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

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

3. 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

4. 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

5. Staff Development

6. Teacher training workshops on
reading & writing skills

7. Reading skills

11. Writing skills

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

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

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

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

16. 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)

17. 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)