Its very effective actually… because i recommended my colleague to send her 2 girls there. Her younger girl, who is only Pri 2 can now write very well, almost near Pri 4 standard as she finds it very easy to learn those phrases that the teachers teach. She would often recite paragraphs of compositions that she has learnt. Read some of her compositions and must say they are more interesting with varied sentence structure and good vocab used.


The other girl who is pri 6 this year also attends the Math tuition at The Alternative Story. In her CA that just passed, heard from my colleague that she improved more than 30 marks to score 73. She was previously struggling to even pass her Math in all the CA’s and SA’s. My colleague was so happy she called me immediately to tell me about it. I’m very glad that both her girls have shown significant improvement just after about 5 months of tuition.

Michteach:

Hi MelodyXOXO,


I am not sure about the full range, I have not heard of Freedom writers or the Blind Side, are they books based on the shows? Anyway, I will pm you their contacts so you can find out more.

They have Percy Jackson.Their vocab phrases are free, comes with the book. They provide a file for phrases too..

Wow that's interesting to hear.. I remember extracting vocab words whenever i read when i was younger and copying it into a book where i would write all the meaning of the words from the dictionary.

By the way, do you know if they carry the series \"Diary of a whimpy kid\"?

Hi all,


Care to share what you guys think about the series "Diary of a whimpy kid"? Saw the trailer in the cinemas recently and have many colleague’s children reading it and buying up all the books in the series. It didn’t really appeal to me though…

What are some of the other books that will interest kids around the age of 9 to 10? Am trying to kick start some good reading habits in my nieces and nephews. How do you encourage them to speak proper English too?
They seem to automatically lapse into Singlish wherever they are yet find such difficulty speaking in proper English.

Am getting a bit worried as they don’t do very well in their oral scores.

TIA!

hi buds,


okay sure! will pm the other users instead… thanks for informing!

I’ve heard of tuition centres which uses acting, speech and drama, and giving out points to encourage students to learn more than just studying. Think it helps a lot, and whatever is taught goes way beyond just academics. Know one tuition centre called Alternative Story which does that. My kid attended the creative writing workshop they held in his school at Blangah Rise Primary.