SYLLABUS EXAMPLE

I. GENERAL INFORMATION OF THE COURSE AND THE TEACHER

Course Title: English

Grade: First Grade
Professor:
Email:

II. COURSE DESCRIPTION:

This is an elementary level English course that aims at developing students listening,
speaking, reading, writing, and language communication skills. Attention will be given to
vocabulary learning strategies and grammar.

III. COURSE OBJECTIVES

As outcome of this course, students will:

1. Become ready through listening, speaking, reading, writing, and language

communication skills.
2. Feel comfortable expressing ideas, feelings, and opinions in English.
3. Develop a sense of success, security, and achievement as they learn to improve
English language skills.
4. Use English in a variety of real-life situations.

III. FIRST GRADE SKILLS TO BE ASSESSED

1. Listening And Speaking:

a. Use language to ask and answer questions and interact with peers.
b. Listen and participate in rhymes, songs, chants, etc.
c. Respond to conversations using grade appropriate vocabulary.
d. Ask and answer yes or no questions.
e. Ask and answer the 5 W’s.
2. Reading
a. Determine main idea or themes of a text.
b. Summarize key supporting details and ideas of a text.
c. Describe characters, setting, and major events in a text using key details.
d. Recognize common types of texts, identify the front cover, back cover, and
title page of a book, and story organization (beginning, middle, and end).
e. Identify the story or text point of view.
f. Use illustrations (picture cues) to identify story details.

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 g. Categorize similarities and differences between characters and details within
a text.
h. Compare and contrast different texts.
i. Read nursery rhymes, folk tales, and other texts.
j. Recognize phonemes, syllables and spoken words.
k. Decoding
l. Encoding
m. Recognize long and short sounds (five major vowels).
3. Language
a. Recognize the features of a sentence
b. Capitalizing the first word
c. Periods
d. Capitalizing
i. I
ii. Months and days
iii. Special names
e. Common and proper nouns
f. Singular and plural nouns
g. Verbs, verb be: am, is and are
h. Simple sentences
i. Pronouns
j. Simple present tense
k. Type of sentences
l. Word order
m. Adjectives
n. Sight words
o. Prefixes
p. Compound words
4. Writing:
a. Recognize the distinguishing features of a sentence (e.g., first word,
capitalization, ending punctuation).
b. Write simple sentences and use illustrations to express opinion.
c. Write different type of texts.
d. Demonstrate understanding of word relationships and differences in word
meanings.

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 IV. EVALUATION

At the end of each quarter, students will be evaluated by the following:

i. Assessment
ii. Assignments
iii. Book
iv. Daily Class: Attendance, Participation, Behavior
v. Notebook
vi. Oral Reports
vii. Quizzes
viii. Short Test
ix. Workbook
x. Others

Test and Evaluation Reposition or Replacement:

               The student is entitled to be granted the opportunity to retake, make
examinations or special work when there is a substantial reason for his or her absences.
You will be offered the opportunity to retake the evaluation or replace student’s
assignment with another if the parent or guardian contacts the teacher or school within
ten ( 10) consecutive working days or within five (5) days after return to school. If the
student, parent or guardian fails to comply with these requirements the student will
receive zero (0) score in its review, project or assignment as stipulated in the Internal
Regulations of the Academy.

V. REFERENCES

 Scholastic (2013). Grammar builder (First Edition Ed.). Singapore, Singapore:

Scholastic Education International.
Scholastic Study-Smart Grammar Builder-Level 1.
 Teaching Resources & Lesson Plans | Teachers Pay Teachers. (n.d.). Retrieved May
22, 2016, from https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/
 Pinterest. (n.d.). Retrieved May 22, 2016, from https://www.pinterest.com/
 Other references

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