MOe announced Learning of English to Develop 21st Century

[SAHM_TAN]

Chenonceau:

SAHM_TAN:

[quote=\"Chenonceau\"]I used both these too... the poetry especially was enormous fun... that my son went to the library to borrow children's poetry to memorize.


http://www.ricgroup.com.au/product/investigating-poetry/

http://www.ricgroup.com.au/product/cloze-in-on-language/

These might be what I'm looking for. Thank you very much.

No no no... the poetry link is wrong... this is the one...
http://www.ricgroup.com.au/product/rhymes-for-rascals/
I liked it because it was SILLY BILLY and NAUGHTY.

And here is one I used for comprehension...
http://www.ricgroup.com.au/product/reading-for-detail/[/quote]The comprehension stuff like very similar to the revised syllabus leh. You have a crystal ball?

[mummy of 2]

Are you selling any of the books? Can I buy from you?

Chenonceau:

SAHM_TAN:

[quote=\"Chenonceau\"]I used both these too... the poetry especially was enormous fun... that my son went to the library to borrow children's poetry to memorize.

http://www.ricgroup.com.au/product/investigating-poetry/

http://www.ricgroup.com.au/product/cloze-in-on-language/

These might be what I'm looking for. Thank you very much.

No no no... the poetry link is wrong... this is the one...
http://www.ricgroup.com.au/product/rhymes-for-rascals/
I liked it because it was SILLY BILLY and NAUGHTY.


And here is one I used for comprehension...
http://www.ricgroup.com.au/product/reading-for-detail/[/quote]

[Chenonceau]

Nebbermind:

Can recommend some free resources?

STELLAR... provided they give access to parents. STELLAR is free... paid by taxpayers.

[SAHM_TAN]

Chenonceau:

Nebbermind:

Can recommend some free resources?

STELLAR... provided they give access to parents. STELLAR is free... paid by taxpayers.

Unfortunately the national library do not carry all of the titles used in STELLAR

[Chenonceau]

mummy of 2:

Are you selling any of the books? Can I buy from you?

Ummm... no... I don't sell them. You can go online and buy from the link I sent you? I lent my lot to a friend... and she'll return them to me so that I can use for the Grandkids. The exercises are fun and well-conceived so they don't go out of fashion. I can use them to have fun with the Grandkids whatever the MOE does in future.

Language is language. It doesn't matter how you test it. So MOE can change its PSLE format all it wants. I am just glad that I got my child to be truly competent at home... without really worrying about what strange things the teachers in school were doing. Like for example... comprehension questions can only be answered in ONE sentence. I didn't understand why. So I looked past it and worked on having FUN with my little ones.

Unfortunately, I never did it for Chinese because I didn't know the PSLE now tests True Competence... and that drilling doesn't work anymore. We were just LUCKY that I love English and love playing with it.

As long as PSLE tests True Competence, then the same books I used for my kids are still useable for my grandkids because as long as the child is competent, he'll score. It doesn't matter what the PSLE becomes. BUT it matters how you teach it. If the teaching is poor then the child won't get competent and won't score.

[Chenonceau]

SAHM_TAN:

Chenonceau:

[quote=\"Nebbermind\"]Can recommend some free resources?

STELLAR... provided they give access to parents. STELLAR is free... paid by taxpayers.

Unfortunately the national library do not carry all of the titles used in STELLAR[/quote]That's fine. If you have money, go online to buy. That's what I did. No money? Well... too bad. Make do with the cheaper resources in the local bookstores. That's the way the system has been the past few years. It's a meritocracy remember?

**sarcasm intended**

[SAHM_TAN]

So you think that MOE will still not get it right by the time you have grandkids? :rotflmao:


For Chinese, I'm looking at materials published from China, do you have any recommendation too?

[SAHM_TAN]

Chenonceau:

SAHM_TAN:

[quote=\"Chenonceau\"]

STELLAR... provided they give access to parents. STELLAR is free... paid by taxpayers.

Unfortunately the national library do not carry all of the titles used in STELLAR

That's fine. If you have money, go online to buy. That's what I did. No money? Well... too bad. Make do with the cheaper resources in the local bookstores. That's the way the system has been the past few years. It's a meritocracy remember?

**sarcasm intended**[/quote] :rotflmao: it seems that my inability to grasp sarcasm is known far and wide :rotflmao:

[Chenonceau]

SAHM_TAN:

The comprehension stuff like very similar to the revised syllabus leh. You have a crystal ball?

I forgot to add that even whilst I was using all those materials for fun, my son scored very badly for English in lower primary. It just seems like God's miracle that the PSLE now tests to True Competence... and that the foundation laid by these books now place him at the top of the class for English... and till now, I have not had to do a single Synthesis and Transformation assessment exercise with him... and he does not do top school papers for English.

Amazing right? We are very blessed and inside the palm of God.

I had no way of telling that what I was doing in those days... having fun... playing... laughing... would today be intellectual capital that powers his performance at PSLE English 2012.

[Chenonceau]

SAHM_TAN:

So you think that MOE will still not get it right by the time you have grandkids? :rotflmao:


For Chinese, I'm looking at materials published from China, do you have any recommendation too?

You want Potato Chinese? I sell that. Other than that... go look at Tamarind's blog?

And oh boy... about MOE... I dunno if they'll get it right by the time my Grandkids come along. But I think I see some encouraging stirrings to shore up quality of teaching SYSTEMICALLY. There are smart people working there. They just need to move past feelings of pride and stop defending themselves... and focus on specific issues of improvement.

It's pride that gets in the way. Not intellect. I believe the MOE has enough brains to get it right. It depends on whether they can hear our pain and respond... instead of hear their own brains and shut us out.