Developed by the Singapore Centre for Chinese Language, the “Techniques to Enhance Students’ Topic-examining and Content-conceptualising Ability in Titled Composition” teaching toolkit is designed mainly for Primary 5 Chinese language teachers, but is also a useful tool for Primary 6 and Secondary 1 teachers. It provides teachers with useful supplementary teaching materials and can be used for a school-based curriculum.

The toolkit provides thinking scaffoldings to help train students in topic-examining and content-conceptualizing in titled composition. It guides students to explore how to analyse the titles in order to come up with the relevant topics and materials, and in turn cultivate their awareness of the importance of planning and organising in the writing process.

The toolkit consists of six sets of teaching design, comprising lesson plans, PowerPoint slides, and worksheets as well as thinking diagrams for titled compositions. With sufficient scaffoldings, the toolkit provides a systematic, step-by-step guide to improve the teaching and learning of titled composition writing. The many thinking graphs can help to make the thinking of writing visible. It is a very useful toolkit for Chinese language teachers to teach titled compositions.