The Oxford Successful English series provides comprehensive curriculum coverage and all key skills areas are addressed. The weighting and pacing of each skill area is according to the NCAPS. Teachers can choose to follow the course as is, or adapt and tailor it to their specific classroom needs.


Assessment


Opportunities for formal assessment are provided for each term and represent the written formal assessment requirements as prescribed by the NCAPS. Teachers are able to use the formal assessment programme as is, or adapt it to the specific needs of their class.


The Oxford Successful English course for English First Additional Language Grades 1–3


Oxford Successful English Grades 1–3 will help learners develop a high level of English proficiency so that they are ready to use English as the Language of Learning and Teaching by Grade 4. Oxford Successful English Grades 1–3


supports the policy of additive bilingualism, assuming that learners will learn basic literacy skills in their home language and then transfer these skills to English. For example, learners will learn phonics in their home language and then apply their knowledge when they learn English. They will then learn those letter–sound relationships that are different in English. Learners will also learn to read in their home language and then they will apply these reading skills when they read in English.


The components of Oxford Successful English


Grade 1 For the teacher


• Teacher‟s Guide with Poster


• Four Big Books (for Shared reading)


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• Teacher‟s Guide with Poster


• Four Big Books (for Shared reading)


For the learner


• Learner‟s Book • Workbook • Four Readers (for Group and Paired/Independent reading)


• Learner‟s Book • Workbook • Four Readers (for Group and Paired/Independent reading)


Using the poster


You can use the double-sided poster supplied with this Teacher‟s Guide at any time for reading and speaking. There are many ways in which you can use the poster: •


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for practising naming things in English: cars and shops, for example. for giving directions.


for identifying places on the map.


for word matching. Write a word on the card and get the learners to come up and stick the card in the right place.


to do phonics: learners can name an object on the poster with the street scene and then read and say the beginning sound(s) or rhyme for each word.


for writing: learners can write a sentence or paragraph about the poster.


for drawing: learners can respond to the poster by drawing pictures of a street scene from their own village, town or city.


What else do you and the learners need?


• An exercise book for each child for written activities


• An exercise book for each child to make a personal dictionary


• Cardboard to make simple flash cards and sentence strips


• Scrap paper for drawing and creative work • Crayons, scissors, pencils, etc. • As much additional reading material as possible


• Audio tapes (CDs), DVDs, films and radio programmes in English, if possible.


How Oxford Successful English Grade 3 is organised


Components for the learner and teacher


Oxford Successful English Grade 3 is organised into 16 themes. Four new themes are introduced each term. Each theme provides the context for


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• Teacher‟s Guide with Poster


• Four Big Books (for Shared reading)


• Learner‟s Book • Workbook • Reading Book 1 (for Group and Paired/Independent reading)


• Reading Book 2 (for Group and Paired/Independent reading)


to introduce new words and start off a discussion. Learners can talk about what they see and what the people in the poster, “A busy street”, are doing.


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