Recommended English Books
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Brenda10:
Hi Brenda,
Hi TAS
Yes. It is interesting.
BTW, there are two books in the market trends. Is this book \"Usborne Book of Science Experiments\" refers to the 100 experiments?
Thank you.
Yes that is correct, the other science book also has a lot of science experiments, the difference is in the type of experiments, so both
cover different types.
TAS -
The Alternative Story:
Hi TAS
Hi Brenda,Brenda10:
Hi TAS
Yes. It is interesting.
BTW, there are two books in the market trends. Is this book \"Usborne Book of Science Experiments\" refers to the 100 experiments?
Thank you.
Yes that is correct, the other science book also has a lot of science experiments, the difference is in the type of experiments, so both
cover different types.
TAS
Thank you. Please advise which book is more suitable for P5? -
Brenda10:
Hi Brenda,
Hi TAS
Thank you. Please advise which book is more suitable for P5?
These are some of the books that are suitable for P5
1) Snakehead by Anthony Horowitz
Snakehead is part of a series based on Alex Rider, a 14 year old spy working for the British government. In this story, a criminal
organization, Scropia, is hired to kill 8 celebrities who are hosting
a conference on an island. The person in charge of the assassination
is the head of a powerful Asian snakehead syndicate.
Alex does not want to go on this mission but decides to sign up for it
in the end as he will be working with Ash who is his godfather and knew
his parents. Alex's parents died when he was very young and he has been
wanting to know about them for a long time. His father used to work
as a spy for the British Intelligence too.
Alex has to pretend to be an illegal immigrant to smuggle into the Snakehead's organisation and he also learns a terrible truth about
Ash and his parents at the end.
Very interesting and full of good vocabulary.
*Anthony Horowitz books all tend to be good.
2)
Among the hidden (shadow children series)
Among the imposters
Among the betrayed
Among the enemy
In this series, the story takes place in the future where drastic but terrible
measures have been taken to stop the overpopulation problem.
All families can only have 2 children. If they do have a third child, the
pregnancy has to be terminated. However, Luke Garner is a third child
and his parents have hidden him from the authorities. All his life,
he has to hide in the shadows. He cannot go to school, he cannot go out
and play. He cannot eat with the family. He has to sit in the staircase
just in case anyone spies on them and sees 3 children.
The whole series tracks Luke as he teams up with another shadow child
to try to go against this law but they are arrested and his friend is shot dead. Later on, he is forced to take another identity and he goes
to school using that identity and there he finds more shadow children
using fake identities and the series ends with him helping to bring
freedom for the shadow children.
It is a gripping read.
3) The House of Scorpion by Nancy Farmer
This is an award-winning book with fascinating characters and great action. In this story, Matteo Alacran, a druglord, owns a mini empire
where the menial tasks are done by 'eejits' people in whose brains
computer chips have been installed to make them docile and
perfect workers. Alacran has lived for 140 years with the help of
clones. He destroys their intelligence at birth but uses their organs
when his fail. Matt is a clone that has been bred for this purpose.
However, he has been spared and his intelligence is not taken.
He is first caged like an animal and then pampered and educated because
he is Alacran's favourite. Later, when he learns his fate, he escapes with
the help of his bodyguard and later returns to take his rightful place
and change his country.
Where to get them: Most bookstores/libraries.
We also sell them. We are selling them at a discount at our
Night at the Reading Museum event. We are selling
one copy of The House of Scorpion for only $8. The original
cost is about $20.
TAS -
Hi parents,
There is an interesting book for children in primary 5 or 6. It has been
out for a while. It should be available in the bigger bookstores.
We want to recommend it here as not many children seem to know
about it.
The plot is interesting and the writing is quite good.
Numbers2 The Chaos by Rachel Ward
Adam has a secret, he can see numbers foretelling a person's death when
he looks into his or her eyes. His mother also had the same power.
He lives in the countryside but is forced to return to London when floodwaters
rise and threaten to destroy his home in the countryside. When he
is in London, he sees the same date whenever he looks into people's eyes.
What will happen on that date? How can he prevent it from happening?
It is a gripping thriller
TAS -
Hi TAS
Thank you for much for introducing some many wonderful books.
I am interested in Forensic Science and a few books by different authors which come with the creative phrases.
Will finalize the list and do the necessary arrangement with you.
