About the STELLAR program

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Hi everyone,


Yes, do visit the link
http://www.stellarliteracy.sg/
(Click on \"Resources\" heading and select \"For Students\", you will find
all the BIG BOOK titles there, but only games, they do not publish the
content of the BIG BOOK)
and also
http://www.edpstellar.blogspot.com/
which is Endeavour Primary's Stellar blogs, captures student activities
during their Stellar lessons.

These BIG Book books are BIG in size only available in school. Teachers
will tell the story to the class with these BIG books and tackle keywords
and vocab/grammar related to this story. Spelling words are the keywords
extracted from these stories. The Big Books were actually on display
during one of my girl's parent-teacher meeting (P1).

On top of \"workbooks\" designed by the school for each story theme, they
also have related activities like eating ice-cream, having a picnic during
class time to reinforce what they learned in the various stories.

From P2 onwards, they may have outings to enhance on what they learn
in class.

No need to spend money on textbooks/workbooks if your school is using
STELLAR progam. Get your own preferred assessment books for general
revision if you wish.

If anyone is interested, I can post the list of the BIG book titles my girl
has completed this year (P1) for your reference (please ring a bell).
However, not the same titles are used for all schools on STELLAR,
teachers are allowed to pick and choose from a given pool of titles.
But I found out that 90% of the titles are the same. :idea:

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all.in.one:

If anyone is interested, I can post the list of the BIG book titles my girl has completed this year (P1) for your reference (please ring a bell).

Yes, all.in.one, please list down the titles your girl completed this year, just for our reference. Thanks for your help!

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Thanks all.in.one

yes pls, mean while I heard from another parent \"MOE purposely chose books that are extremely difficult for parents to buy off-the-shelf. They’re trying to discourage parents from buying them so that the pupils don’t get bored in class when they say they have already read the stories\" any way I just want to see them :lol:

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jedamum:

mods pls merge. TQ.

http://www.kiasuparents.com/kiasu/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1986&start=0

Thanking you for merging. I am a bit poor in searching the related topics :oops:

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List of STELLAR stories studied (2009 P1):


1. Mrs Wishy-Washy
2.The Farm Concert
3. Hairy Bear
4. Dan The Flying Man
*Draw comics of Dan
5. To Town
6. Walking Through the Jungle
7. The Hungry Giant
*Some food event, cannot remember
8. Smarty Pants
9. The Jigaree
10. The Giant's Ice Cream
*Ice Cream Party
11. Who will be my mother?
12. Poggy and the Cows
13. Lazy Duck
14. The King's Cake
*Costume Parade
15. There is a nightmare in my closet
16. Mr Grump's Outing
*Picnic

* associated activities

At the end of each unit, there will be a Unit Review Test worksheet.
Not to worry too much about getting the Big Book. So far, my girl is
doing well and is kept engross with the stories and activities. Check out
during the Parent's briefing or Parent-Teacher meeting to see if they
display the books. Or may be can ask the teacher to show you a sample.
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I think they read "The Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly" too (can’t remember the exact title) cos my DD’s spelling list included words/sentences from it.

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I would not want to let my boy read the book at home first, but would like to know the themes/topics so that can get similar books.

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wow, looks like some of them she(my dd) knows , got them from library. only 16 titles for an year?

Thank you mummy(s) you are really great. sharing your values…

[titank]

Oh had checked Radin Mas is using STELLAR. Like that can save buying the English textbook?

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titank:

Oh had checked Radin Mas is using STELLAR. Like that can save buying the English textbook?

Yes, but be prepared to file a lot of worksheets, in my DD's case. She also had a supplementary grammar book with rules and qns inside. Sometimes, she is assigned work from that book.