ENGLISH PAPER SYLLABUS: WRITING

 ENGLISH PAPER ONE SYLLABUS WRITING

FORM ONE WRITING

1. Handwriting

1. Legibility and tidiness

2. Spelling

1. Spelling rules:

3. Building sentence skills and paragraphing

1. Writing clear and correct sentences

2. Structure of the paragraph. - Topic sentences Supporting - Sentences - Clincher sentences - Sequencing of ideas - Unity in paragraphs

4.      Punctuation

1. Capitalization

2. Final punctuation marks

3. Commas

5. Personal writing

1. Diaries

2. Addresses

3. Packing lists

6. Social Writing:

1. Informal letters

7. Study Writing

1. Making notes

2. Taking notes

8. Creative Writing

1. Imaginative compositions

2. Poems

9. Institutional Writing

1. Public notices

2. Inventories

 

FORM TWO WRITING

1. Spelling

1. Commonly misspelt words

2. Building sentence skills and paragraphing

1. Sentence variety; using simple, compound and complex sentences

2. Devices of developing paragraphs

3. Giving reasons/examples comparing and

4. Contrasting using idiomatic expressions using facts/statistics

5. Using rhetorical Questions

3. Punctuation

1. Quotation marks

2. Apostrophe

3. Hyphen

4. Study Writing

1. Summaries

2. Descriptive essays

5. Creative Writing

1. Imaginative compositions

2. Dialogues

6. Institutional Writing

1. Letters

2. Posters

3. Advertisements

7. Personal Writing

1. Personal journals

2. Shopping lists

8. Social Writing

1. Invitations

9. Public Writing

1. Telephone messages

2. Filling forms

3. Letters of apology

 

FORM THREE WRITING

1. Building Sentence Skills and Paragraphing

1. Cohesion in paragraphs

2. Using transitional words and phrases

3. Choice of words

4. Recurrent words (different words that refer to the same idea in the paragraph)

2. Punctuation

1. Colon

2. Semi-colon

3. Dash

4. Parenthesis

3. Personal writing

1. Reminders

2. Personal journals

4. Social writing

1. Notes of thanks, congratulations and condolences

2. Telegrams

5. Public writing

1. Letter application

6. Study writing

1. Synopsis

2. Argumentative essays

7. Creating writing

1. Imaginative compositions

2. Plays

3. Short stories

8. Institutional Writing

1. Notification of meetings

2. Agenda and minute writing

3. Memoranda

 

4. WRITING

1. Building sentence skills and paragraphing

1. Paraphrasing

2. Punctuation

1. Devices for presenting quotations and headings

3. Personal writing

1. Recipes

4. Social writing

1. E-mails

2. Fax

3. Instructions to family and friends

5. Public writing

1. Letters of inquiry

2. Letters of request

6. Study writing

1. Reviews

2. Expository writing

3. Questionnaires

7. Creative writing

1. Imaginative compositions

2. Autobiographies

3. Biographies

8. Institutional writing

1. Curriculum vitae

2. Speeches