The primary school in Singapore is a six-year program, and the children in the primary school stage are between 7- 12 years old, which is the prime time to carry out English training. According to the official words of Singapore, the ambition of English education in Singapore's primary schools is to strive for "making 20% of children's English reach the best international level."

Singapore advocates elite education, and most parents have a strong complex of prestigious schools. Traditionally, top students in Singapore strive to go to Oxford or Cambridge for undergraduate studies. For example, Li Shengwu, the grandson of Singaporean Senior Minister Lee Kuan Yew, went to the Department of Philosophy, Politics and Economics of Foxford University to study as an undergraduate. Of course, in recent years, more and more Singaporean students have gone to study in the United States.

In Singapore, children have a lot to learn, and English is just one of them. Therefore, Singaporean parents pay special attention to their children's English learning efficiency. For example, although primary schools in Singapore attach importance to English, many parents ask tutors to guide their children to read "a whole book" intensively in order to let their children gain language freedom as soon as possible. Many top students in Singapore only read those "essays" when they do their English homework after school. The rest of the time, almost no longer contact with "essays", but under the guidance of a special person to read "a whole book" intensively.

Singapore's practice is inspired by American primary school reading education. American teachers often give them "a whole book" reading assignments. After reading a whole book, children need to write down their reflections. Sometimes, American teachers will ask students questions about the details of the book, which "forces" students to read the whole book carefully, instead of just searching an outline of the story from the Internet to cope with errands.

However, in China, we don't pay much attention to reading "a whole book". We always make children read "articles" with great care. We like to let children read an article and then write down the general idea and central idea of the paragraph.