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fifth column · 29th August 2006, 20:44

Definitely phonics.....focus on beginning sounds, start with their names. I don't usually use flashcards, i use a movable alphabet and make simple rhyming words, bat, cat, mat sat, fat, the fat cat sat on the mat.....

But I also agree not to emphasize english writing. These Thai kids have to learn 46 sounds, and the Thais teach them in a strict order. ( They should teach a few sounds and quickly make words from them, to make it more interesting and less drill-like.)

Songs!!!!The kids love my incomphrehensible language because I am so dramatic and I sing.
Games--bingo of every kind. Memory--buy Thai posters of objects, two of them alike. Cut them up and make cards so that you can turn them over and not know what's underneath. Great opportunity to use english vocabulary.

29th August 2006, 20:44	#17 (permalink)
fifth column fifth column is..... New Member Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: witness protection program Posts: 45 vCash: 500 Rep Power: 0	Re: Teaching Young Beginners Definitely phonics.....focus on beginning sounds, start with their names. I don't usually use flashcards, i use a movable alphabet and make simple rhyming words, bat, cat, mat sat, fat, the fat cat sat on the mat..... But I also agree not to emphasize english writing. These Thai kids have to learn 46 sounds, and the Thais teach them in a strict order. ( They should teach a few sounds and quickly make words from them, to make it more interesting and less drill-like.) Songs!!!!The kids love my incomphrehensible language because I am so dramatic and I sing. Games--bingo of every kind. Memory--buy Thai posters of objects, two of them alike. Cut them up and make cards so that you can turn them over and not know what's underneath. Great opportunity to use english vocabulary.