Developed by Singapore Centre for Chinese Language, the “Bridging Picture-based Composition and Topic-based Composition Writing” teaching toolkit provides useful supplementary teaching materials for teachers of upper primary schools and lower secondary schools. It can also be used for school-based curriculum.

This toolkit focuses on teaching writing from perspectives of content and structure. It aims to help students mobilize their prior knowledge and experience in writing picture-based composition and apply them to topic-based composition writing. With this toolkit, teachers can systematically teach topic-based composition writing, and target at students’ difficulties to guide them through writing compositions.

The toolkit comprises 6 units, each including lesson plans, PowerPoint slides and activity sheets. In addition, each lesson plan is accompanied by a detailed explanation of the design rationale behind the lesson plan and teaching activities. Teachers can also refer to the theory, strategy and instructional design in the toolkit to better understand the basic teaching principles.