All About Grooming & Encouraging Good Reading Habits

[Charmaine_chong]

Hquek,


Thanks for the tips.

Will be more careful in joining spree.

[optimistforum]

tamarind:

optimistforum,

I think Singaporean parents have a lot to learn from you too Do feel free to share more about English is taught in UK, I am sure many parents are very interested to know.

My girl will be going to P1 next year. Her school is using the Stellar program.

http://www.acsjunior.sg/docs/Files/STELLAR%20Program%20Supplementary%20Handout.pdf

My understanding of the program is that they will be using story books to teach the language. It is like what cafelatte wrote :
Most current P1&P2 are having English taught with thematic big-story-books with related worksheets

My girl's school also use a grammar textbook.

My own approach at home is similar to the Stellar program. But I think what my kids are reading are much more interesting , they are reading all the children's classics like Charlotte's Web, The adventures of Pinocchio, Alice in Wonderland, the three tales of My Father's Dragon, Little House on the Prairie, Roald Dahl books, etc, all original and unabridged. I believe that there is so much that a child can learn from reading the classics, not only grammar, vocabulary, and the wonderful style of writing, but also knowledge and life experiences like life and death, love, friendship, hardships, poverty, compassion, etc.

My P1 son tried some of the online content at http://www.stellarliteracy.sg/cos/o.x?c=/wbn/pagetree&func=view&rid=20794 before going to bed last night, and thoroughly enjoyed it. It was challenging and great fun.

Can anyone recommend any online websites with games and worksheets for K1 and K2?

[JJmom2008]

I m having a hard time trying to read together with my 18mth old gal. She won't let me have the book, she will snatch the book from me & just love to flip thru the book herself & after awhile lost interest in it...sigh


We never get to finish reading a book together with her sitting on my lap.

Help...

[Charmaine_chong]

Hi JJmom,


Yap. I have the same experience with my 21mths old girl. She is getting more and more active. Just wanna to play with me.

When i take the book out, her first reaction is " no no i dont want book". She would copy what we say. Most of the times, with my son around is even worst, no one pay attention. I need to do it one to one.

Mostly spending a lot of time just to catch her attention. For me, when she eats or when my son isn’t around, eventhough she isn’t pay attention, i will sit down there and read out. My objective is to show her "i am reading". Hope she will learn.

Take it easy! Anyway only 2 yo.

[verykiasu2010]

in light of the recent debate on MT, how come there is no kiasuparents to "bother" on early reading for MT books ? (or i miss it some where ?)

[dimsum]

verykiasu2010:

in light of the recent debate on MT, how come there is no kiasuparents to \"bother\" on early reading for MT books ? (or i miss it some where ?)

You can refer to another thread \"Teaching Chinese at Home\".

[verykiasu2010]

dimsum:

verykiasu2010:

in light of the recent debate on MT, how come there is no kiasuparents to \"bother\" on early reading for MT books ? (or i miss it some where ?)

You can refer to another thread \"Teaching Chinese at Home\".

Thanks

[kids_r_innocent]

Hi...


Anyone is able to advise how we can choose \"good english books\" for our children to read when there are so many out there in the market/library. Especially so for those books with good contents and yet suffice pictures to engage the young readers.

[jedamum]

kids_r_innocent:

Hi...


Anyone is able to advise how we can choose \"good english books\" for our children to read when there are so many out there in the market/library. Especially so for those books with good contents and yet suffice pictures to engage the young readers.

hi kids_r_innocent,
personally i find it hard to gauge how good is the book cos different genre of books appeal to different readers' appetite and standard (eg while some people raved about Murderous Math, i have yet to get my boy to read beyond the first chapter maybe cos it is too advance/dry for him; eg while my boy loves Horrible Science, he does not like Horrible Geography as much etc). 'good books' are also subjective cos some parents are receptive to humor or comics while others prefer that their kids read classics.
that's why i find it very fruitful for parents to share in a forum like this so that parents who do not have the luxury of time to browse every shelves in the library can just zoom into the specific 'recommended books' and gauge if it suits their child.
MHO.

PS: i think you should update your child's details (at least the birth year) so that parents can make better recommendation/advice based on your kids' age.

PS: i usually get very excited when i hit the nail by selecting the genre of books that my ds1 likes cos i can relying on other titles in the same series to tide over the next few weeks of reading sessions and then it is back to square one in search of engaging books again. :frustrated:

[jedamum]

RE 39 Clues


any idea if must start from Book 1? can stop halfway or must go on-and-on...? are the cards essential in forming part of the reading experience?
TIA.