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Higher Chinese Writing Strategies for Singapore Upper Primary Students

Author: Zhou Hongxia, Wang Juan, Li Jing, Tham Kok Yung
Publisher: SCCL Press
Publication Date: February, 2023
ISBN: 978-981-18-6445-2

        Developed by Singapore Centre for Chinese Language, this teaching toolkit on "Higher Chinese Writing Strategies for Singapore Upper Primary Students" is designed for Primary 5 and 6 Higher Chinese writing lessons. It consists of eight units, four on Continuous Writing and the other four on Situational Writing. Each of the units focuses on using the Composition Maps designed by the authors to guide students on how to analyse the question of the writing task to determine what to write and on how to organise and structure their composition. In addition, the lesson plan and worksheet for every unit provide examples and suggested words to use so that students will learn how to enrich the content of their composition by adding appropriate descriptive elements (such as describing people's appearances, actions, language, facial expressions and thoughts).

        The toolkit adopts the notion of differentiated instruction in its design. Each unit contains a lesson plan, a set of PowerPoint (PPT) slides, and three different worksheets to accommodate the learning needs of students of different degrees of readiness.

        A brief note on the toolkit's instructional design is also provided for teachers' reference.