Language Learning Support Section

> Purpose & Design

To improve students’ literacy in terms of reading fluency, accuracy and comprehension ability
To supplement the teaching of traditional phonics programmes

Design of the project
- Teachers of Cheung Chau Sacred Heart School wanted to work on literacy development by enhancing students’ vocabulary building skills. They worked together to identify different vocabulary skills evident in textbook units and readers and to include them in the teaching plans. In addition, P3 students were taught sight words systematically in every lesson. Teachers decided to first teach the pre-primer, primer and the 1st level of the Dolch word list.
- Teachers taught sight words explicitly to P3 students (pre-primer list, primer list and 1st level list were taught in P3 while 2nd level and 3rd level lists were taught one year later when the students went up to P4).
- A teaching kit consisting of a suggested teaching schedule, a full set of teaching PowerPoints and flashcards for classroom teaching, a student self learning booklet, peer assignment papers and teacher assessment papers were provided.

Assessment tools

	Test requirement	Assessment focus
Part I	Students read aloud a paragraph of the story	Reading fluency
Part II	Students read aloud the sight words	Sight word recognition
Part III	Students complete comprehension questions	Reading comprehension

Pre-test and post test were carried out before and after the teaching in both academic years, data were collected and analysed.
Teachers’ daily observation of students’ learning performance