1. STANDARD-BASED ENGLISH LANGUAGE PRIMARY SCHOOL CURRICULUM(KSSR) 2011

2. GENERAL AIMS Primary ( exit after Year 6)
The English Language Curriculum for Primary Schools aims to equip pupils with basic language skills to enable them to communicate effectively in a variety of contexts that’s appropriate to the pupils’ level of development

3. OBJECTIVES OF THE CURRICULUM
By the end of Year 6, pupils should be able to:
communicate with peers and adults confidently and appropriately in formal and informal situations;
read and comprehend a range of English texts for information and enjoyment;
write a wide range of texts using appropriate language, style and form through a variety of media;
appreciate and demonstrate understanding of English language literary or creative works for enjoyment; and
use correct and appropriate rules of grammar in speech and writing

4. UNDERLYING PRINCIPLES OF THE CURRICULUM
Back to Basics
Fun Learning
Learner Centredness
Integration of salient new technologies
Assessment for learning
Character Building

5. STANDARD-BASED CURRICULUM MODEL
Educational Emphases
Multiple Intelligences
Contextualism
Constructivism
Learning How to Learn
Skills
Entrepreneurship
Creativity and
Innovation
ICT skills
Values and Citizenship
Grammar
Phonics
Vocabulary
Listening
Writing
Reading
Speaking
Social skills
High Order Thinking Skills
World of Stories
World of Self, Family & Friends
World of Knowledge

6. CURRICULUM MATRIX STRAND 1 STRAND 2 Language Focus Language Arts
LEVEL 2
(YEARS 4, 5 & 6)
300 MINS PER WEEK – SK
180 MINS PER WEEK - SJK
Skills – Listening & Speaking,
Reading and Writing
Vocabulary
(includes Science & Maths themes
as well as Grammar )
Readers +
(Contemporary Children’s Literature)
Genres:
Short Story, Poems and Graphic Novel
LEVEL 1
(YEARS 1,2 & 3)
150 MINS PER WEEK - SJK
Skills – Listening & Speaking,
Grammar (Year 3)
Phonics: SK -Y1 & 2, SJK – Y1-Y3
Penmanship
- Big Books
Lady Bird Series
Music, Poetry & Drama

7. A MODULAR APPROACH LISTENING AND SPEAKING MODULE READING MODULE
WRITING MODULE
LANGUAGE ARTS MODULE (CONTEMPORARY CHILDREN’S LITERATURE YEAR 4-6)
GRAMMAR MODULE
STAGE ONE
(YEARS 1 – 3)
STAGE TWO
(YEARS 4 – 6)
YEAR 1
YEAR 2
YEAR 3
YEAR 4
YEAR 5
YEAR 6

8. CONTENT CONFIGURATION FOR STAGE 2 (YEAR 4-6)L1 L2 L3 L4 L5
LISTENING & SPEAKING
READING
WRITING/GRAMMAR
World of Self
GRAMMAR/WRITING
LANGUAGE ARTS (CONTEMPORARARY CHILDREN’S LITERATURE)
World of Stories
World of Knowledge
World of Self
World of Stories
World of Knowledge
World of Self
World of Stories
World of Knowledge

9. THE MODULAR APPROACH FOR TEACHING ENGLISH (YEAR 4-6)
Recommended structure for English language lessons:
LESSON 1
Listening & Speaking
LESSON 2
Reading
LESSON 3
Writing/
Grammar
LESSON 4
Grammar/Writing
LESSON 5
Language Arts (Contemporary Children’s Literature)

10. COMPARISON BETWEEN KBSR & KSSR
1. CURRICULUM DOCUMENTATION
STANDARD DOCUMENT
SYLLABUS
CURRICULUM SPECIFICATIONS
CONTENT STANDARDS
&
LEARNING STANDARDS

11. COMPARISON BETWEEN KBSR & KSSR
2. CURRICULUM ORGANISATION
LANGUAGE TAUGHT THROUGH THREE BROAD AREAS
LANGUAGE TAUGHT THROUGH THREE BROAD AREAS
MODULAR STRUCTURE
INTEGRATION OF SKILLS
INTEGRATION OF SKILLS

12. COMPARISON BETWEEN KBSR & KSSR
3. CURRICULUM CONTENT
FOCUS ON FOUR LANGUAGE SKILLS
FOCUS ON FOUR LANGUAGE SKILLS
BASIC LITERACY
SOUND SYSTEM
PHONICS
LANGUAGE ARTS
PENMANSHIP
GRAMMAR IN CONTEXT
GRAMMAR IN CONTEXT

