Comparing Pre-school English Reading and Phonics Enrichment

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joyti:

hi,all.

I have a daughter in K2.just shifed here from india.My daughter is not able to read herself.i have to sit with her.not showing much interest in reading.how to generate interest and which books should I bye for her.
thanks

Just spotted this on mumcentre. You may want to give it a try. Free Trial lesson at http://www.mrssam.com.sg/.

I am a super kiasu parent. I already exposure my baby to reading and he loves it. Take a look at his http://babysamson.weebly.com/learn.html. The key is to choose age appropriate books, but also take cue from her english level to choose a suitable one.
:idea:

[Bowie]

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Hi All,

Planning to send my gal to Zoo Kids program under Zoophonics School in Jurong West.

Anyone have experience with that center?

[cantbearit2]

Hi all KSP,


I have actually enrolled both my girls in Zoophonics based on the reviews here.

I din regret it. Both girls are enjoying their weekly class. In fact, my K1 girl actually looks forward to gg to the class.

My younger one (25 mths old) oso like the class. Of course at her age, some parts of the lesson, she got distracted. Either wan biscuit, wan her "chow chow", wan water, wan this wan that.

Overall, I will still say it’s a good start for building the foundation of reading skills.

Prior to this, I actually sit in with my K1 girl at one of those "read in a week" trial class. It was yawning all the way for me. Can’t bear to put her thru’ such "torture". Zzzzzz…

[Bowie]

Hi Cantbearit2,


Which Zoophonic school you attend?

Planning to send my gal to the one at Jurong West. Not sure if its good.

[einstein]

Hi,


I am keen to put my kid in MMI Phonics at Jurong East. Does anyone has any experience with any good recommended teachers there?

Alternatively, do you have any recommended good home based MMI Phonics program in Bukit Batok area?

Any advice would be good. Thanks in advance.

[shuerei]

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Hi,

My gal is 15 mths old and I'm trying to decide on the best Phonics system for her – one which is comprehensive right up to grammer level and which she can follow through till K2.

I'm considering the following:
Montessori
Zoophonics
Letterland
Jolly Phonics
Phonics Zoo (Star Phonics)

Can someone advise me on the strengths and weaknesses of each system?
Also, is it ok to use different system at different stages of learning? Eg. Learn single and double sounds using Phonics Zoo, switch to Zoophonics at later stage.

Thanks a lot!

[buds]

Heyya there,

Yes, its ok to swap methods.
15mths good to do fun kinda phonics.
Letterland offers that. With songs, crafts,
stories and rhymes.

You may wanna read the already polled threads under this link,
http://www.kiasuparents.com/kiasu/forum/viewtopic.php?t=584

[koko51sg]

Different phonics systems have different methods of categorising and grouping the lessons. It would be more advisable to stick to one system and use not more than 2 different systems.


Letterland, Zoophonics uses characters (animals or people) to help children learn the beginning letter sounds. There are songs, crafts, activities as part of their lesson.

Star phonics - uses songs to teach letter sounds, thereafter crafts, story books relating to the sounds.

Montessori - uses sandpaper letters, tactile letters (moveable alphabets) for word building (spelling) and reading. It begins with learning letter sounds, 3-letter phonetic words (pink level), longer phonetic words (blue level) and phonograms (green level) thereafter grammar (black level).

Over the years, I’ve used these systems but I still prefer Montessori because it is very structured and easy to pinpoint exactly where the child’s learning is at. As can be seen from Montessori’s curriculum, she builds the skills of children from 3 letter phonetic words (eg cat, hat, log, bug) to longer phonetic words (eg blimp, clamp, lemon, basket, etc) to phonograms - which is the long vowel sounds (eg cake, rake, cold, sold, lawyer, pawn, prawn, etc)

Reading is quite a difficult task for children and sometimes they get discouraged when they are unable to read certain words, in other systems I feel sometimes, they mixed the phonetic words and non-phonetic words together, and if the child hasn’t learnt that yet, they can’t read.

But for a 15-month old - you are just introducing the letter sounds. Just make it fun, lots of repetition, hands-on and sensorial (eg if you teach letter S - show her a snake puppet, make a snake puppet, collect things that start with S). At this stage, she still can’t write or even hold a crayon properly, so for her to do craft can be challenging but not impossible (just have to do lots of preparation before hand). A story would be good.

Hope this helps.

[buds]

Montessori has definite duration of completion.

ie. 10mths to 12mths completion. But compared
to all other methodologies, Montessori is a little
dry - no songs, stories, rhymes within the curriculum
but a creative teacher will do the job very well.
Children start reading the fastest with Montessori
method.

Fun ones Letterland, Jolly and Zoo with incorporation
of songs, puppet, letter characters, etc. Some parents
find too much of animal characters distract children’s
attention from the letter and letter sounds itself, so its
really a subjective choice.

koko51sg,

Blue Scheme covers blends.
>2 or 3 consonants blends
Example :-
bl, cl, fl, gl, pl, sl
br, cr, fr, gr, pr, tr
spl, spr, squ

>Double consonants like ll, tt.

Green Scheme has :-
>long vowels
>split vowels
>exception rules

Black Scheme has :
>grammar
>singular / plural

[buds]

More threads here on learning Phonics, for your easy reference.


http://www.kiasuparents.com/kiasu/forum/viewtopic.php?t=877


http://www.kiasuparents.com/kiasu/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1038


http://www.kiasuparents.com/kiasu/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1927


http://www.kiasuparents.com/kiasu/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1260


http://www.kiasuparents.com/kiasu/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1556