Comparing English Enrichment Programmes

[Mathematica]

Hi. I am also preparing my girl who will be in p1 next year. She needs tuition in English. Mainly to teach grammar rules and creative writing. Small group preferable. Advise pls. Thanks

[zbear]

Mathematica:

Hi. I am also preparing my girl who will be in p1 next year. She needs tuition in English. Mainly to teach grammar rules and creative writing. Small group preferable. Advise pls. Thanks

Hi, will looking for a tutor, can I strongly recommend that you get her to start seriously reading of story books or magazines.

I can assure you that by cultivating a good reading habit, her English will improve by leaps n bounds.

Speaking from my kids' experience.

[autumnbronze]

Concur with zbear!


Speak proper English and read, read and read.

If there is anything else I would have put in focus, that would be spelling of sight words so that they can write simple sentences. But that is also not an issue because they will catch up soon enough.

[sushigal]

No Kumon, No BC.


Get your child to go library this school holidays. Get him to read more story books according to his age. Reading still have to come in if not when he is in secondary, he will suffer even more due to more subjects are in taught in English.

Meanwhile, get him a suitable English tutor. Get a tutor specialised in English alone. Not the 3 subjects tutor. I personally do not believe it that.

[September_21]

you might want to go to this website called grammarly.com to buy the software for checking and editing of the grammar for your child.

[Clarie79]

Hi, anyone heard of The Learning Capsule at clementi? I am sending my girls there for lessons next year, chanced upon their website while searching online. Apparently the founder cum teacher was an ex English teacher from Nanyang Pri and MGS. Saw her teaching materials and was quite impressed with the quality, esp. on the grammar foundation building. Here’s the website to share with you in case you are searching for ex sch teacher as tutor. thelearningcapsule.com

[Green-apple 0]

hquek:

Green-apple:

Dear All,


I have 2 English tutors to consider for P3 kid; a small group home base tutor vs. well known tuition center.

First one's vision is to nurture a love of reading and critical thinking, she helps in long run than just merely doing exam papers.

Second one is well known tuition centre for their creative writing and excellent for paper 2; class room size.

If cost aside; may I hear from your view which one shall I choose for my DC?


TQ

My simple answer will be the one your child learns better from. What's also important is your objective....if you are exam oriented, then your focus should be on that.

Can you share what you meant by the small home based tutor whose vision is sharing love of reading? Like can describe a bit what's done - is it the tutor makes kids read books and write reviews??

(My DS is in lower primary)

Home base tutor
The tutor will get them to buy few popular children literature beginning of the year. She will guide them to deep dive into the book by analyze the author and the content which to cultivate a higher level of thinking and analytical skills. By reading various books; the children will be introduced to types of writing style by difference authors (for creative writing). While they are doing book review at the same time also dedicated to oral-skills. The document base material will be used during the lesson too. With the change in new English syllabus; children are actively involved in stimulus base conversation & public speaking (show and tell). All these required high level of creativity and critical thinking. Paper 2 will be kept as homework.

Well-known center (I signed DS 2 trial lesson)
The establish tuition center allow up to with 10 -15 students, hence the time allocation for in-depth communication of each student is minimum. They have impressive teaching material & good model composition for the kids to copy / memorize. I think this is effective for short term (or we can also let them do the same at home ourselves). Tutor will let the kids do paper 2 after the composition. She will go through the common error with the kids after marking them (really fast she can mark). She tried her very best to focus on each one’s error (but there are 12 of them) she even extended her lesson to 2.5 hours (instead of just 2 hours lesson)…. My son is totally exhausted and scare of going for the 3rd trial.

What do I want for my kid? I would like to see him find joy of reading & learining, happy to go for enrichment (for extra help)! He is actually good in EL and why I still sending him for tuition? Because i belong to the KIASU-PARENT.com

[jedamum]

Green apple

From the way you write, it seems like you are leaning towards the tutor. So problem solved ?

[Green-apple 0]

Thx jademum


I took your suggestion and tried both! My problem solved!

[Groot]

You may want to try The Learning Lab. The teachers teach a few weeks in advance of the MOE syllabus and also provided tips for assessment. Their teachers are usually ex-MOE teachers. 1 dowside is the fees is quite expensive. Be prepared to pay about 3 times more than BC.