This document analyzes the literature curriculum for years 5 and 6 in Malaysian classrooms. For year 5, it outlines the main literature components as stories, poems, rhymes, and songs. Common activities for stories include role-playing, rebuses, and guided writing. For poems, activities involve matching sentences to pictures and role-playing. Rhyme activities focus on repetition and saying rhyming words quickly. In year 6, story activities include responding to pictures and writing reviews. Poem activities involve understanding characters and settings. Rhyme activities include matching and identifying rhyming words.

1. Analysis of Lit. Curriculum in
Malaysia Classroom (Year 5-6)
Prepared by:
Afif
Shahfiq
Erna
Dayang
Faizatun
Sheyreen

2. YEAR 5

3. Literature Components and Activities

4. LIT. COMPONENTS SK/SJK
STORIES -mostly fairytales
-emphasis on moral values
-culture wise –Malaysian (SK), /Western,
indians Chinese (SJK)
-repetition in story (pg. 79)
-activities
1) Role-play
2) Rebus
3) Drills
4) Guided writing
5) Match dialogues with pictures

5. POEMS -read and enjoy the poem
-1 stanza poem
-understand the poem
-activities- match sentences to pictures. (in
order of events)
-role-play
RHYMES -repetition of last words
-2 stanzas, 3 lines, 2
words/line
-activities- say out rhyming words (quickly/clearly)

6. songs -respond to songs (lyrics)
-activities- role play (based
on the content of the
song), write short forms of words (she is, she’s),
read dialogues)
-say out words (words with alliteration)
-find the meaning of the words

7. Literature Components
YEAR 6

8. Story
• Respond to pictures
• Respond to story
• Understand the characters and their
characteristics

9. • Understand the use of tenses in stories
• Relate stories to real events
• Activities : write review
: mix and match
: jigsaw puzzle
: guided writing/composition (based
on pictures)
: complete the story
: create riddles from the story
: use suitable proverbs

10. Poem
• Understanding the poem
• Sorting out the characters in the poem (poems
are basically on animals)
• Determining the setting portrayed in the poem
(where? In the jungle? Etc…)
• Activities : answer questions based on the poem

11. Rhymes
• Able to read rhymes
• Activities : match rhyming words
: identify rhyming words (fill in the
blank)
: saying rhymes aloud