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Sharing of Good Practices

for Using Various Language Arts Activities to Enhance the Creativity and Critical Thinking

of Gifted / More Able Students

Po Leung Kuk Stanley Ho Sau Nan

Primary School

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Content

(1) School Introduction

(2) Learning English in Drama (3) Writing Programme

(4) Reading Programme

(5) Other Trainings & Activities

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Brief Profile of our School and Students

- A subsidized school in Kowloon City

- Students are from the surrounding private and

public housing estates

- Mixed ability

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Aims

•Enrich the English language environment in school through conducting more English

language activities and developing more quality English language learning resources for students

•Promote reading and writing across the

curriculum in respect of the updated English

Language Curriculum (Primary)

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Learning English with

Drama

(6)

Why drama?

TABLE OF CONTENTS

What about the others?

What did we do?

What do students learn?

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Why drama?

01

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Benefits of acting skills

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What did we do?

02

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We have established an English drama school team with a

selection of students who have shown their passion and

potential in learning English as a

school elite programme.

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We uses ECA session on Fridays with afternoon online training with our experienced drama instructor Miss Emily due to Covid

restrictions.

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Hong Kong School Drama Festival

(13)

Hong Kong School Drama Festival Through Zoom

To stimulate creativity, smart learning, critical thinking and logical reasoning in students, drama and arts play a pivotal role in the

education process.

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What did students learn?

03

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Verbal Communication Skills

clear

confident

active listener

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Non-verbal Communication Skills

eye contact

gesture

facial expression

prosody

pitch, tone, volume, tempo

(17)

Inter-personal skills

teamwork

responsibility

caring

motivation

problem-solving

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Problem-solving and critical thinking skills

face challenges & solve problems

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WHOLE PERSON

DEVELOPMENT

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What about

the others? 04

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Readers’ Theatre Charades

DURING LESSON

Scene Study Still Photos

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Appreciation of life

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Language

Arts in RaC

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RaC goals regarding language arts

• Aims to improve and enhance both the reading and speaking skills for students in junior primary school.

• Provides an opportunity for students to be exposed to authentic materials.

• Enables students to to view a piece of text from multiple perspectives.

• Enhances the engagement of students with the reading material.

• Allows students to explore different interpretations of the same text through changes in reading tone/voice.

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Primary 2 - Before

•No explicit instructions were given to students regarding

intonation and speed of reading

(free interpretation)

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Primary 2 - Process

• Practiced speaking with students – corrections on pronunciation

• Students were praised and encouraged for the efforts

• Recordings of similar material (poetry/nursery rhymes) were shown to students

• Students were explicitly taught some techniques on reading poetry (pauses, emphasis on rhymes etc.)

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Primary 2 - After

• Students are more comfortable with reading this text type.

• Students are more able to incorporate

intonation and speed changes within

the reading to enhance their output.

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Primary 3 - Before

• No explicit instructions were given to students

regarding

intonation and speed of

reading (free interpretation)

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Primary 3 - Process

• Practiced speaking with students – corrections on pronunciation

• Students were praised and encouraged for the efforts

• Analysis of the text were conducted together – students understand the text type to be a narrative story.

• Students worked together in groups to act out their favourite page of the book.

• Students work together to determine the best

intonation/gestures/reading speed to best convey the feeling of the story, particularly in scenes with dialogue.

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Primary 3 – After

• Students understand the importance of tonal

change to reflect feelings.

• Students can understand the text and incorporate the directions given into their tonal changes

(particularly within

dialogues eg. Ending the sentence on a higher note when the dialogue

contains a question)

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English Ambassadors

- Provide rich learning experiences through diversified activities and to nurture students’ potential

- Enhance vocabulary building, speaking and listening, reading and writing, high-order thinking, critical thinking, communication and leadership skills through different trainings

- Help teachers to promote different English activities

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English Folk Song Singing Contest

• Folk songs are often simple and repetitive

• Singing, dancing & movement

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Morning Assemblies

- Drama

- Story-telling - Sing songs

- Poetry recitation

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English Campus TV

Our English ambassadors tailor-made some interesting TV programmes.

For examples, story telling, craft and food making programmes.

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Tongue Twister Competition

Tongue twisters are a great way to practice and improve pronunciation and fluency. They can also help to improve accents by using alliteration, which is the repetition of one sound. Students can become a confident speaker through training.

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Free-to-air Channel - Song Dedication

Our school provided a special chance for the students to share their Christmas greetings and to promote Christmas carols through the English Channel.

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English Week

Students had the golden chances to learn different language skills.

Both of the lower and upper class students had high participation in the activities.

(38)

Fun Fun After-school English Language Course / Online Zoom Course

We offer fun and engaging workshops for our English

Ambassadors and gifted students

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Puppetry Training

Puppetry is great for building confidence, improving the interpersonal and group communication. It also enhance students’ creativity, public speaking skill and build up self-confidence.

Students get an opportunity to come up on stage and

demonstrate what they’ve

learnt in the class.

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Parental Education

•Home-school cooperation

•Invite parents to join the seminar on how to

enhance students’ language development and

creativity

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Conclusion

• Students participated in school in different ways.

• Stimulated students’ creativity and different language skills.

• Encouraged students’ critical thinking at different learning stages.

• Enhance students’ self-directed learning and communication skills.

• Build up students’ confidence and learning motivation.

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