Q&A - P2 English

[optimistforum]

Edited, as this post is duplicated in next post (10.20pm GMT - 21/03/11)

[optimistforum]

janet_lee88:

plum-cake:

[quote=\"janet_lee88\"]
Fortunately the P2 books I have for her is just 8 books.
Yup the P2 Complete Practice Book is by Josephine Yeo (EPH). It has CA1 and 2, SA1 and 2. Went through Loh Tee Yang's Home Study 1 and found it's not bad and that other one is the English Practice.

Ok I might chk the P3 then and see. Thank you.

If you happen to know of any discount for Loh Tee Yang's Home Study for P2, pls let me know ok ? Thanks in advance:)
BTW, there is this mummy whom I talked to regarding assessment books at Popular last night. She loves to check out new publications (like us) although her son is in K2.[/quote]My DS is P2 (who will be 7 in July when our UK school year also finishes in the same month), started the P2 Complete Practice Book by Josephine Yeoo. He was adept at the exercies. However, in February I moved him to P3 and he struggles a little, as the cloze exercies are a little harder. He also does the P3 Challenging 4-in-1 English by EPH. In fact he hated doing some vocab exercises in his after-school club today as he took his hardback dictionary, and not the electronic one he prefers.

However, if your DC finds P2 straightforward, I would stretch them with P3. I also possess the English Practice books by Jean Chua - I do not find them challenging enough. However, P1 English Practice is a good resource for my K2 DS2.

[janet88]

Hi optimistforum,

I prefer Challenging English 4-in-1. It’s good practice. For Josephine Yeo’s Complete Practice Book, the space is a little small for comprehension. Usually buy separate assessment books for synthesis, grammar, vocab etc.

[Yong HL]

optimistforum:

[Franklin LWB1216 Childrens Dictionary & Spellchecker

Thanks. Will check it out

[optimistforum]

janet_lee88:

Hi optimistforum,

I prefer Challenging English 4-in-1. It's good practice. For Josephine Yeo's Complete Practice Book, the space is a little small for comprehension. Usually buy separate assessment books for synthesis, grammar, vocab etc.

Hi janet_lee88

Good morning to you. Do you find the Complete Practice Harder than the Challenging 4-in 1. DS1 thinks Challenging is easier. I flit between the two books, with him.

We are effectively shadowing the MOE Eng and Maths syllabus at home (have been doing for 3 years), whilst DC do the UK National Curriculum at school.

[ridcully]

Yong HL:

optimistforum:

[Franklin LWB1216 Childrens Dictionary & Spellchecker

Thanks. Will check it out

Yong HL,
I would recommend the Oxford Junior Illustrated Dictionary (and the Oxford Junior Illustrated Thesaurus) both of which are available from Popular. They are very child-friendly: big, colourful, lovely illustrations, list of the alphabet letters down the margin for easy lookup.

I would also advise you to avoid electronic dictionaries at this stage. These days so many kids are used to electronic devices that they forget there are things out there with real pages... and I won't begin to talk about the prevalence of myopia in Singapore (hint: Singapore is number 1 in the world).

Rgds
R

[Yong HL]

ridcully:

[Yong HL,

I would recommend the Oxford Junior Illustrated Dictionary (and the Oxford Junior Illustrated Thesaurus) both of which are available from Popular. They are very child-friendly: big, colourful, lovely illustrations, list of the alphabet letters down the margin for easy lookup.
Rgds
R

Thanks Ridcully. Will check it out too

[lizuan76]

Hi


My daughter english test will have synthesis, what is that?

Thanks

[janet88]

lizuan76:

Hi


My daughter english test will have synthesis, what is that?
Thanks

Synthesis is about connectors, for eg, and/because/where to begin with.
Daughter's teacher started on 'because' just before Term 1 ended.

[lizuan76]

Janet, thanks.


How to revise synthesis with my daughter? Is there any english assessment books purely on synthesis?

I have already over bought a lot of english assesment books for my girl already.