All About Teaching and Learning Phonics

[RRMummy]

tamarind:

RRMummy:

Sorry, I hope my comments did not offend you. Really no offence intended.. just different strokes for different folks, I guess..

Don't worry. Your comments did not offend me at all

Both my hubby and I grew up in the same way, so we are sure our kids can take it. They are already enjoying a better childhood than us anyway.

I was starting to ...

Your kids are really doing great from what I can see in your blogs.. I would enjoy making little log-house and baking yummy cupcakes too!

:celebrate:

[starz]

Hi Tamarind,


I happened to find this thread n i m impressed with your kids.

In fact, i have taught my kid to read sight words first (around 100 words) before teaching her phonics. Cos i thought perhaps most words are sight words. Until i saw your blog i started to teach her phonics starting off with vowel a on how to blend even word she already know how to read.

We have started out and done -at, -an, -am, -ap and now seems stuck at -ag, -ad. The problem is she seems very confused between ap and ag and ad. How to tell her to differentiate? cos she is not sure how to pronounce the the 3 of these 2 letters words. Any advise?

Is it a must to complete all the vowel a first then proceed to vowel e? can i mix since she seems abit frustrated on the ap, ag, ad…she does know her basic phonics well.

btw, how do i pronouce fish? how many sounds? 2 or 3? any good websites teach how to pronounce fish, shop n etc?

Lastly May i know which branch montessori phonic class were u attending?
Is it accompanied? May i know why did u stop after 11mths with your elder ger?

Thank you for your time to read my post.

[Charmaine_chong]

Hi mummies,


Found a website that is great for teaching phonics + sight words + cute pictures + fun stories.

Have a look!

http://www.progressivephonics.com/index.php

[tamarind]

starz,

My girl went to the Montessori phonics enrichment class near Lakeside MRT. The phonics course is only 11 months, my girl completed the whole course. It is an express course for kids above 3 years 6 months old.

How old is your girl ?

You can break up "ap" to a - p, then teach your girl to sound out each word. Young kids may take quite long to learn to read 2 letter words. They need lots of practice. Try to make it fun by using games. For example, put the letter "a" on a toy car, put the letter "p" on another car, then roll them towards each other while sounding out the "a" and "p" sounds until they collide ! Some fun and actions will enable the child to learn better.

It is not necessary to make sure that she knows all the "a" words very well, when you think she has enough practice, you can move on to "e" words, then "i", "o", "u" words. Then go back to practice "a" words again. It make take 6 months to 1 year to learn read 3 letter words.

My girl’s phonics class take only 2 weeks to complete all the "a" words. Her classmate’s mommy told me that her 6 year old son cannot follow up. The advantage of learning at home is that you can progress at a speed that suits your girl.

Also try to explain the words to your girl, by find the real object, or demonstrating the actions.

[joyip]

Hi Tamarind,


I read your blog and feel inspired to teach my girl phonics using the same method. have since started teaching my girl phonics, I realised that four year old girl got confused with the vowels "a" sound and "e" as they sound almost the same.How do you differentiate their sound?

[starz]

Hi Tamarind,


My girl is 3 years old this year. Is it too young for this age to learn 2 letters words? She knows her phonics quite well. I intend to enrol her Montessori phonics. Are they strict as in must be 3yrs 6mths above?

When she comes to ap, ag, ad, maybe to her the words seems almost same n sound the same?? and she will feel frustrated to blend those.

However, as for -an, -am, -at, she knows them well and shows more interest in these. maybe the words looks different more obviously. Not too sure. trying to find out the problem. Or perhaps not enough practice

Like joyip, vowel a and e sounds almost the same. how to differentiate?

[jedamum]

starz:

Like joyip, vowel a and e sounds almost the same. how to differentiate?

hi starz,
thanks for bringing this up. i am 'stuck' at 'et' and 'eg' 'en' too.
while my boy has recognises 'ag', 'at', 'an', 'am', 'ig', 'it', 'ot', 'ip', he'll mixed up a bit when i put in a letter in front of these blends ie 'man' he can say 'mat'. i think i made a mistake in teaching from my book cos instead of mastering one before moving on to the other, the boy flipped through the book and pick what he likes to do that day.

[tamarind]

joyip, jedamum,

You can try to listen to the sounds in these 2 web pages :

http://www.starfall.com/n/level-k/letter-a/load.htm?f

http://www.starfall.com/n/level-k/letter-e/load.htm?f


For \"a\", you need to open the mouth bigger, and it sounds a bit longer than \"e\". Hard to explain to kids, best to let them listen to the sounds from the web page.


starz,
Yes Montessori phonics only takes in children who are 3 years 6 months and above. This class is an express course for children up to 6 years old. It takes only 11 months to complete the full phonics course. The staff thinks that the later part is too difficult for very young children to understand.

You can try Zoophonics. They take in children as young as 2 years old. They take almost one year just to teach the letter sounds, then another whole year to teach 3 letter words.

You can try to break up the words \"ap\", ask her to sound out \"a\" and \"p\" separately. The same for \"ag\" and \"ad\". Children need lots of practice, just keep repeating.

Instead of teaching \"ap\", \"ag\", \"ad\" together, you can teach these :
an at am ap

Since she knows the first 3 very well, she should be able to tell which one is \"ap\".

Then continue with :
an at am ap ag

There is no need to wait for her to know all the 2 letter words very well before teaching the 3 letter words. Since she knows \"at\", \"am\", \"an\", you can start to teach 3 letter words ending with these letters first, then slowly progress to words ending with \"ap\", \"ag' and \"ad\". With more practice, she will understand.

[Charmaine_chong]

Dear Mummies,



Great on line phonics website that teaches Phonics, Consonants, Vowels, Blends & (Common Words)Sight Words

http://www.abcfastphonics.com/

Catchy alphabet sound

http://www.youtube.com/user/barbaramilne

[tamarind]

Charmaine_chong:

Dear Mummies,



Great on line phonics website that teaches Phonics, Consonants, Vowels, Blends & (Common Words)Sight Words

http://www.abcfastphonics.com/

Catchy alphabet sound

http://www.youtube.com/user/barbaramilne

Thanks for sharing !