The whole-school approach - Promoting Reading & Writing to enhance students’ language proficiency

True Light Middle School of HK Miss Yip Yee Kwan Miss Chu Suk Ching (English vice-Panel Head) (Chemistry Panel Head) EMI Team Coordinators

Aims Enhance students’ language proficiency Enrich students’ subject Knowledge Help students develop reading skills to become effective readers Through Reading a wide range of text-types with different subject content

Principles Promote cross-curricular collaboration Facilitate collaboration between teachers of English and teachers of other KLAs Should NOT be extra tasks to students & teachers Can be integrated into the curriculum / blended in subject-based classroom activities

Staff Development

Teacher training workshops on reading & writing skills

Reading skills

Writing skills

Genre of the writing task : HOW -- Genre : Organization of ideas / Structure of the text Language features WHAT -- Subject Content

Finding out Text-types Procedure Describe the process of … Outline how … could be done. What could you do to … ? How does it work ?

Finding out Text-types Descriptive Report Give a description of … List the characteristics of …. What are the properties of …? State the principle …

Finding out Text-types Explanation Explain how … works or was formed Explain why … occurs Account for …. What causes … ?

比較語體 Genre Schematic Structure Language Features Comparison Comparison point (比較點) – generally state out the aspect or points arising from the comparison between items or concepts, as the clear foundation of later comparison Elaborations (闡釋) – Detailed comparison between items or concepts points by Points Simple Present Tense (簡單現在式) - to present factual information Use connectives / adverbs expressing contrast ideas (連詞/副詞表示轉折關係) ( e.g. whereas, while, however, on the other hand, on the contrary, different from) expressing similarity (連詞/副 詞表示相似關係) (e.g. Similarly, Likewise, similar to, as …as, the same as, also)

Draw up an action plan for 3 years, as a measure of sustainability 06-07 : Learn to Read 07-08 : Learn to Read; Read to Write 08-09 : Learn to Read; Read to Write (II)