All About Teaching and Learning Phonics

[tamarind]

porcupine12trade:

Tamarind is it you who reco the book The Lion, the witch and the wardrobe? I found it in the library and my gal loves it, though she has nvr watched Narnia. Anymore books to reco? We are running out of books to borrow, the usual ones she borrows are rainbow magic (i dont like), tiara club (i dont like), magic ballerina, all enid blytons esp the adventure ones, naughty gal, malory towers etc, nancy drew, roald dahl, and others i cant rem.. I have no idea what else to search in the library for her. I buy quite many books too, esp those i feel may benefit my #2, #3.

Hi porcupine12trade,
Yes I recommended the Lion, the witch and the wardrobe in my blog.

I also highly recommend these wonderful books :

Suitable for boys and girls:
Lafcadio The Lion who shot back by Shel Silverstein
Charmed Life by Diana Wynne Jones
The book of dragons by E. Nesbit
Melisande by E. Nesbit
Three tales of My Father's Dragon by Ruth Stiles Gannett
Tales of a fourth grade nothing by Judy Blume
Jenny goes to sea by Esther Averill


The following are good books that girls will love :
The Cobble Street Cousins by Cythia Rylant
The Fairy Rebel by Lynne Reid Banks
No Flying in the House by Betty Brock

These books are many times more interesting than Enid Blyton books.

My kids have also read many wonderful children's classics :
http://tamarindphonics.blogspot.com/2010/03/importance-of-reading-books.html

All books are available in the library and amazon.com, but most cannot be found in local books.

[tamarind]

porcupine12trade:

hi Tamarind


I have a very silly qn to ask u, side track abit. I a going to teach my son phonics (3 letter words). I am thinking of using blank flash cards (i ordered 1000s 2 yrs back and did not make good use of them :oops: now thinkin gof using them), and using marker (red and black) to make the word cards. Is it ok to \"handwrite\" on the cards? or is it better to print out, so the letters are all uniform. I have sooo many markers coz my hb bot permanent makers instead of whiteboard makers (needed by my P2 gal).

I think it is fine to handwrite the cards, just make sure that you write neatly will do.

[porcupine12trade]

tamarind:

porcupine12trade:

hi Tamarind


I have a very silly qn to ask u, side track abit. I a going to teach my son phonics (3 letter words). I am thinking of using blank flash cards (i ordered 1000s 2 yrs back and did not make good use of them :oops: now thinkin gof using them), and using marker (red and black) to make the word cards. Is it ok to \"handwrite\" on the cards? or is it better to print out, so the letters are all uniform. I have sooo many markers coz my hb bot permanent makers instead of whiteboard makers (needed by my P2 gal).

I think it is fine to handwrite the cards, just make sure that you write neatly will do.

Thanks!

[porcupine12trade]

tamarind:

porcupine12trade:

Tamarind is it you who reco the book The Lion, the witch and the wardrobe? I found it in the library and my gal loves it, though she has nvr watched Narnia. Anymore books to reco? We are running out of books to borrow, the usual ones she borrows are rainbow magic (i dont like), tiara club (i dont like), magic ballerina, all enid blytons esp the adventure ones, naughty gal, malory towers etc, nancy drew, roald dahl, and others i cant rem.. I have no idea what else to search in the library for her. I buy quite many books too, esp those i feel may benefit my #2, #3.

Hi porcupine12trade,
Yes I recommended the Lion, the witch and the wardrobe in my blog.

I also highly recommend these wonderful books :

Suitable for boys and girls:
Lafcadio The Lion who shot back by Shel Silverstein
Charmed Life by Diana Wynne Jones
The book of dragons by E. Nesbit
Melisande by E. Nesbit
Three tales of My Father's Dragon by Ruth Stiles Gannett
Tales of a fourth grade nothing by Judy Blume
Jenny goes to sea by Esther Averill


The following are good books that girls will love :
The Cobble Street Cousins by Cythia Rylant
The Fairy Rebel by Lynne Reid Banks
No Flying in the House by Betty Brock

These books are many times more interesting than Enid Blyton books.

My kids have also read many wonderful children's classics :
http://tamarindphonics.blogspot.com/2010/03/importance-of-reading-books.html

All books are available in the library and amazon.com, but most cannot be found in local books.

Thanks for the list! I will search for them :)!

[porcupine12trade]

porcupine12trade:

tamarind:

[quote=\"porcupine12trade\"]
Tamarind is it you who reco the book The Lion, the witch and the wardrobe? I found it in the library and my gal loves it, though she has nvr watched Narnia. Anymore books to reco? We are running out of books to borrow, the usual ones she borrows are rainbow magic (i dont like), tiara club (i dont like), magic ballerina, all enid blytons esp the adventure ones, naughty gal, malory towers etc, nancy drew, roald dahl, and others i cant rem.. I have no idea what else to search in the library for her. I buy quite many books too, esp those i feel may benefit my #2, #3.

Hi porcupine12trade,
Yes I recommended the Lion, the witch and the wardrobe in my blog.

