In the first session I'll be doing a short introduction, maximising children learning progress, tips on how to guide your child to recognise letters and spell through memory using various resources and after that go through the teaching of letter 'a'. These tips are very helpful as it is how my kids picked up good spelling and reading skills. In subsequent sessions, you will be taught how to teach from letter ‘b’ to ‘z’ (2 activities and craftwork per letter) and will be given the detailed lesson plans, song lists, prepared craft work and material. You will get to practise phonics prompting to teach your child spell easily. After each training session, I will share tips on how to use home environment and resources to help your child learn in different areas. At home, you are supposed to teach your child one letter per week depending on the age of your child.
This phonics training is not just learning the sounds of the letters. It will be meaningless if you don't have an all-rounded lesson plan to support it to make it interesting. With the prepared materials, you just need to do some touch up on the craft, follow the lesson plan, execute it and if done well, a meaningful lesson will entice your kids (cannot be just listening to phonics and worksheets at this young age, it's simply too boring). Not only will they learn phonics but concurrently picking up words as you link it, enjoying the activity and will look forward to it. During the half year to a year of teaching your child from a to z, reading books to them and with them is the second essential stage to have reading foundation. That's why I want to share all that I went through with my kids on successful reading with the mummies.
Effective phonics CD set is very important. Usually kids won't pick up much in playgroup as the group is too big and parents at home are not able to reinforce the phonics taught without the CD and book. My son now 5 cannot remember the phonics he learnt in PCF but can remember clearly every rhymes and songs I taught in this very good phonics set called - "Phonics Songs and Rhymes. It's rhyme is catchy and the phonics song is short, sweet and can relate. But by listening can be meaningless coz kids need to link it with activities that introduce words that relates to the phonics for eg. after phonics 'a' sound, we introduce a for apple (picture), then introduce the word (a-p-p-l-e), then do craft activity, sing song and rhymes or games all relating to apple. Teaching this way will allow kids to interlink phonics and words and definitely learn one thing or another. So in this course, you will be taught the songs to sing, action to do, what games to play, how to do the craftwork etc.
In this course, not only will you learn phonics to teach your child but also how to APPLY the phonics sounds effectively so that you child will learn how to spell easily. When we are a able to reinforce phonics with reading and when we can prompt our kids in any day to day situation how to spell, they will pick up very fast. Once a child is able to spell and read, we need to keep reading with them and help them sustain the reading interest by offering a variety of books which will further enhance his English language. Thus, the selection of books for our kids to read is the next major important step to successful reading.
I understand that some mummies had reservations about my course. That's why after the first session, you pay ONLY if you want to continue the next session. Of course, it's good to complete all sessions so that you can complete the whole series of teaching 'a' to 'z'. I really hope parents can learn through this course and teach their children themselves effectively. It's great bonding time with the children too, doing things together. I believe this will benefit your child just as it has benefitted mine :-)
You can also email me at
jann@hotmail.sg or
jannalin_mrc@hotmail.com or hp 9734 2234 if you have any other concerns.
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