Primary 3 English Confidence Class

  • Type

    Ongoing course

  • Duration

    10 classes (60 mins / class)

  • Size

    1-8 students / class

"I and my daughter love it because there is learning from her peers as well as Teacher Isaac" Jie Xin, Tiffany’s mom on Learner.Net.
Problems addressed
In EL paper 1 & 2 students have the following difficulties:
  • Insufficient ideas and content or writer’s block
  • Fear or dislike towards free writing
  • Not knowing how to execute good ideas in free writing
  • Poor grammar & poor sentence structure causing them to lose marks
  • Poor vocabulary use
  • Unable to score distinctions in Situational Writing
  • Inability to fully understand texts, from a lack of reading.
  • Inability to fill in comprehension close passage questions.
  • Inability to tackle synthesis questions because of a lack of exposure to a variety of sentence structures.
  • Unfamiliarity with complex vocabulary
This course aims to address the above weaknesses and aims to teach the following:
  • Teach the rules of free writing
  • Give students a simple system to build their story ideas, which they can manipulate and form stories which are to their liking for free writing
  • Teach techniques for scoring a distinction in Situational Writing.
  • Teach Grammar for simple and complex sentence structure
  • Teach Grammar for the correct use of Verb tenses
  • Teach vocabulary use in vocabulary-focused lessons
  • Expose children to high interest and high quality reading material, with integrated vocab lessons
  • Train confidence and originality in forming speaking responses through practice and the injection of useful re-usable ideas
  • Train proper read-out-loud techniques
By the end of the course, students will be able to:
  1. Design interesting and original story plans
  2. Learn to execute their stories in an exciting, interesting way
  3. Fall in love with the creative writing process
  4. Speak and share about a variety of topics
  5. Learn and practice good grammar
  6. Use high value vocabulary in writing and speaking
  7. Improve their paper 2 marks
  8. Fall in love with reading and writing
Overview
overview
"I and my daughter love it because there is learning from her peers as well as Teacher Isaac" Jie Xin, Tiffany’s mom on Learner.Net.
Problems addressed
In EL paper 1 & 2 students have the following difficulties:
  • Insufficient ideas and content or writer’s block
  • Fear or dislike towards free writing
  • Not knowing how to execute good ideas in free writing
  • Poor grammar & poor sentence structure causing them to lose marks
  • Poor vocabulary use
  • Unable to score distinctions in Situational Writing
  • Inability to fully understand texts, from a lack of reading.
  • Inability to fill in comprehension close passage questions.
  • Inability to tackle synthesis questions because of a lack of exposure to a variety of sentence structures.
  • Unfamiliarity with complex vocabulary
This course aims to address the above weaknesses and aims to teach the following:
  • Teach the rules of free writing
  • Give students a simple system to build their story ideas, which they can manipulate and form stories which are to their liking for free writing
  • Teach techniques for scoring a distinction in Situational Writing.
  • Teach Grammar for simple and complex sentence structure
  • Teach Grammar for the correct use of Verb tenses
  • Teach vocabulary use in vocabulary-focused lessons
  • Expose children to high interest and high quality reading material, with integrated vocab lessons
  • Train confidence and originality in forming speaking responses through practice and the injection of useful re-usable ideas
  • Train proper read-out-loud techniques
By the end of the course, students will be able to:
  1. Design interesting and original story plans
  2. Learn to execute their stories in an exciting, interesting way
  3. Fall in love with the creative writing process
  4. Speak and share about a variety of topics
  5. Learn and practice good grammar
  6. Use high value vocabulary in writing and speaking
  7. Improve their paper 2 marks
  8. Fall in love with reading and writing
Course Schedule
Course Schedule
Taught By
Taught By
Teacher Isaac Quek

Teacher Isaac is an Ex MOE teacher with 7 years of teaching experience. He has a degree in History from NUS, a Post Graduate Diploma in Education from NIE and a CELTA English Teaching qualification from Cambridge University, UK. He has taught communication and research writing skills in Singapore Polytechnic and has taught English at several enrichment schools in Singapore. He loves giving students 'aha' moments.

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