I also highly recommend these wonderful books :

Suitable for boys and girls:
Lafcadio The Lion who shot back by Shel Silverstein
Charmed Life by Diana Wynne Jones
The book of dragons by E. Nesbit
Melisande by E. Nesbit
Three tales of My Father's Dragon by Ruth Stiles Gannett
Tales of a fourth grade nothing by Judy Blume
Jenny goes to sea by Esther Averill


The following are good books that girls will love :
The Cobble Street Cousins by Cythia Rylant
The Fairy Rebel by Lynne Reid Banks
No Flying in the House by Betty Brock

These books are many times more interesting than Enid Blyton books.

My kids have also read many wonderful children's classics :
http://tamarindphonics.blogspot.com/2010/03/importance-of-reading-books.html

All books are available in the library and amazon.com, but most cannot be found in local books.

Thanks for the list! I will search for them :)![/quote]Hi Tamarind,

If the list that you reco is exhausted, do u think its wise to go for other titles written by the same author? I searched \"charmed life\" in library cat and saw some interesting titles under the same author.

[tamarind]

porcupine12trade:

Hi Tamarind,

If the list that you reco is exhausted, do u think its wise to go for other titles written by the same author? I searched \"charmed life\" in library cat and saw some interesting titles under the same author.

Yes you can definitely get other titles by the same author. My girl also enjoyed reading Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones, very complicated plot, highly original and imaginative. But the book is over 400 pages long, kids may not be attracted to it at first The Lives of Christoper Chant, another book in the same series as Charmed Life, is also very interesting.

Forget to mention Prince Caspian, the sequel to The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. Both books are equally exciting. Actually these books are part of the Chronicles of Narnia, there are a total of 7 books in this series, all are worth reading.

[porcupine12trade]

tamarind:

porcupine12trade:

Hi Tamarind,

If the list that you reco is exhausted, do u think its wise to go for other titles written by the same author? I searched \"charmed life\" in library cat and saw some interesting titles under the same author.

Yes you can definitely get other titles by the same author. My girl also enjoyed reading Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones, very complicated plot, highly original and imaginative. But the book is over 400 pages long, kids may not be attracted to it at first The Lives of Christoper Chant, another book in the same series as Charmed Life, is also very interesting.

Forget to mention Prince Caspian, the sequel to The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. Both books are equally exciting. Actually these books are part of the Chronicles of Narnia, there are a total of 7 books in this series, all are worth reading.

Hi Tamarind,

Thanks very much for taking precious time to ans my qns, really appreciate that! I was about to ask you about other books in Chronicles of Narnia and you went ahead of me :). I dont like to read (paiseh :oops: ), hence dont know much about books, i only read craft books hahaha.

[tamarind]

milo66:

Thanks Tamarind for your recomendation. I hope I can succeed in teaching him Chinese myself. He will still attend school in US but seeing the no of holidays there, i doubt will be sufficient

Getting him to read aloud to me everyday as suggested in ur blog. He is in P&J Book 5a now and actually the school has completed the 3 letter phonics with him. Jus realise that he has no initiative in trying to sound the words himself! Have to depend on me to break up for me unless i prompt him to. So now wat i did was buy book of lower standard for him and hopefully will encourage him to read instead of ME reading to him. Am i doing the right thing?

Jus to check with you. When u make ur kids read aloud to you, wat happen if they meet some new words that they dunno? Mine refuse to try sounding by phonics so most of the time i will have to tell him else cannot go on liao. any suggestion?

Will continue to jiayou cos i believe no matter how good the school and system is, without the parents emphasizing at home, its also useless. Thanks!

Hi milo66,
My boy also does not break up the letter sounds when he reads a word. But I know that he is doing it \"secretly\" in his brain, he likes to pretend to be cool and does not like to show that he is trying hard at something.

If we are sure that a child knows phonics very well, then it is not necessary to make him show you how to break up the sounds when he reads. This may disrupt the flow of reading, and makes reading less enjoyable.

The way to make sure that he really knows phonics, is to test if he can spell any 3 letter words.

Yes it is fine to buy lower standards of books for him to read for enjoyment, this is the right thing to do because kids will be motivated to read books are easy for them. The Peter and Jane books are \"study books\" meant for teaching kids to read more difficult books progressively, and should not be the only books that kids read.

[porcupine12trade]

Hi Tamarind


My son loves english books and many times he will pretend he can read and "read" according to the picture or his memory. Yet when I teach him phonics blending, he loose interest v fast. Is it because the word cards are boring? Is there any book reco on simple 3 letter words, i think it would be more interesting if i can show him pictures. Thanks

[tamarind]

porcupine12trade:

Hi Tamarind


My son loves english books and many times he will pretend he can read and \"read\" according to the picture or his memory. Yet when I teach him phonics blending, he loose interest v fast. Is it because the word cards are boring? Is there any book reco on simple 3 letter words, i think it would be more interesting if i can show him pictures. Thanks

porcupine12trade,
When I teach my boy, I used real objects, and also try to let him do the action together with me. For example, when I teach the word \"jog\", I get my boy to jog together with me.

I also play games with the cards, like mixing them up, and ask my boy to arrange them in the correct groups, or read a word and ask him to pick up the correct word.

If I really cannot find any real object or demonstrate the action, I will look for the pictures in the internet to show him