Gifted Education School Network Experience Sharing Compendium - English Language Education

Stretching Students’ Potential through the Adoption of Literature Circle in the English Classroom

- TWGHs Ko Ho Ning Memorial Primary School

• This lesson example demonstrates how young students (Primary 2) learn to engage with texts by setting tiered questions on their own, and take control of their literacy in positive and rewarding ways.
• Students’ creativity and higher-order thinking skills are also nurtured and stretched through the tiered creative writing tasks.

Sparking Curiosity, Helping Students Ask Better Questions and Showing Creativity

- Munsang College Primary School

• This lesson example demonstrates how two particular skills of reciprocal teaching – questioning and predicting can be incorporated in reading lessons.
• With the use of tiered worksheets, students are engaged with the reading text, monitor and build comprehension through questioning and make use of their prediction skills to solve the problem presented in the reading text.

Nurturing Students’ Higher-order Thinking Skills in the English Classroom

- NLSI Lui Kwok Pat Fong College

• To help students build strong and sound arguments in writing, it is important to show them the differences between facts and opinions and how facts can serve to support and strengthen an opinion.
• This lesson example showcases how teacher can help students differentiate evidence and personal observation/ opinions and how fact could be used to validate and strengthen students’ reasoning.