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 1. Singapore Primary Chinese Vocabulary Revision and Consolidation Toolkit

Author: Dr. Fan Jinghua, Dr. Goh Poh Huat, Huang Wanyu, Guo Xinyu
Publisher: NTU-SCCL Press
Publication Date: March, 2021
ISBN: 978-981-18-0591-2

        Characters and phrases already taught need to be refreshed through revision and consolidation activities before they can enter long-term memory. Character revision and new vocabulary learning require different approaches and strategies, and their teaching also requires different lesson plans and designs. The present teaching toolkit developed by the SCCL research team aims to enhance the revision of shixie zi (characters for writing) in the primary Chinese textbooks. It comprises three parts: 1) basic concepts concerning memory, with special reference to vocabulary revision, and an introduction to the principles underlying the design of revision activities in the toolkit, 2) one set of revision and enhancement activities for the "characters for writing" in the P1 to P5 Chinese textbooks, and 3) a list of the "characters for writing" designed for quick access to facilitate teachers' design of class revision activities.

2. Techniques to Enhance the Teaching and Learning of Text-paragraph Writing

Author: Gong Cheng, Tay Boon Pei, Tan Geok Hoon
Publisher: NTU-SCCL Press
Publication Date: March, 2021
ISBN: 978-981-18-0592-9

        Developed by the Singapore Centre for Chinese Language, the "Techniques to Enhance the Teaching and Learning of Text-paragraph Writing" teaching toolkit is designed for the use of Primary 4 Chinese language teachers. It provides teachers with useful supplementary teaching materials and can be used for a school-based curriculum.

        In this Toolkit, "text-paragraph" refers to any paragraph in a whole text. "Text-paragraph writing" refers to the writing activity of filling in a missing paragraph from a given text. Text-paragraph writing activities help students understand that paragraphs are an organic part of the whole text.

        Based on the contents of Happy Companions (Huanle Huoban), this Toolkit targets at the difficulties and problems that students often encounter when writing text-paragraphs. It aims to improve students' paragraph writing ability and enhance their textual awareness.

        The Toolkit consists of five units, comprising lesson plans, PowerPoint slides, and worksheets. In addition, a grading rubric, a diagram demonstrating the thinking steps for text-paragraph writing, and a summary table of the classification and examples of inter-paragraph /inter-sentence cohesive relation are provided for reference. Complete with scaffoldings, the Toolkit provides a systematic, step-by-step guide to improve the teaching and learning of text-paragraph writing. In addition, the many thinking graphs help to make the thinking-in-writing visible. This is a very useful toolkit for Primary 4 Chinese language teachers in their teaching of text-paragraph writing.