Comparing Pre-school English Reading and Phonics Enrichment

[Charmaine_chong]

Hi keylee,


I would suggest Lcentral ad I see good result in my p1 child.

My k1 daughter (4.5 yo) reads peter n Jane book 4b now. She could blend the words herself nut still need a lot of guidance to help herRECOGNIZE the words. She will attend Lcentral program starting this
I suggest you to read loads of easy story books to her, perhaps 1 hour daily get books like Eric carle, Dr suess, I cab read series, etc to begin with. Teach her letter sound, words begin with the letter , help her to listen to the 1st sound, last sound and lastly middle sound. Focus on this first. Then slowly introduce sight words to her, 3 to 10 words depends on her ability.

The key is parents must read n teach or do revision with the child at home,solely depending on school and enrichment is a bit hard to see great improvement.

Do pm me if u need help or useful websites to begin with.

[bluewaters]

Hi all, my son is now 3.5 yrs old, in Nursery 2 level. Since he was 2, I started teaching him word recognition using self-made word cards. He can recognise a good number of words but I never keep track of how many words he really can recognise. Recently he has shown great interest in wanting to read on his own & I’m currently using the Ladybird Peter and Jane Keywords books to help him to learn to read (now on Book 2a). However, I’m starting to worry that I may not be teaching him well enough as whenever I read to him books other than Peter and Jane Keywords, he will point out words and keep asking me how to read the words.

In school he has started learning the basics of phonics but the school will not be teaching blending words till K1 level. I’m at a loss when it comes to phonics as I have no idea how to teach that.
I’m now wondering if I should enrol my son in phonics/reading programme to help him maintain or enhance his interest in reading on his own. I’m not very keen to enrol him in enrichment classes as he’s already going to school but seeing his great interest in trying to read and my limited ability to teach him to read is just making me all confused.
Hope to get advice on whether I should continue teaching on my own based on word recognition technique (as this is the only way I know how to teach him) or enrol him in phonics/reading classes?
For phonics/reading classes, any advice on which is good - eg: LCentral, I Can Read, etc. Thank you in advance!

[Dec]

Hi,

Anyone heard of young genius Montessori enrichment?
Any feedback of this centre?
TIA

[janiz]

My girl is in n2 now and her cc is still revising the letter sounds with them. I think the cc will start to cover first sounds soon. Is it consider slow? I tot at this level, they shld start blending already? Any mummies can share their experiences? Tks!

[buds]

Hi janiz. Your girl's cc is on track and you're fortunate that the cc is even introducing phonemic awareness because there are centres that do not offer phonics during their cc curriculum hours. Why did you think at this level they should start blending? :scratchhead:


Blending can start at K1. The children are more mature by then to have learnt some of the blending techniques and perfected the pronunciation of their letter sounds.

[janiz]

Hi buds, thanks for your fast reply! Coz i see my nephew can start to read by himself at n2. But then again, he attended ICR so maybe thats the reason why he is more advanced? So the pace is considered ok lah? In that case i shall relax abit hehe

[buds]

Never compare between individual children.


Some children have early exposure.

http://www.kiasuparents.com/kiasu/forum/viewtopic.php?p=958769#p958769

Some children have lotsa stimuli at very young age to pair with their sensitive periods for picking up language.

> http://www.kiasuparents.com/kiasu/forum/viewtopic.php?p=958492#p958492

Others will read at their own time, own target.

At this age, lotsa hands-on and lotsa learning thru play. When you engage them in fun activities, you are also stimulating their language abilities. While parents are keen on having early readers in their children, just doing reading activities can be stressful on a young child/children. They should not be tested on reading skills at this point.

Some sharings for fun activities with our children.

> http://www.kiasuparents.com/kiasu/content/tackling-home-teaching-3-children
> http://www.kiasuparents.com/kiasu/content/introduction-early-science

[janiz]

Thanks for sharing buds!!

[buds]

You are welcome, janiz.


In the meantime, you can work some fun reinforcements at home with her.
Some sharings here.. > http://www.kiasuparents.com/kiasu/forum/viewtopic.php?f=94&t=5768&hilit=Montessori+Phonics

[janiz]

I juz glanced thru and wow, you r such an expert buds!


I tried tamarind’s method of teaching blending before but my girl dun understand the concept. Or maybe i’m a lousy teacher coz i dun have confidence to teach phonics! My girl is attending montessori sch so i shall see how i can incorporate your method in my home teaching, coz i believe the sch is using the similar method as yours already