Page 8 - Year 1 SOW 2020

1. Overview of the Primary Year 1 Scheme of Work

1. What is the Primary Year 1 Scheme of Work, and how can it help teachers?

The Primary Year 1 Scheme of Work gives teachers an overview of the Content and Learning
Standards, lesson content and materials for their lessons with Primary Year 1 pupils. They can use
the Scheme of Work to help with their daily, weekly and longer-term lesson planning.

2. How is the Primary Year 1 Scheme of Work organised?

The Scheme of Work provides outlines for lessons which focus on listening, speaking, reading, writing
or Language Arts over the whole school year.

It links the lessons to:

 themes and cross-curricular elements in the Primary Year 1 national curriculum
 the four – lesson cycle of skills lessons (Listening, Speaking, Reading, and Writing) and a
Language Arts lesson as outlined in the Primary Year 1 national curriculum
 the Content and Learning Standards contained within the Curriculum Framework document
 suggested learning materials for teachers to use and/or adapt for their classes.

In addition, it provides suggestions on pre-lesson, lesson development and post-lesson content. It
also suggests ways of differentiating learning tasks to help pupils at different levels of language
understanding and use.

3. How are content and skills organised in Primary Year 1?

Primary Year 1 starts with two getting-to-know-you lessons, two phonics lessons, and a Language
Arts lesson. From Lesson 6 onwards, Primary Year 1 is generally organised into textbook-based
lessons (using the selected textbook - Superminds 1) and non-textbook-based lessons. In the
textbook-based lessons, there are four skills lessons and a Language Arts lesson. The sequence of
the skills lessons in the textbook-based lessons is decided by the focus in the Superminds 1 textbook.
In the non-textbook-based lesson, the skills lessons are mostly in a fixed order of Listening, Speaking,
Reading and Writing, as suggested in KSSR Bahasa Inggeris Tahun 1 (National schools) and KSSR
Bahasa Inggeris SJK Tahun 1 (National-type schools) of 2011.

Within each lesson, pupils do a range of activities and they often use and practise more than one skill,
as is found in everyday language use. For example, a speaking lesson may also involve listening;
introductory and/or follow-up activities may practise target language through a different skill, for
example, pupils may read words they have practised using in spoken language. Therefore, every
lesson identifies a main and a complementary content and learning standard, and these often focus
on different skills. The first standard stated in the Scheme of Work represents the main focus of the
lesson, and the complementary standards are secondary. Lesson objectives can be derived from both
these main and complementary standards.

The purpose of the non-textbook-based lessons is to recycle and consolidate language and skills
practised in the textbook-based lessons, which should be identified through formative classroom-
based assessment of pupils’ progress.

4
Primary Year 1 Scheme of Work