How to teach spelling???

[marmum]

Thanks for all the good sugguestions and assistance here... my child is 6 this year.... somehow after numerous repeatitive writing, still dont know... thus i tried using the white board for fun learning but still does not see much improvement.... use reading, also does work well.... somehow I find that my child does not want to remember until i gave up and say dont wanna learn, dont learn..... :slapshead: then my child cried and sat down to put in effort to learn.......... at least that's what I see and it worked. Somehow, need to me get angry then can motivate my child to work hard? :yikes: How.... how???

[sharonkhoo]

marmum:

Thanks for all the good sugguestions and assistance here... my child is 6 this year.... somehow after numerous repeatitive writing, still dont know... thus i tried using the white board for fun learning but still does not see much improvement.... use reading, also does work well.... somehow I find that my child does not want to remember until i gave up and say dont wanna learn, dont learn..... :slapshead: then my child cried and sat down to put in effort to learn.......... at least that's what I see and it worked. Somehow, need to me get angry then can motivate my child to work hard? :yikes: How.... how???

Maybe it's not that you got angry, but that you gave the child the choice? It could be that when getting the knowledge into his head was seen to be your responsibility, he didn't put in effort, but when it became his responsibility, he did? Why not try it for a few weeks - tell him he can choose not to learn the spelling and get low marks and a consequence (writing every word 10 times or whatever), or learning it by himself and getting good marks. I wouldn't promise a reward onto the learning part just yet, but if he does well, you can give him a small treat.

[MsPizza]

Repetitive writing doesn’t work on my 6+ year old. What work was covering the letters and break it down for her. For example, the word bulldozer (bull-do-zer). I’ll ask her to spell bull first, then do and lastly zer but Im unsure if it will work on your child. Good luck!

[janet88]

frankly, learning eng spelling and 听写 is different. for spelling, i break up the words but 听写, she has to write at least 3-4 times and that helps her remember. my tutor once told me to remember chinese characters, it is easier to remember through writing.

[JohnYeo]

janet_lee88:

frankly, learning eng spelling and 听写 is different. for spelling, i break up the words but 听写, she has to write at least 3-4 times and that helps her remember. my tutor once told me to remember chinese characters, it is easier to remember through writing.

Breaking up the words work for me when I was in Primary school...like handkerchief...it was the hardest word I knew then...and when my mom broke it to hand-ker-chief....i could remember it easily....hope this helps.

[Harlequin]

For Chinese, the square words are made up from 部首 (the key or radical by which a character is arranged)

人，木，心，日，月, 口，手 etc…

The traditional way of learning Chinese is to learn all these 部首 first. They are usually on the left side of a Chinese square word, but also can be formed on top or bottom of the right side, or in the middle.

To learn Chinese in a easier and fun way is to teach the kids all the 部首 first, those are the base "words’… Unfortunately, nowadays we learn Chinese by the "phonic", that’s the Han-Yi-pin-yin way… so the kids must know how to pronounce the Chinese word first, before they can even use a dictionary. To me, it’s 本末倒置。

I sincerely think that all kids should start with learning the 部首. There is no point to memorize the 笔划 of the word itself, until one knows how and why it is formed.

If parents are keen, please get a 部首编排法 booklet for your children’s leisure learning, explain to them how the way it works, and the Chinese’s 象形文字 formation is interesting to the children, e.g., how the 月 looks like the word itself etc.

When all the 部首 is learned, the child will have no problem handling 听写 by herself. No need the hard memorizing about where is the 点，横， 竖，钩, or missing a stroke here and there…

Sigh.

[melodyrain2]

This is what I need! Thanks Harlequin!

[durianlove1974]

Harlequin:

For Chinese, the square words are made up from 部首 (the key or radical by which a character is arranged)

人，木，心，日，月, 口，手 etc...

The traditional way of learning Chinese is to learn all these 部首 first. They are usually on the left side of a Chinese square word, but also can be formed on top or bottom of the right side, or in the middle.

To learn Chinese in a easier and fun way is to teach the kids all the 部首 first, those are the base \"words'... Unfortunately, nowadays we learn Chinese by the \"phonic\", that's the Han-Yi-pin-yin way... so the kids must know how to pronounce the Chinese word first, before they can even use a dictionary. To me, it's 本末倒置。

I sincerely think that all kids should start with learning the 部首. There is no point to memorize the 笔划 of the word itself, until one knows how and why it is formed.

If parents are keen, please get a 部首编排法 booklet for your children's leisure learning, explain to them how the way it works, and the Chinese's 象形文字 formation is interesting to the children, e.g., how the 月 looks like the word itself etc.

When all the 部首 is learned, the child will have no problem handling 听写 by herself. No need the hard memorizing about where is the 点，横， 竖，钩, or missing a stroke here and there...

Sigh.

I am thinking of teaching my children the 部首.

But is it necessary to memorise the name of the 部首?

For example, 钅is pronounced as jin. I am afraid my child might get confuse with the actual word 金. Any suggestion?

[sembgal]

When pressed for time, I just get my child to copy out the words using pencil. It works for my child in this way. I draw columns in exercise books, get the child to copy the word. After writing a few times, get the child to cover up the word and write out the word. If the child forgets how to write, refer to the word again until the child commits the word to memory.


If I have time to spare, I will use magnetic letters from Leapfrog to teach English Spelling.

If I have sand (too bad I don’t), I will get the child to use a stick to trace out the word.

[Lazy snake]

For teaching Chinese is better-you can teach stroke by stroke and say the hanyupinyin and keep practicing