Hello itinerants all over the world and hive community! What's up with you guys? I hope everyone is having an amazing Holiday. Today is Valentine's day but it ain't really special for me since I'm a type of person that I don't really take Holidays way seriously for I think that this is just one of the business strategies of these business people to increase their sales. It seems just an ordinary day for me. I was doing chores at home, I am managing our family's micro business and doing tutoring lessons with my nieces.
I have already shared my first episode of #StudyWithMyNiece at homeedders community and I'm really excited to share this second episode. Before I start, I just want to thank everyone who supported and gave amazing advices and suggestions on how I can effectively and efficiently improve my teaching style to get her attention.
We are actually now at our second week of tutoring lessons and I am really proud to say that she has really improved a lot. I am still focused on the three letter word blending.She can now read a lot of words and slowly learn different sound combinations too.
As I noticed that she's getting bored with our lessons sometimes, I've also decided to watch cartoon stories so that she can also learn some moral lessons from it.
I eagerly prepare lesson plans for her so we could have a smooth discussion and make use of the time efficiently. I've taught her today about the "Vowel E and I sentences".
She's still struggling reading the sentences in a moderate manner but I'm really glad that she can now read sentences. I am very confident that she'll improve more in the coming days. She still can't read the words at one glance though. She can read them by identifying the first letter and its sound then she combines the subsequent sounds altogether then there's the word. One thing that she also learned is to always capitalize the first letter of the sentence and put a period at the end.
As much as possible I still remain playful and less strict with the lessons so she won't feel pressured too much. I am glad that despite of continuous lesson everyday she won't feel like giving up. I always try to be an animated teacher to make the lessons fun.
Here are the sentences that she learned today,
Ted met Ben.
Ted fed the hens.
The jet is red.
Her net is wet.
Jim and Jill went up the hill.
The mad girl sits on a bin.
That's basically it, please feel free to leave a comment below. Everyone's glad to hear the stories of yours! Just always remember that learning is a lifetime process. You can learn from your experiences, trips and from other people. The world is so vast. Explore and Learn! Traveling isn't is as expensive as you think! There's a so called travelling on a frugal way with a purpose! Stay tuned then.
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This brings to mind a conversion a teacher had with us when I was in school, many years ago. She was talking about the different approaches to teaching reading and her preference was actually that they start reading in the way your niece is, by recognising the letters and the sounds they make as they read the word. Recognition of the word at a glance will then come over time. If they learn by recognition alone, then they don't always differentiate the words so they might see the word "carrot" regularly, then when they see "parrot", which has the same pattern, they would read it as "carrot".
I think it's a good way for her to be reading, because, in my experience, it helps as they moves onto longer words. They gain more independence and confidence in reading, that way.
I agree. I just don't rely on words that rhyme. I make sure that they understand the sound of the letters and how to combine it with the next letters. It's actually confusing specially there are words that if you just combine the letter sounds you would surely misread the word like for example "hid" and "hide". I know she'll learn more along the way I just have to improve her vocabulary and explain to her patiently the rules so she would remember. It's so difficult to teach honestly but I have to because I'm afraid she'll get behind her learning if she wouldn't at least something during this pandemic.
It doesn't help that the English language doesn't always follow the same rules.
Slow and steady is perfectly fine :)
I've found it's sometimes easier to get them to write when they're working with something they're interested in. With my kids, when they were younger we did a lot of writing exercises in the form of roleplaying notes. We'd play our roleplaying game, and then I would get them to dictate to me a summary of the session as they remembered it, and then they would have to copy it out.
Eventually they got fast and familiar enough with the words and letters to write them out themselves.
Playful and less strict is a great way to approach things :D and yay for improvements :D
I always think about teaching slowly but surely. I think she really likes writing a lot. I noticed she's good at writing and listening. Role playing notes sound really interesting would definitely try that. Thank you for stopping by. Have a wonderful day!
I see you posted this in the OCD community. Just aheads up to let you know that this community is trying to discourage posting in there if there are more relevant communities for your content. There is the Education community that this would fit in and of course HomeEdders, which is currently in the OCD community incubation program. Part of our duty is to try and steer authors to the most suitable communities for their content to get the best audience.
Hello @homeedders. Thanks for letting me know and for always being here in my posts about my niece's journey to learning the English language. I would now post education relation articles in homeedders. Thanks. Have a wonderful day! <3
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