Programme Overview
In P4, students who relied on pattern-spotting or memorising start to struggle. The gap between rote learners and those who truly understand the language becomes obvious.
Curion’s P4 programme targets this gap. Our structured Skill Pillars system focuses on deep concept mastery, so that students instinctively know how to score when faced with an exam.
Here is an example of a P4 lesson, to demonstrate how our skills-based approach helps with PSLE outcomes:
Reported Speech, Tense Control, and Vocabulary Precision
- Students correct common errors when converting direct to reported speech
- Focus on punctuation, tense shift, and pronoun accuracy
- Transformation practice:
- Direct to indirect (statements)
- Direct to indirect (questions: wh- and yes/no forms)
- Immediate feedback and live correction
- Grammar questions embedded in story-driven contexts
- Students apply rule-based learning to real exam-style items
- Focused mini-drills on capitalisation, article usage, punctuation
- Mimics PSLE Editing task structure
- Contextualised vocabulary from a mystery-themed story (e.g., confronted, summoned, disguise)
- Activities include cloze, sentence creation, and synonym matching
- Students retell a dialogue using reported speech accurately, reinforcing oral clarity and grammar mastery
Reported Speech (statement and question forms)
Grammar MCQ / Editing / Synthesis
Essential for recognising and correcting speech transformation, common in synthesis and grammar tasks
Transforming direct to indirect speech
Synthesis / Editing
Trains students to accurately handle punctuation, tense, and pronoun shifts
Pronoun shifting and subject-verb agreement
Editing / Grammar Cloze
Prevents common errors involving unclear references and mismatched verb forms
Tense conversion (past/present)
Grammar Cloze / Comprehension Cloze
Strengthens awareness of tense sequence, especially in dialogue-heavy texts
Vocabulary MCQ / Comprehension Cloze
Prepares students for high-frequency vocabulary found in upper primary comprehension tasks
Editing-style error detection (capitalisation, punctuation, article usage)
Editing
Mirrors PSLE-style Editing for Spelling and Grammar task
- Reported speech mastery directly improves dialogue writing, a key feature in narrative compositions.
- Accurate pronoun usage and tense control result in smoother, clearer storytelling.
- Exposure to vivid vocabulary (e.g., disguised, protested, interrogated) enriches students’ descriptive writing and characterisation.
- Understanding of reported speech deepens ability to retell events or reframe what others said, useful for stimulus-based oral discussions. Vocabulary learnt in context supports expressive responses and confident paraphrasing.
Rather than drilling papers, we focus on the skills required to do well. Book a free trial class if you would like to see the benefits of our system!