Singapore · MOE Syllabus Outcomes
Primary 4 English Language
A comprehensive literacy course designed to transition students from learning to read to reading to learn. It focuses on deepening inferential comprehension, refining narrative craft, and building confidence in oral communication through authentic text types.
The Power of Narrative: Crafting Compelling Stories
Students explore the mechanics of fiction by analyzing character development and plot structures to create their own engaging narratives.
Examining how authors use internal thoughts and external actions to reveal character traits and drive the story forward.
Using the five senses to create immersive environments that influence the mood of a story.
Deconstructing the stages of a plot from the inciting incident to the final resolution.
Informing the World: Expository and Information Texts
This unit focuses on reading for information and organizing facts into clear, logical reports and articles.
Developing critical literacy skills to distinguish between objective reporting and subjective commentary.
Learning to use headings, subheadings, and bullet points to organize complex information for a target audience.
Analyzing how diagrams, captions, and charts complement written text to convey meaning.
Persuasion and Influence: The Art of Argument
Students learn the linguistic tools needed to persuade an audience, focusing on advertisements and opinion pieces.
Identifying techniques like slogans, emotive language, and celebrity endorsements in everyday media.
Drafting persuasive essays that use evidence and reasoning to support a specific point of view.
Practicing oral communication skills, including pace, intonation, and body language, to deliver a persuasive speech.
The Grammar of Meaning: Language Conventions
A focused look at how grammar and punctuation function as tools for clarity and stylistic expression.
Mastering the use of past, present, and perfect tenses to indicate sequences of events accurately.
Using conjunctions and connectors to show cause and effect, contrast, and addition.
Expanding word choice to avoid repetition and to provide more specific descriptions.
Visual and Digital Literacy: Navigating Modern Media
Analyzing and creating multi-modal texts, from posters to digital presentations, to understand how meaning is co-constructed.
Understanding how the placement of images and text on a page directs the reader's attention.
Discussing responsible behavior and etiquette in digital spaces and online collaboration.
Combining speech, images, and text to deliver a cohesive digital presentation.
Deepening Comprehension: Reading Between the Lines
Advanced strategies for inferential reading, focusing on identifying themes and author's purpose in complex texts.
Learning to combine prior knowledge with text evidence to draw logical conclusions.
Moving beyond the plot to understand the underlying message or lesson the author wants to convey.
Analyzing why a text was written and how the author's viewpoint shapes the content.