13. COMPARISON BETWEEN KBSR & KSSR
4. APPROACH
WHOLE LANGUAGE
PHONICS
STANDARD BRITISH ENGLISH
5. ADDED VALUES
EDUCATIONAL EMPHASES
EDUCATIONAL EMPHASES
CREATIVITY & INNOVATION
ENTREPRENEURSHIP
ICT SKILLS

14. NEW ELEMENTS IN THE STANDARD-BASED ENGLISH LANGUAGE CURRICULUM
Language Arts – Contemporary Children’s Literature
The Modular Approach/Configuration
Assessment for learning

15. ASSESSMENT CURRICULUM COMPONENT
CONTENT
CURRICULUM
PEDAGOGY
ASSESSMENT

16. ASSESSMENT
YEAR 4 ONWARDS– 1 document; CURRICULUM AND ASSESSMENT STANDARD DOCUMENT (CDD), a document which contains Content Standards, Learning Standards and Performance Standards
Teaching and Learning follows the modular structure of Listening & Speaking, Reading, Writing, Language Arts and Grammar.
Assessment is done for all the language skills. Grammar is assessed through the Speaking and Writing Skills. This is because when you assess a pupil for fluency and accuracy in Speaking and Writing, you are indirectly assessing the grammar that is used.
Assessment is recorded for L&S, R, W & LA in the EXCEL template.

17. 4. Assessment is formative in nature and is ongoing
4. Assessment is formative in nature and is ongoing. Therefore, you are constantly assessing your pupils as you teach, making changes to your methods or approaches so that your pupils will understand better. However, the recording of the levels (EXCEL template) is only done once every 3 months.
How do you justify the levels of performance that you assign to each pupil?
- Through the exercises, worksheets, class presentations, exercises in the activity books, quizzes etc. You do not need to have a special file to collect and keep all these evidence of your pupils. The evidence is in the form of the written and oral work that you do in the classroom.
6. If the school carries out the mid term and end of year examination, the format will have to incorporate all the 4 modules stipulated in the DSKP; L&S, R, W & LA. So, the testing is not only paper and pen but covers all these modules.

18. THE CONTEMPORARY CHILDREN’S LITERATURE

19. AIMS
Create interest in pupils towards literature by introducing them to a variety of literary texts of different genres.
Provide pupils with an early beginning and foundation to literature.
Develop pupils’ understanding of other societies, cultures, values and traditions that will help pupils in their emotional and spiritual growth.
Expose pupils to the aesthetic use of the English language.

20. BACKGROUND Introduced in all primary schools since 2004.
Involves pupils from Year (Level 2).
Compulsory to be taught and learnt.
Current cycle of books will end in 2014 for Year 4.
Cycle 2 (new texts) will be used from Year 4 onwards in stages.
2014
2015
2016
Year 4
Year 5
Year 6

21. Texts In The Current Cycle (Cycle 1)
Year 4 National Schools
The following titles are used in Perlis, Kedah, Pulau Pinang, Perak, Selangor, Wilayah Persekutuan Kuala Lumpur, Negeri Sembilan, Melaka and Johor:
Tidy Your Room, Tanya! – Pamela Rushby
Tales and Tails – Hyacinth Gaudart
The Little Blue Boy – Fatou Keita Danalis Distributors
The following titles are used in Pahang, Terengganu, Kelantan, Sabah, Sarawak and Wilayah Persekutuan Labuan:
Coral Bay Surprise – Barbara & David Miller
Everyone is Good At Something – Peter Etherton
The Humble Prince – Kumara Velu

22. Texts In The New Cycle (Cycle 2) SK & SJK GENRES
POEMS (COMPILATION)
THE SHORT STORY
THE GRAPHIC NOVEL
1. This Tooth by Lee Bennett Hopkins
Cats by John Kitching
Serenade by Bobby Katz
Watching a Bumble Bee by Wes Magee
Miss Antrobus by Richard Edwards
The Meal by Karla Kuskin
Seaside by Shirley Hughes
The Dark by Adrian Henri
And Something Weird Happened
by Pamela Rushby
Gulliver’s Travel
by Jonathan Swift

23. KEEP IN MIND!
Teachers are free to choose whichever genre to start teaching in Year 5 as long as all genres are covered in a year.
Finish teaching one genre before moving on to the next.
Teachers need to plan the allocation of time (weeks) to cover each text according to the needs and level of their pupils.
If pupils are advanced and teachers have finished teaching all the texts in the 3 genres, they are encouraged to use literary texts of their own during the Language Arts classes.

24. Thank You