I Can Read - Discussion

[janmummie]

Hi everyone… have heard quite a lot about i can read and that it has a good programme. Not sure if it will help my daughters though… and thought I’d come to this forum to check it out. Need some honest opinions, please! which branch is good? and is there a particular teacher you can recommend? Have to admit… have been a bit of a lazy mummy… quite content to let daughters read at home and I just help them out with some writing and reading. But older daughter in P1 this year… younger daughter is 5. i better start looking out!


TIA!

[heavenarc]

Anyone has kids in ICR Yishun or LC in Kathib? Pls provide some feedback is it good? My ds is 6 now.

Appreciate all valuable feedback.

[Felicia09]

heavenarc:

Anyone has kids in ICR Yishun or LC in Kathib? Pls provide some feedback is it good? My ds is 6 now.

Appreciate all valuable feedback.

My 2 girls currently is at ICR at Chong Pang. So far so good and they love their teacher. My no.1 is with ICR for almost 2 yrs.
My No 1 even joined LC @Khatib for 2 terms, dont see any progress for her and she dont really like to join the class. Later on i found that the reason is because the teacher at LC is an ang moh and she cant understand his slang. My no 1 english is quite poor, so it very much depend on your kid. If your kid is english speaking kid, certain teacher with some slang will be ok for them.

[heavenarc]

Thanks Felicia09,

Which level are your child in ICR? Any idea which teacher is better?
Oh no wonder my ds did not like LC after the assessment, thinking back it could be the strong accent. Instead it’s me the mummy who’s impress with their materials.

[Dino mummy]

Felicia09:

heavenarc:

Anyone has kids in ICR Yishun or LC in Kathib? Pls provide some feedback is it good? My ds is 6 now.

Appreciate all valuable feedback.

My 2 girls currently is at ICR at Chong Pang. So far so good and they love their teacher. My no.1 is with ICR for almost 2 yrs.
My No 1 even joined LC @Khatib for 2 terms, dont see any progress for her and she dont really like to join the class. Later on i found that the reason is because the teacher at LC is an ang moh and she cant understand his slang. My no 1 english is quite poor, so it very much depend on your kid. If your kid is english speaking kid, certain teacher with some slang will be ok for them.

I thot all ICR teachers are native speaking teachers, hence most will have a certain accent? That's why they chareg a higher fee.

[Felicia09]

HI heavenarc,

My eldest is at PRP and 2nd one is at TCS. This TCS teacher is just newly joined ICR, so i cant comment much. But previously, my no 1 when she’s in TCS, she was under Teacher Margaret. She’s a nice lady. She’s quite proactive feedback to me on my girl progress in class when she’s just newly join her class. And she managed to understand my girl’s problem (My girl was very poor in english and too shy to speak at that time) and help my girl to be more open up and speak in English. This is the part i likes about this teacher.

[Felicia09]

Hi Dino mum,

My girl previous level in ICR is a singaporean chinese teacher. But if you did not mentioned i din realised seems like this teacher is the only sporean at that centre.

But i heard from my collegue, her son teacher in ICR at another branch also a singaporean lady.

[heavenarc]

thanks felicia09… Think I go check out over this weekend.


Glad that your kids are enjoying their lessons at ICR.

[Dino mummy]

Felicia09:

Hi Dino mum,

My girl previous level in ICR is a singaporean chinese teacher. But if you did not mentioned i din realised seems like this teacher is the only sporean at that centre.

But i heard from my collegue, her son teacher in ICR at another branch also a singaporean lady.

Hi Felicia
That's strange...Native speaking Teacher is a \"selling point\" for ICR, just like LC. I saw all Native teachers at the branch at CCK which my boy attended. If it is not conducted by native speaking teacher, I will go to other phonics school, cheaper. You may want to check it out at your centres, question them on this..I tink their website oso mentioned the classes are conducted by native speaking teachers.
The only 2 chinese lasdies I saw at CCK were the admin staff.

[Felicia09]

Dino mummy:

Felicia09:

Hi Dino mum,

My girl previous level in ICR is a singaporean chinese teacher. But if you did not mentioned i din realised seems like this teacher is the only sporean at that centre.

But i heard from my collegue, her son teacher in ICR at another branch also a singaporean lady.

Hi Felicia
That's strange...Native speaking Teacher is a \"selling point\" for ICR, just like LC. I saw all Native teachers at the branch at CCK which my boy attended. If it is not conducted by native speaking teacher, I will go to other phonics school, cheaper. You may want to check it out at your centres, question them on this..I tink their website oso mentioned the classes are conducted by native speaking teachers.
The only 2 chinese lasdies I saw at CCK were the admin staff.

Hi Dino Mum,
I din know about this. On the 1st trial, my girl was with that sporean teacher and she's comfortable with her tats why i din question much. She's now with a native teacher. But now i suddenly realised actually is 2 sporean teacher at my girls branch as my youngest teacher is a chinese, which i supposed is sporean as well. This teacher just joined this branch not long ago. Ok, i'll check with them on next class. Thanks for alerting me on this.