All About Teaching and Learning Phonics

[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

[smurf]

I also tried to do that. But there was a time when I didn't, I continue, thought that he could absorb more, and then he got bored, and after that, the next time we read it, he wasn't very keen anymore.

[tamarind]

smurf:

I also tried to do that. But there was a time when I didn't, I continue, thought that he could absorb more, and then he got bored, and after that, the next time we read it, he wasn't very keen anymore.

smurf,
When reading books, we must pretend that we are not trying to make our kids learn new words. Instead, we should focus on making reading fun and enjoyable. I used soft toys to act out the story, and also make real things inspired by the story. Check out my blog :
http://tamarindphonics.blogspot.com/2010/02/developing-love-for-reading.html

[smurf]

I know this, but I was impatient, I wanted him to know as many words in 1 sitting.

[tamarind]

smurf:

I know this, but I was impatient, I wanted him to know as many words in 1 sitting.

It's not easy teaching kids, just have to keep trying