In It’s a piece of cake we use Jolly Phonics to teach children aged 5 to 8. and Jolly Phonics is a child centred approach to teaching writing and reading skills, developped by UK teachers. Children learn the 42 letter sounds in a specific order, not alphabetically, so they are able to build words easier and faster….
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Dyslexia in the English as a foreign language classroom
DYSLEXIA, WHAT DOES IT MEAN? Dyslexia is a reading disability caused by a defect in the brain’s processing of graphic symbols, but it is not an illness and it is not rare. A lot of people have dyslexia, and not only children. Many kids with dyslexia worry that there is something wrong with them, they can…
Grammatical Awareness Activities
1. Colour parsing Language: Present Simple/ general questions Materials: coloured chalk, coloured pencils Time: 20-30 min Four colours are needed: red for verbs (‘like’, ’love’, ’hate’); blue for subject pronouns (‘I’, ’you’, ’she’, ’he’, ’etc’.); yellow for auxiliary verbs (‘do’, ‘does’) and green for nouns for food (‘pizza’, ‘coffee’, ‘tea’, ‘bananas’, ‘tomatoes’). The teacher divides…
Orthographic Awareness Activities
1. Magic “e” The teacher draws a chart on the board with the words ‘mad’, ‘win’, ‘hop’ and ‘cut’ on the first column. The teacher and the students read the words together, paying attention to the vowel sounds. Then the teacher asks the students to write these words again adding the ‘e’ at the end…
Activities for Developing Phonological Awareness and the awareness of sound-letter relations
1. Segmenting compound words and sentences into words. The students say ‘toothbrush’ without a ‘tooth’; ‘rainbow’ without ‘bow’, ‘girlfriend’ without ‘girl’. The students listen to the teacher reading a sentence and place a marker from the left to the right for each word heard. The fat cat is on the mat …
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