Thank you. :lol: -
Hi Brenda,
No problem, we are glad to be of help.
Do note that all English books that we sell come with a free set of creative writing phrases.
We will be looking forward to your email.
TAS -
Hello TAS
Thanks for recommending all the good books in the forum.My dd has gained alot from it.
Should u have good writers and authors to recommend, do keep me posted…thank you very much.
Regards
Lynn2 -
Hi Tas,
Do you have sample of how the \"free creative writing activities\" look like?
BTW, your blog not updated leh. Do you have upcoming workshops for parents? Any classes for pre-school?
Can PM me? Thanks! :lol: -
Lynn2:
Hi Lynn,Hello TAS
Thanks for recommending all the good books in the forum.My dd has gained alot from it.
Should u have good writers and authors to recommend, do keep me posted....thank you very much.
Regards
Lynn2
No prob Books are our passion, its great to see children picking
up reading through you the parents :celebrate:
We will post more recommendations here from time to time.
TAS -
laughingcat:
Hi laughingcat,Hi Tas,
Do you have sample of how the \"free creative writing activities\" look like?
BTW, your blog not updated leh. Do you have upcoming workshops for parents? Any classes for pre-school?
Can PM me? Thanks! :lol:
The 'free creative writing actvities' held during the Night at the Reading
Museum booksale event will have these components:
1) Vocabulary building (using mnemonic strategies)
Eg:
- Learn the different ways to use the word 'walk'. Instead of
always using 'walk' in their writing, they can use other synonyms.
2 examples of synonyms of 'walk'
(a) Saunter: How to remember the meaning?
sAUNTer- there is the word 'aunt' in the word, and aunties walk
slowly but confidently to the market. Hence 'saunter' means to
walk slowly but confidently.
(b) Trudge: How to remember the meaning?
T-rudge - the 't' stands for 'tired' so 'trudge' means to walk tiredly.
2) Learn how to spell with mnemonics
The next thing about creative writing is that when children can remember
to use good vocabulary, they then get the spelling wrong.
So we break up the words and use mnemonic strategies to help the
children to learn.
Eg:
(a) Diarrhoea: How to remember the spelling?
Di- arr - ho- ea: We tell the children when you want to spell the word,
you break it up and when you are having diarrhoea, you first feel like
dying - DI, then you shout 'arghh! - ARR, then once you are done,
you are so happy you shout 'Ho Yeah!\" - HO EA.
DI (die) ARR (Arghh) you are done with the diarrhoea,
you shout HO EA (Ho Yeah!)
(b) Embarrassed: How to remember the spelling?
EM-BAR-RAS-SED: In order to help the children to remember all
the double 'r's and 's's, we break up the word.
3) Learn creative writing phrases the fun way.
Now, we put the phrases together and we teach them to learn it
the fun way.
They will be taught to 'show' the scene and not just 'tell' it.
Tell: I am scared
Show: Trembling with fear, I stood. Perspiration rolled down
my face as all kinds of thoughts raced through my mind. A giant fist
of terror seemed to twist and turn in my stomach.
It is easy for a child to 'tell' but in order to 'show', he needs to
know the use of creative writing strategies and to have a
wide vocabulary.
We will also teach the child fun ways to remember the phrases.
We do it with acting and giving rhythm to the words. (hard to show
here)
4) Then we will play a treasure hunt for the
kids to make use of what they have learnt.
We will 'tell' them certain scenes and they will
have to hunt for the relevant 'showing' phrases and then put them
together to make a story.
*In order to take part in these free creative writing activities,
you need to contact us to sign up for the Night at the Reading
Museum event.
We also explain the creative writing strategies that are used and show
you how you can teach them to your children during the
creative writing parent's workshops. We are going to have
one coming up in August/September.
The dates are not confirmed yet as we are going to have it in our new centre at Bukit Timah. Once the operations at this centre
starts, we will let you know the confirmed date of the workshop.
In the meantime, you can pm or email or call us to be put on the waiting list for this workshop.
We will pm you details of our pre-school admission. Right now,
we do take in preschool kids but we do not have a class just for
them, they join the primary 1 kids. So we need to assess your child
first. We will pm you details of this assessment.
For our blog, we are going to have a new website (in the midst of
doing it), so we have not updated our blog for now, sorry for any inconvenience caused.
TAS
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