Q&A - PSLE English
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ridcully:
Some of the students I meet are taught to include sender and recipient whereas others are told it's all optional!
For formal letters, that cannot be right. :shock:
Do write to MOE and share its reply with us.
Thankfully, I haven't encountered any inconsistencies so far among my students. All of them have been taught by their school teachers to include the recipient and address for formal letters, and to omit the address for informal letters. -
Hi Mdm Koh
Exactly!
For those students taught not to include addresses, I usually default to ‘Oh well, if that’s what your teacher says’ but then I stress that their salutation, body text and complimentary close must unambiguously be formal.
I also agree with chrisu that some schools seem to miss out various text types. Another point for my increasingly lengthier letter to MOE…
Rgds
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The single piece of printed lines (only 15 lines) was given during my daughter’s SA1, though that situational writing was report writing. The teacher made it very clear - only 1 piece will be given.
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chrisu:
That doesn't sound right for the PSLE. Fifteen lines is way insufficient. The Composition Booklet is much more generous, although I do not have a copy of one and have not seen one for many years.The single piece of printed lines (only 15 lines) was given during my daughter's SA1, though that situational writing was report writing. The teacher made it very clear - only 1 piece will be given.
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I was no PSLE EL marker nor examiner. But students will have access to more than 1 piece of writing paper. The compo markers will let you know that the high scoring compos are more than 200 words long, even if instructions mention only 150 words.
EL teachers will have ‘trained’ children the necessary format for letter/ email/ informal writing. I have not peeped much into my daughter’s work on this section simply cos she knows what to do and does it quite well. -
That's why I got a shock when my daughter showed me what the class was given during SA1 for the situation writing. Before seeing that, I insisted that address definitely must be written for letter writing but now I think she better check with the teacher on what to do in PSLE if letter writing will to come out. Also what and how many sheets of paper will be given for PSLE situation writing (not compo).
ridcully:
That doesn't sound right for the PSLE. Fifteen lines is way insufficient. The Composition Booklet is much more generous, although I do not have a copy of one and have not seen one for many years.chrisu:
The single piece of printed lines (only 15 lines) was given during my daughter's SA1, though that situational writing was report writing. The teacher made it very clear - only 1 piece will be given.
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Hi chrisu
Just wanted to say best wishes and good luck to your daughter in the forthcoming oral exams this week.
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chrisu, perhaps for SA1 the school gave them 1 single piece of answer paper (why ? save $$$ ?!) but for PSLE, it should be in booklet form so the child should have plenty of space to write the text type in right format.
formal letter - yes, it is in the syllabus. My P5 just did in school. Teacher wants them to specify sender's address only, not optional but no recipient address. Originally, I told him to write both sender and recipient addresses but in the end we followed the school's format.
R, if you do send the queries and get any reply, share with us here. Thanks in advance ! -
Thank you ridcully. I'm rather worried for her PSLE English Picture Discussion and Converstion. Those are her weakess...
BTW she just finished her Prelim English Situational Writing/Compo and Listening Compre yesterday. Again the Situational Writing was given a piece of 15 lines paper only and the topic was about writing a food review for newsletter.ridcully:
Hi chrisu
Just wanted to say best wishes and good luck to your daughter in the forthcoming oral exams this week.
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Hi pixiedust,
I've not seen how the booklet be like and whether in the booklet, how many pieces of writing paper is allocated to situtional writing and how many to compo. I believe only the school or MOE will be able to tell us. The principal told us what the school did for SA is the same as PSLE. That's why I'm worried if they are exactly the same.pixiedust:
chrisu, perhaps for SA1 the school gave them 1 single piece of answer paper (why ? save $$$ ?!) but for PSLE, it should be in booklet form so the child should have plenty of space to write the text type in right format.
formal letter - yes, it is in the syllabus. My P5 just did in school. Teacher wants them to specify sender's address only, not optional but no recipient address. Originally, I told him to write both sender and recipient addresses but in the end we followed the school's format.
R, if you do send the queries and get any reply, share with us here. Thanks in advance !
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