German Subject Curricula
German at the Johann-Hinrich-Fehrs-School
German lessons at the Johann-Hinrich-Fehrs-School lay the foundation for reading, writing, speaking, and listening, and it is a central subject for the children’s success in school and in everyday life. The aim is to enable students to use language safely, creatively, and consciously, and to promote their enjoyment of language and texts in the long term.
The lessons are based on the subject requirements of the state of Schleswig-Holstein and are continuously developed. The basis is the school-internal subject curriculum, which guarantees structured, child-friendly and differentiated German lessons.
Central Content and Focuses
German lessons are integrative, action-oriented and close to real life. Central learning areas are:
• Reading and writing
• Introduction of letters and sounds
• Syllable work and sound analysis
• Building reading skills from word to sentence and to text
• Reading comprehension
• Writing words, sentences and short texts
• Examining language
• Parts of speech (nouns, verbs, adjectives)
• Singular and plural
• Articles, tenses and simple grammatical structures
• Spelling strategies (e.g. Dehnungs-h, ck, tz)
• Speaking and listening
• Telling experiences and stories
• Following rules of conversation
• Asking and answering questions
• Presenting own work results
• Understanding and designing texts
• Reading and understanding stories, non-fiction texts and comics
• Writing arithmetic stories, profiles, descriptions and short texts
• Creative products such as lapbooks, posters or reading boxes
Linguistic and interdisciplinary skills
In addition to subject-specific content, German lessons specifically promote:
• phonological awareness
• vocabulary building and language development
• concentration and fine motor skills
• organization of the workplace
• social skills and conversation culture
Learning with diverse methods
The lessons are action- and production-oriented. The children work with, among other things:
• the Einsterns Schwester textbook
• Sound gestures according to the Kiel reading structure
• diverse materials (e.g. tactile letters, initial sound pictures, games)
• digital media and learning apps such as ANTON
Differentiation is a central teaching principle: All children are individually supported through different learning materials, weekly plans, additional offers, reading mentors as well as support and challenge measures.
Aim of German lessons
The aim is for students to use language safely, creatively and confidently, to understand texts and to be able to express their own thoughts clearly – as a basis for successful learning in all subjects and for active participation in school and social life.
