prompts given in the topics, situations or the beginning so as to formulate reasonable story structure and content;
4. Hands-on and sharing session on using the strategies in teaching design for upper primary students of Higher Chinese.