Ri Activities For Year 4

Remedial Instruction Programme for Year 4 students
7 Effective Remedial
Instruction Strategies
7 Effective Practices of Remedial Instruction
• Provide clear instruction of literacy components

• Support learners to explicitly develop their communicative competence
• Embed visual and verbal resources in lessons, to support student learning
• Encourage peer-assisted learning opportunities
• Build on students’ home language, culture, and social experiences
• Assess language and literacy challenges, and monitor progress
• Encourage collaborative small-group learning opportunities
(Adapted from National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (2017)

7 effective practices of RI – What, Why, How
• Provide clear instruction of literacy components
What is it?
Explicit instruction is a way to teach skills or concepts to students using
direct, structured instruction. It helps make lessons clear by modeling for
students how to start and succeed on a task and giving them ample time
to practice.
How to do this? Why do we do this?

• Identify a clear, specific objective. • It makes higher-order thinking and
• Break the information into chunks. inquiry-based learning easier.
• Model with clear explanations. • There’s less load on memory.
• Verbalize the thinking process. • Helps students with short attention span
• Provide opportunities to practice. • It allows various degrees of practice
• Give feedback. • Allows you to collect and analyse data
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• Support learners to explicitly develop their communicative competence
What is it?
Communicative competence does not only refer to a language user’s
grammatical knowledge but also social knowledge. It is important to know
when to use language accurately and appropriately in order to reach
communication goals.
How to do this?
Why do we do this?
• Contextualize speaking tasks to
• Activates students' interest to
students' daily life
communicate ideas
• Provide opportunities for students to
• Helps students to express thoughts
engage in role play and information
and opinions
gap activities
• Basic life skill
• Include letter writing, note-taking
and summarizing tasks
• Provide opportunities for group and
individual presentations
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• Embed visual and verbal resources in lessons, to support student learning
What is it?
The use of various methods to help make core content understandable,
manageable and actionable throughout the course of the lesson.

∙ Use short videos, visuals, and graphic • Help students make link between
organizers pieces of information
∙ Scaffolding with vocabulary • A memory aid
∙ Use verbal interactions that clarify • To increase students processing
content. e.g. defining words in opportunities
context; asking right-there questions;
coaching; and conducting
whole-class, small-group, and
partner discussions
5
• Encourage peer-assisted learning opportunities
What is it?
Peer-assisted learning is when students are paired with their
classmates regardless of their levels – with the goal to help each other to
learn.

• Assign pairs of different levels and get • Helps foster a trusting and safe
the more able student to support the learning environment
other • Allows students to take
• Students to maintain a coach-coachee ownership of their learning
relationship • Helps students build their
• Pairs are changed frequently to interpersonal, leadership and
ensure students work on a variety of communication skills
language skills
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• Build on students’ home language, culture, and social experiences
What is it?
The way a student learns and responses in the classroom, has so much to do
with his/her culture and social experiences at home. Therefore, for a student to
learn holistically it is important to draw from their experiences and exposure to
life.

• Provide opportunities for students to • Breaks down barriers in learning
share about their home life • Creates a positive learning
• Use supporting materials that are environment
culturally contextualized • Emotionally prepares students for
• Get the parents involved a better learning experience
• Attempt to understand students • Allows students to make sense of
home language and make links to the learning
language skills being taught
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• Assess language and literacy challenges, and monitor progress
What is it?
Assessments in remedial classrooms are vital to identify the learning
blocks students are experiencing and how best to support them in order
to progress. It also helps teachers evaluate the effectiveness of their
instructions/teaching.

• First decide the type of assessment • Helps the teacher teach
to administer (RCA Tool) effectively
• Based on findings, refer to the RI • Helps student's breakdown
Toolkit and select the appropriate learning barriers
activities to support the student • Supports students' progression
• Monitor student progress (AfL Tools) • Enhances students overall
learning experience
8
• Encourage collaborative small-group learning opportunities
What is it?
The use of small groups to promote student learning. Students are
encouraged to share ideas and help each other learn while sharing
resources and their discoveries.

• Establish groups and assign roles • Allows remedial students ample
• Set clear goals and expectations of time to learn at their own pace
given tasks • Shared learning responsibility
• Differentiate tasks • Provide students opportunities to
• Assess each group on their own communicate
merit • Students are exposed to diversity
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Acknowledgements & References
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (2017) Promoting the Educational Success of Children and
Youth Learning English: Promising Futures. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.
<https://doi.org/10.17226/24677>

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Remedial Instruction Programme for Year 4 students

• Provide clear instruction of literacy components

(Adapted from National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (2017)

How to do this? Why do we do this?

• Support learners to explicitly develop their communicative competence

• Embed visual and verbal resources in lessons, to support student learning

How to do this? Why do we do this?

• Encourage peer-assisted learning opportunities

How to do this? Why do we do this?

• Build on students’ home language, culture, and social experiences

How to do this? Why do we do this?

How to do this? Why do we do this?

• Encourage collaborative small-group learning opportunities

How to do this? Why do we do this?

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