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9 June 2010 – Wednesday
It was the first lesson of the program, which took about 2 and a half hours (10.00 a.m. – 12.30 p.m.). There were 39 Year 6 students participating the program. First, they sat for a pre-test in an hour’s time. The pre-test consisted of 3 sections in the UPSR (Malaysian Primary Schools Assessment) format, i.e. sentence construction, information transfer and note-expansion (refer to Appendix). It was used to collect data on the students’ performance in writing skills. Next, the students were divided into groups of 3 or 4 with mixed abilities of proficiency. Then, the lesson was carried out using the Student Studybook through power-point presentation. While doing the assignment in Lesson 3 of Unit 1, the students discussed and constructed sentences in groups based on the pictures and words given. The teacher played the role as a facilitator. Before the lesson ended, the students handed in their work for marking.
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Read More … Write More – Teacher’s Manual describes a variety of useful teaching strategies. However, none of them are more effective than the strategy for writing feedback comments to individual students. Feedback comments provide students with two sets of important information. First, it tells them what they are doing well and second, it suggests ways of improving their writing. [To learn more, click HERE.
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Teaching: How to write feedback
Read More … Write More – Teacher’s Manual describes a variety of useful teaching strategies. However, none of them are more effective than the strategy for writing feedback comments to individual students. Feedback comments provide students with two sets of important information. First, it tells them what they are doing well and second, it suggests ways of improving their writing. [To learn more, click HERE.