Guidance on Studying the Lesson of "Canh dong hoa" in the Vietnamese Language curriculum of Grade 5

Guidance on Studying the Lesson of "Canh dong hoa" in the Vietnamese Language curriculum of Grade 5

The new school year has started on September 5, 2024. Most schools in Vietnam have already organized opening ceremonies according to Decision 2045/QD-BGDDT in 2024, issued by the Ministry of Education and Training, establishing the time frame for the 2024 - 2025 school year nationwide for preschool, general education, and continuing education.

Therefore, as students officially enter the new school year, they need to prepare their lessons before coming to class. The lesson on 'Nouns, Verbs, and Adjectives' in grade 5 Vietnamese is one of the first lessons that grade 5 students will learn.

Parents can refer to the following instructions to help their children study quickly and effectively:

*Note: Information is for reference only./.

Guidance on Studying the Lesson of "Canh dong hoa" in the Vietnamese Language curriculum of Grade 5​ (Image from the Internet)

What are the fundamental stages when teaching Vietnamese Language for grade 5 in Vietnam?

According to Section I of the Appendix to the General Education Program for Literature Subjects issued with Circular 32/2018/TT-BGDDT, the characteristics of teaching Vietnamese language in grade 5 are as follows:

Vietnamese is a subject within the field of Language and Literature education, taught from Grade 1 to Grade 12. In primary school, this subject is called Vietnamese; in middle school and high school, it is named Literature.

Vietnamese is a functional and aesthetic-humanist subject; it provides students with a means of communication, forming the basis for studying all other subjects and educational activities in school. Additionally, it is an essential tool for teaching students about the high values of culture, literature, and national language; fostering healthy emotions, humanistic values, and compassionate living.

Through language texts and vibrant artistic images in literary works, by engaging in reading, writing, speaking, and listening activities, Literature plays a significant role in helping students develop and mature essential qualities and core competencies to live effectively and continuously learn throughout their lives.

The contents of the Vietnamese Language subject are comprehensive, including cultural, ethical, philosophical knowledge that interlinks with many other subjects and educational activities such as History, Geography, Art, Citizenship Education, Foreign Languages, Natural and Social Sciences, Experiential Activities, Career Orientation,… The subject is also closely related to real life; it helps students become more interested and attached to daily life, relate, and solve emerging practical issues.

The core content of the subject includes fundamental, essential knowledge and skills about Vietnamese and literature, meeting the standards for students' qualities and competencies at each educational level, and is divided into two stages: basic education stage and career-oriented education stage.

Basic Education Stage: The program is designed according to key themes corresponding to the skills of reading, writing, speaking, and listening. Vietnamese and literary knowledge are integrated into the teaching process of reading, writing, speaking, and listening. The materials are selected and arranged according to the students' receptive capacity at each educational level.

The goal of this stage is to help students master the use of Vietnamese to effectively communicate in life and perform well in other subjects and educational activities; form and develop literary competence, a manifestation of aesthetic competence; simultaneously foster thoughts, emotions to grow their souls and character.

Career-Oriented Education Stage: The program consolidates and develops the outcomes of the basic education stage, helping students enhance language competency and literary competency, especially in receiving literary texts; improve skills in creating argumentative texts, and information texts of greater complexity in content and writing techniques; provide essential knowledge about literary history, literary theory that is practical for reading and writing about literature; continue to nurture thoughts, emotions, souls, and character for students to become responsible citizens.

Additionally, each year, students with a social sciences and humanities orientation can choose to study specific thematic topics.

These thematic topics aim to enhance knowledge about literature and language, practical application skills, meeting students' interests, needs, and career orientations.

Thus, it can be seen that in primary school, this subject is called Vietnamese; in middle school and high school, it is referred to as Literature.

Therefore, this is a fundamental stage when teaching grade 5 Vietnamese, where the program builds upon the primary themes corresponding to reading, writing, speaking, and listening skills.

Vietnamese and literary knowledge are integrated into the teaching of reading, writing, speaking, and listening. The materials are selected and arranged fit the students' receptive capabilities at each educational level.

What are the target objectives when teaching grade 5 Vietnamese to students?

As per sub-item 2, Section III of the Appendix to the General Education Program for Literature Subjects issued with Circular 32/2018/TT-BGDDT, the target objectives when teaching grade 5 Vietnamese to students are:

- To help students form and develop essential qualities with specific expressions: love for nature, family, homeland; awareness of origins; appreciation for beauty, goodness, and having healthy emotions; interest in study, eagerness to work; honesty in studying and in life; responsibility towards oneself, family, society, and the surrounding environment.

- To initially help students form general abilities, develop linguistic competency in all reading, writing, speaking, and listening skills at a basic level: reading correctly and fluently; understanding the main content and information of the text; relating and comparing outside of the text; writing correctly with punctuation and grammar; writing some sentences, paragraphs, short texts (mainly narrative and descriptive texts); speaking clearly; listening and understanding others' opinions.

Developing literary competency with requirements to differentiate between poetry and prose, know how to read poetry and prose; recognize the beauty of artistic language; have imagination, understand and be moved by the beauty and goodness of people and the world expressed in literary texts.

DOWNLOAD General Education Program for Literature Subjects issued with Circular 32/2018/TT-BGDDT.