Five-Minute Activities for Young Learners

The content of the activities
The activities focus on the four macro skills, listening, speaking, reading and
writing, and the ‘building blocks’ of language, vocabulary, pronunciation
and grammar. They also focus on developing learning strategies, for
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example, certain decoding strategies to enhance reading skills,
pronunciation strategies to aid clear oral language, and higher-order
thinking skills (such as categorising, classifying, defining, explaining,
drawing conclusions, hypothesising, making connections between ideas, and
considering multiple viewpoints or conflicting views) to improve children’s
thinking abilities.