Teaching Chinese at Home

[jenao]

Hi, for those who have used SWKD, if you have finished one bk and moved on to another bk say finished bk 1 and move to bk 2, do you still revise the lessons in bk1? Or is it sufficient to revise those in bk 2 since some of the words will be repeated? And when you move to higher level say bk 5 or 6, do you also revise bk 2, 3 or 4? Wondering how often do you have to go back to the earlier books.


Appreciate your reply.

[Musings]

jenao:

Hi, for those who have used SWKD, if you have finished one bk and moved on to another bk say finished bk 1 and move to bk 2, do you still revise the lessons in bk1? Or is it sufficient to revise those in bk 2 since some of the words will be repeated? And when you move to higher level say bk 5 or 6, do you also revise bk 2, 3 or 4? Wondering how often do you have to go back to the earlier books.


Appreciate your reply.

We always revise the previous lesson or previous 2 lessons even when we start a new lesson. So each night, we cover 1 new lesson and 2 previous lessons. By the time my DS finish a book, I was quite confident he knew at least 90% of the stuff in that book.

By the time we finish book 3, we also read other simple books which have the characters/vocab he had learnt each night on top of the SWKD lessons. I find that helps a lot as he can see how the vocab is used in stories etc - all these help him retain in his long term memory.

It is rather tedious and took us 9 months of daily learning before finishing the 6 books. But now that we have not used the books for half a year, I know he still retain about 80% of the SWKD vocab in long term memory and the balance 20%, he just needs some reminder so I find going slow and thorough works for us at least.

[Siew Woon]

Hi,


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[jenao]

Thanks musings. I guess we were not consistent in doing SWKD. Ds seem to have forgotten some of the words in Bk 1 and so we are going back to reinforce those words. So far, bk 2 is quite good as we are more consistent doing it daily.

[Wan]

jenao,

If u know which are the words from book 1 that ur DS kept forgetting, suggest u pick up those word cards to play with, or find other books or use 故事集bk8 with these words to reinforce the meaning. I don’t think have to strictly follow the sequence. I also use Bk7 to find words with same 部首& explain the rationale of 象形文字bcos my son is a visual learner. I’m teaching a P1 & K1 using 四五快读，but they learn differently. Need to adapt to situation bah

[laughingcat]

Hi mummies,


The 基础汉字500 实力级 (level 5) are out at popular bookstore.

[tuxsam]

laughingcat, thanks for sharing:)

[bktan02]

Just to share the bag I bought from Daiso to keep the cards from the books. Put them in the pocket 1 to 10 according to the lessons of the books. Those words can't read or write will put individual inside each pocket below.


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[phtthp]

hi bktan02,


the bag v useful ! which Daiso branch you buy from ? still got stock ?

[bktan02]

I bought it from IMM Daiso very long ago. I have misplaced another so need to buy again. Will update here if I can find it at imm again.