PSLE Oral
List of 2020 Preliminary Oral themes Part 2
2020 Preliminary Oral Themes Part 2 All my students’ prelim oral results have come in and I have to say I am really happy for them. The average score was 27/30 and this year, I Read more…
P5 English composition
P5 Weighted assessment Model Compo: Being Responsible
Model Composition about Being Responsible – Primary 5 How do we incorporate the ‘new normal’ in our compositions and oral? This is what I have been working on with my PSLE students this year. Life Read more…
News & updates
Registration is now open for P6 2021 classes
In 2 months, I will bid farewell to my current PSLE students. It was not a usual year. For almost 4 months the students went through plenty of disruptions, changes and anxiety. They had to Read more…
P5 Situational writing
Tips on Informal Situational Writing – P5
Situational Writing (SW) is the shortest piece of writing in the writing component and has a weightage of 15 marks. It is also the easier of the two (the other writing piece being Composition) to Read more…
Lower Secondary English Tuition
Lower secondary Writing Series 1 – E02: Narrative writing
There are a number of ways that the teachers at Thinking Factory help their Secondary English students on their journey to becoming good essay writers. What makes a good essay? In this video, our Secondary Read more…
PSLE Oral
List of 2020 Preliminary Oral Themes Part 1
2020 Preliminary Oral Themes Part 1 Half of my P6 students have completed their Prelim oral before the July break and the other half will do theirs this week. Like every year, my students have Read more…
P5 Paper2 components
Common Grammar Mistakes Series: ‘A number’ vs ‘The number’
P5 Common Grammar Mistakes Series: ‘A number’ vs ‘The number’ Do you wonder why we sometimes use a singular verb for ‘number’ and sometimes a plural verb? If you do wonder, this is the grammatical Read more…
Lower Secondary English Tuition
Lower secondary Writing Series1 – E01: How to analyse essay questions
Have you been told by your teacher the importance of reading your essay question carefully and analyzing it before diving into writing it? 4 common genres of essay writing There are 4 common genres of Read more…
P5 Paper2 components
Common grammar mistakes series: subject-verb-agreement
Common subject-verb-agreement mistakes made by upper Primary students – ‘all of’ & ‘some of’ Have you been using ‘all of’ and ‘some of’ correctly? Do you get confused about which is the subject when you Read more…