ChiefKiasu\" post_id=\"1900576\" time=\"1551440985\" user_id=\"3:

Lol. That's a good way teach teach just the word \"stairs\". Not very useful to teach anything else. A thought struck me. We usually speed read by reading the first and last character of every word. So your strategy might even hamper speed reading...

marshallbrown\" post_id=\"1898078\" time=\"1549893550\" user_id=\"175512:

Everyone is suggesting here to start verbally and it reminded me of my childhood, exactly this method works!

Eliora:

Try breaking up the words. It worked wonders for me.

Eliora:

Try breaking up the words. It worked wonders for me.

cokee_ang:

Bookmarked

lovinglife:

magiccastle:

My experience is once the child masters phonic , english spelling n reading is a breeze. They are able to encode unseen words easily . I don't have to ask them to learn spelling. They are able to spell out the word like 'incomprehensible ' without even learning . The key is to master phonic .

I fully agreed. Mastering phonics skill will help the child spells and reads with ease. All we have to do is go through the spelling list, sound the words out segment by segment in phonetic way, even unknown words are easy to tackle. Once the child able to spell out the whole word, you can just move on to next word. It probably only take you 2 days to practise, each time less than 15 mins, depends on how many new words that the child is not known.

magiccastle:

My experience is once the child masters phonic , english spelling n reading is a breeze. They are able to encode unseen words easily . I don't have to ask them to learn spelling. They are able to spell out the word like 'incomprehensible ' without even learning . The key is to master phonic .

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.

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.