Guess what!? Elden has completed the first part of Stage 1. His Part 1 reading list reward chart is full of stickers! I printed Part 2 and we’re ready for more reading challenges!
By speaking English at home, it makes learning reading a whole lot easier. Most of the time, I wouldn’t need to explain the meeting of the words.
When it comes to letter G, Elden can connect with some familiar rhymes like ‘frog in a bog’. Other Read more »
Elden is learning to read more and more new words. He’s doing well and enjoys learning reading! Lesson 13-15 introduces new letters like O, H and N. As he is learning phonics from school, it is not difficult to teach him some new words with these letters. Elden will always try to read the choppy blending method before attempting smooth blending method. When he started to be confident and recognizes certain words at sight, he will skip choppy blending and reads it right away. Read more »
Elden Trying to Spot the Word ‘THE’ and Circling All Of It
Lesson 12 of the Children Learning Reading is rather simple. Child will learn about the word ‘THE’. This word is not read phonetically so do not try hard. According to Jim Yang, author of Children Learning Reading, the word ‘THE’ is a sight word.
What I did with Elden this time is just show the card at him and read it as it is. He managed to read it but the word looked rather unusual to him because all the while, any word introduced to him has a vowel in between and he reads it phonetically. Read more »
We didn’t learn new words few a days so as to give Elden some time to reflect on the words he learnt to read before lesson 9. I rather he go slow and steady than hurry and bulky. Anyway, learning reading for children should be an enjoyable journey. Not a destination. On and off, I’ll handpick some words from previous lessons for him to read. If he reads it more confidently, then I know he ready to proceed and accept more new words. Read more »
My jaw dropped! Elden came to me with his sticker reward chart and asked me ‘Mummy, are you ready for reading lessons today?’ I was pleasantly surprised. As a matter of fact, I wasn’t ready. So I told him, “I’ll be ready after you keep your toys”. Just to keep him occupied while I head towards my printer and printed out the reading list for him.
It was a review reading lesson for Elden. All the words taught from lesson 1-6 are reviewed in lesson 7-8. I would think it is very important to review so as to retain his memory on words taught to him. I cut these cards out and kept them in a box so that I can flash at him anytime of the day. Read more »
Ok. Elden got 3 reward stickers yesterday for going through 3 reading lessons with me. He was super high spirit when I asked him ‘Are you ready for your reading lessons?’. ‘Yes, mummy!!,’ he answered with full of excitement. At the end of today lesson (4-6), he was proud to have achieve some reading ability. I’m not sure if I did ‘overpraise’ him by repeatedly saying ‘very good’ and ‘clever boy’! But if it worked like wonders, I might as well continue, haha! Read more »
I just started my son, Elden on the Children Learning Reading program today. He is holding the reading lessons list and all prepared for his reading lessons. Of course, the reward stickers did the trick!
Since he already know some letters and the phonic sounds associated to it, I conducted lesson 1-3 at once sitting. Read more »
Children Learning Reading program
Many of us have been using English in our daily life. We listen, read, speak and write everyday. But when it comes to teaching young children to read, we may not know where to start. The Children Learning Reading program is a step-by-step guide that helps us as busy parents to teach children to read. At stage 1, it begins with the simplest lesson 1 with letter ‘A’ and ends with lesson 28 letter ‘X’. In between the lessons, many letters and phonics are introduced with text an audio. Children will learn four important things, which are: