PLAN
2. INTRODUCTION
students improvement by ;
2.1 In early July 1994, KPM agreed and approved the proposal of building SMK Air Itam with
an allocation of RM7,861,500. In August 1994, JKR informed JPN Pulau Pinang that Farlim
( M ) Sdn. Bhd. had offered to build SMK Air Itam. SMK Air was completed in December 1995
2.2 At present, there are 35 classes in SMK Air Itam. There are 2 Remove classes, 7 Form 1
classes, 7 Form 2 classes, 7 Form 3 classes , 6 Form 4 classes and 6 Form 5 classes. We have
2.3 The class chosen for the School Support Plan is 5 Science. 5 Science consists of 21
3.1 A pre- test carried out was on Directed Writing and students were required to write a
report. Students were given the question with content points and students wrote the report.
3.2 Students written data was collected and marked and students errors were identified.
3.3 Some gaps were identified from the students written data. The gaps were :
b) vocabulary
c) sentence structure
d) spelling
e) punctuation
b) vocabulary
c) sentence structure
4. DESCRIBING INTERVENTIONS
b) vocabulary
c) sentence structure
Students watched a video on subject- verb agreement. Teacher went through the rules with the
students by giving a few examples. After that, a few good students were asked to come up with
Substitution Table
Substitution table on manila card. Teacher drilled the sentences from the substitution table with
the students. Students formed sentences from the table on their own in their exercise books.
Vocabulary
Word search
Teacher distributed the worksheet on the word search with the vocabulary given.
Some students had the words ( word strips) and others had the meanings of the words. Students with
words searched for the meanings, and then pasted them on the board. Then, they copied the words
4.3 I assessed my students formally by checking their exercises and informally through my conversation
with them.
4.4 Most of the interventions were carried out successfully. It would have been better if the duration
5.2 Students were asked to write a report to the principal. The pre test was also on a report.
5.3 Marked the students scripts and identified the errors. Informed the students about their errors and
5.4 From the analysis, I noticed that many students still made the same mistakes.
5.5 In the post test, students did better compared to the pre test. There was a slight improvement
compared to the pre test. For SVA , there was a 10% improvement. There was a 20% of improvement
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SVA Vocab Sent Struc
6. CONCLUSION
6.1 Yes. There are some new gaps found in the post test which need to be addressed with a further
cycle of interventions. The new gaps found are spelling errors and singular plural nouns.
6.2 This particular approach helps me to be more focussed on the students weaknesses and formulate