Singapore · Primary 4 · Continuous Writing

Primary 4 English

Three pieces that work together: a twenty-week course built on what the marker actually rewards, a 600-item word list to stock the cupboard, and a practice desk that keeps the exam clock so nobody has to nag about it.

The three pieces

Start with the course. The word list feeds it daily; the practice desk is where the writing actually happens.

One

The Composition Ladder

Twenty weeks in four units, each closing with a timed mock. Marking bands in plain words, the eight faults that lose marks, and a script for how to hand a composition back.

Open the course → Two

Sixty Days of Words

Ten a day: five idioms, five describing words, grouped by situation. Every item has a meaning and a model sentence. Tick off each day as she writes with it.

Open the word list → Three

The Writing Desk

Twenty-four picture prompts, a five-box plan, the 7/35/8 exam clock, a live word count and the six-point check. Everything saves to a portfolio.

Open the desk →

What a week looks like

About eighty minutes across three sittings, plus ten minutes a day on the word list. Short and frequent beats one long Sunday session.

Daily · 10 minThe day’s ten words. Read aloud in the morning, recall at night. Copy them into the Word Bank notebook by hand.
Session A · 25 minLearn the week’s skill. Read it together in the course, look at the examples, try it once with help available.
Session B · 15 minDrill it. Short and mechanical, on her own. No story required — this is where the skill becomes automatic.
Session C · 40 minWrite at the desk. Odd weeks a paragraph, even weeks a full composition. Five times in twenty weeks, on the exam clock.

The one rule that matters most. Mark two things, never twenty: the week’s skill and one recurring error. A page covered in red gets read once and never reread.

Everything saves in this browser only. Nothing is uploaded anywhere and no account is needed. If she switches device or the browser data is cleared, the ticks and the portfolio go with it — the practice desk has a download button for exactly that reason.