All About Teaching and Learning Phonics

[keltong]

tamarind:

keltong,

Thank you so much for sharing

Yes it is not easy. I was not able to come up with fun ideas every day, more than 50% of the days when I was teaching him phonics, I only asked him to arrange the cards. But he was quite enthusiastic because he knew that I would surprise him once in a while with interesting and fun things to do

Ya..some days just too tired to do anything. But must keep going.

[keltong]

tamarind:

bearbear:

Don't forget the rewards (e.g. encouraging words, child favorite food, etc) it helps a lot.

I agree !

I second that!

[smurf]

Thanks Tamarind.


I thought it would be more difficult for the child next time when he or she has to spell out the words. For example, cat or fat, there is no letter that makes the sound 'at', so it might confuse the child. I thought so. :celebrate:

[keltong]

smurf:

Thanks Tamarind.


I thought it would be more difficult for the child next time when he or she has to spell out the words. For example, cat or fat, there is no letter that makes the sound 'at', so it might confuse the child. I thought so. :celebrate:

Not sure if I am doing it correctly as I am new to this. What I did is let him learn the 2 letter blending before introducing him to the 3rd letter.

So in your example, for 'at', I will go through with him and let him blend 'a' and 't' to form 'at'. Once he is quite certain, I will than intro the 3 letters like 'c', 'h', 'f', 'r', etc...and use 'c' and 'at' instead of trying to break 'a' and 't' again. Sometimes he will stuck when trying to blend the 3 letters and will revise the 2 letter again and than try the 3 letters one more time.

[tamarind]

keltong:

smurf:

Thanks Tamarind.


I thought it would be more difficult for the child next time when he or she has to spell out the words. For example, cat or fat, there is no letter that makes the sound 'at', so it might confuse the child. I thought so. :celebrate:

Not sure if I am doing it correctly as I am new to this. What I did is let him learn the 2 letter blending before introducing him to the 3rd letter.

So in your example, for 'at', I will go through with him and let him blend 'a' and 't' to form 'at'. Once he is quite certain, I will than intro the 3 letters like 'c', 'h', 'f', 'r', etc...and use 'c' and 'at' instead of trying to break 'a' and 't' again. Sometimes he will stuck when trying to blend the 3 letters and will revise the 2 letter again and than try the 3 letters one more time.

keltong,
That was what I did when I taught my boy

[tamarind]

smurf:

Thanks Tamarind.


I thought it would be more difficult for the child next time when he or she has to spell out the words. For example, cat or fat, there is no letter that makes the sound 'at', so it might confuse the child. I thought so. :celebrate:

Don't worry, if phonics is correctly taught, kids will know how to break up the word in their brain and select the correct words.

[keltong]

tamarind:

keltong:

[quote=\"smurf\"]Thanks Tamarind.


I thought it would be more difficult for the child next time when he or she has to spell out the words. For example, cat or fat, there is no letter that makes the sound 'at', so it might confuse the child. I thought so. :celebrate:

Not sure if I am doing it correctly as I am new to this. What I did is let him learn the 2 letter blending before introducing him to the 3rd letter.

So in your example, for 'at', I will go through with him and let him blend 'a' and 't' to form 'at'. Once he is quite certain, I will than intro the 3 letters like 'c', 'h', 'f', 'r', etc...and use 'c' and 'at' instead of trying to break 'a' and 't' again. Sometimes he will stuck when trying to blend the 3 letters and will revise the 2 letter again and than try the 3 letters one more time.

keltong,
That was what I did when I taught my boy :D[/quote]Guess who I learn from? A certain blog that is frequently mentioned in this thread :lol:

[tamarind]

keltong:

Guess who I learn from? A certain blog that is frequently mentioned in this thread :lol:

[porcupine12trade]

keltong:

Try to bring in the fun part so that he will get interested and will not tink it's a chore, that is what I am trying to avoid with my 2nd boy. My son kept talking about the 'sad' girl and 'bad' boy this few days, so it has really stuck in his head. Just now he was looking for the 'pad' to start his drawing again. Only that tonight I was rushing my work and didn't have time to go through with him again but he seems more open to it now.

Perseverance is definitely needed. 加油！

I \"copied\" tamarind and your idea, i look for real life items, when i cant find, i draw on A4 paper, my son likes them and they work! And it helped further that my #2 is \"fighting\" with him to tell me how to read a word. so like u say, now my son keeps \"C...AT, cat\", \"C AB, cab\" on n off even when Im not practicing with him :D... and i find he can understand the \"technique\" after the fun game

btw i read some pages on 45kuaidu that we shld stop the teaching when the kid is most \"excited\"...i tried that, and its true, my son looks fwd to the nx session coz i always stop when he wanted more.

[tamarind]

porcupine12trade:

btw i read some pages on 45kuaidu that we shld stop the teaching when the kid is most \"excited\"...i tried that, and its true, my son looks fwd to the nx session coz i always stop when he wanted more.

Yes this is a very important trick that I learned from the 45kuaidu books, and it works really well for my boy