All About Teaching and Learning Phonics

[tamarind]

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I would also recommend the Sesame Street dvd's. Very catchy tunes and also educational.

Tamarind, isn't your girl going to be bored with the Stellar books since she is already such an advanced reader?[/quote]pea,
Where can we find the Sesame Street DVDs in Singapore ?

I was worried that my girl will feel bored in school, but she has not complained. She likes the music, arts, and sports lessons very much, so she likes going to school.

I spoke to my girl's English teacher, she said that although the books are very easy for my girl, she still pays attention, and spends her time quietly observing the other classmates. I let her read more interesting and challenging books at home so she can continue to learn more.

[tamarind]

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I admire parents like Tarimand who really dedicate time to teach their kids phonics. [/quote]mummy of 2,
The fact is that even when I put in a lot of effort to teach at home, my boy still cannot fully understand 100% of what I teach. But so long as he knows about 70%, I am happy enough

[mummy of 2]

Hi tamarind


At least your kids can read on their own

I hope to achieve that, but as I have just started on readers with DS1, I think it will be a long time before he can read books by Roald Dahl, though I have already bought them in advance

[starz]

Hi Tamarind,


My girl is still reading Ladybird Level 4a, its been a slow progress as my schedule is real busy. When is the best time to get the Roald Dahl book? as in must reach a certain level of ladybird level?

btw my girl has just started her phonics lesson at montessori. check w u. due to she is not feeling well, she has missed 2 lessons. is there any makeup or teacher will revise? not sure she will lag anot?

[tamarind]

starz:

Hi Tamarind,


My girl is still reading Ladybird Level 4a, its been a slow progress as my schedule is real busy. When is the best time to get the Roald Dahl book? as in must reach a certain level of ladybird level?

btw my girl has just started her phonics lesson at montessori. check w u. due to she is not feeling well, she has missed 2 lessons. is there any makeup or teacher will revise? not sure she will lag anot?

starz,
I don't think they allow make up lessons. You can check with the teacher.

Kids who complete level 10 or 11 of the Ladybird series, will be able to read any Roald Dahl books. Though there will be about 5 to 10% of the words that they don't know, so it is best that we ask them to read out loud to us so that we can help them. Otherwise, they may not understand the stories at all. Also, start with the shorter ones like the Enormous Crocodile.

[maltbibi]

Hi Tamarind


Do you have books to recommend that suit a 4 year old girl that can read P&J book 5a?

Just an update on her P&J. Her progress was slow as we stopped for a while at book 3a. Recently she has developed interest and at least can read one or two pages a day.

Thanks.

[mummy of 2]

tamarind:

Kids who complete level 10 or 11 of the Ladybird series, will be able to read any Roald Dahl books. Though there will be about 5 to 10% of the words that they don't know, so it is best that we ask them to read out loud to us so that we can help them. Otherwise, they may not understand the stories at all. Also, start with the shorter ones like the Enormous Crocodile.

Showed DS1 The enormous Crocodile, and he said \"So many words\" :!:

Guess he's not ready for it yet

[sean wife]

HI Tamarind,


Like many mummies here, I am also getting my kids (coming to 2.5 yrs old) to read the P&J series based on you good recommendation. I would say they have been pretty co-operative when motivated with their favourite food and can ‘read’ level 5 now. I say ‘read’ because although they can technically read out the words, I am not sure if they can really understand the storyline. They can recognize the words mainly based on sight reading and I think they can remember new words quite fast (but tend to get confused with they, the, there…).

For phonics, they learned their letter sounds mainly based on the Leapfrog…tried to teach basic blending but not sure whether they can get it or not…for e.g. when I asked them to pick out the words, cat, bat, hat etc, I am not sure if they pick the correct one based on the phonic way or sight word way.

At this point of time, do you think I should continue them on P&J higher level (learning the words mostly based on sight reading) or I should stop for a while and practice more blending first? If they learn more and more words through sight reading, will they still want to learn through blending…?

Thanks for your advice

[siak]

sean wife:

HI Tamarind,


Like many mummies here, I am also getting my kids (coming to 2.5 yrs old) to read the P&J series based on you good recommendation. I would say they have been pretty co-operative when motivated with their favourite food and can ‘read’ level 5 now. I say ‘read’ because although they can technically read out the words, I am not sure if they can really understand the storyline. They can recognize the words mainly based on sight reading and I think they can remember new words quite fast (but tend to get confused with they, the, there…).

Sean wife, your kids at 2.5 years can read level 5 now, very impressed :salute:

My younger girl (now at 3 year and 4 months) seems not interested in P&J. She just finished at 3B, but everytime I ask her to read, she does not show her interest. She will take her own sweet time to read, and with her soft voice, and she tends to do funny funny thing while she is reading it. I see her like that also feel very agitated. :x But when she reads chinese books, she seems very happy and quickly takes the book and read out loud.

I guess P&J story is too boring for her.

[sean wife]

Hi Siak,


Their level of interest varies…sometimes very soft and draggy and funny tone also. But so far, whipping out their favourite pokky stick usually works wonders…they even want to use the stick to point to the words and read…but seriously, i m not sure i am on the right track as there seems to be problems also if the kids recognizes too many words just by sight reading alone…??