To be held on Day 4 of each cycle

Frequency (per year) – 16 times

4 times before Assessment 1 (Best 3 dictations for formative assessment)

5 times before Assessment 2 (Best 4 dictations for formative assessment)

7 times before Assessment 3 (Best 6 dictations for formative assessment)

  Formative Assessment

Summative Assessment

Overall Weighting

  A1 A2 A3 A1 A2 A3  

GE ---- --- --- --- --- --- 80%

Speaking 50% 50% 10%

Listening &Dictation

50% 50% 10%

Textbook

Phonics

Theme-based vocabulary (e.g. colour words, number words, etc.)

High frequency words

e.g. 29/9 Dict PLE P.2-3, phonics (b, p), number (1-10), HFW (1-6)

Types of sections in dictation:

Listening Fill in the blanks Phonics High Frequency Words

Examples: Colour Number Circle Underline Multiple choice type questions

Samples

Texts to be constructed by teachers in every other dictation

Step-by-step progress from words to sentences/paragraphs before Assessment 1

Samples

Samples

1.

a

2.

in

3. he

4. am

5.

the

6.

big

7.

an

8. at

9.

it

10.

I

11. is

12.

and

13. one

14. look

15. have

16.

to

17.

you

18. she

19.

we

20. are

21. six

22. my

23.

two

24.

see

25.

boy

26. read

27. no

28. girl

29. this

30. up

31. play

32.

yes33. run

34. what

35. little

36. hot

37. put

38.

on

39. not

40.

has

41. three

42.

brother

43. four

44. sister

45. walk

46. they

47. black

48.

white49. by

50. brown

51. yellow

52. ten

53. nine

54. five

55. six

56. seven

57. eight

58. red

59. blue

60. green

Samples

P.15

Keys to Success in Learning English

interested in learning English

more exposure to English

Pen and pencil replaced by chalk, multi-coloured pens, scrabble tiles,

pipecleaners, etc.

To name a few,

Hangman Bingo Wordsearch Jumbled words Dominoes

Answers: thin playplanthenstopopenstaythan

DominoesDominoes

DominoesDominoes

Answer: shirt

Answers:

itishihissititssirhitthishitsstirshirt

Look

Say Spell

Cover

Write Check

cat

c-a-t

cat

cat

http://www.amblesideprimary.com/ambleweb/lookcover/lookcover.html

letter-sound relationship e.g. -ar

http://www.starfall.com/n/level-k/index/load.htm?f

http://www.ictgames.com/dinosaursEggs/index.html

Break words up into syllables

◦hip-po ◦pen-cil ◦pa-per

e.g. - One clap for each syllable - Tap your desk

family (Father and mother, I love you!)

bed (The word ‘bed’ looks like a bed.)

weather (we-at-her) together (to-get-her)

Words in a word (pink: in, pin, ink)

“ sun” and “son”

What is your name? My name is May.

Theme-based learning e.g. animals, food, etc

Help your child relate the words to pictures

PLE Audio CD

Elect self-learning platform

Online pronunciation

http://www.skhcfcn.edu.hk/subject/eng/Self_access_learning_materials/P1%20High%20Frequency%20Words%20.htm

Make a revision plan

Revise regularly

Good revision habitsGood revision habits

http://www.edb.gov.hk/attachment/en/curriculum-development/kla/eng-edu/information%20booklet%20on%20dictation.pdf

Reading is the key to Reading is the key to success.success.

Thank you!