tigger,
no lah! haha.. I am also v lazy. S definitely do not have a love for reading. I had to try my best to read every night or on the car and try to get him involved. Other than that, its only when he is real bored before he will get a book to read on his own.
J has a natural love for reading ... so dun need me to cultivate. In fact, other than the last 1 month or so, I had never really read to them regularly.... too tired most of the time.
I decided to teach them phonics blend last month when I went back to work... cos felt maybe since they already know the letter sound so well already, its time. So I started trying with all the words ending with "AT", then I found they actually understand the concept of word blends. So I move on to expand to "AG", "AS" etc etc. Slowly we expand and expand .... and I let them build their sight word reading library by watching "Meet the sight words" DVDs.
That's how they became more confident and slowly start to read sentences I wrote for them on a card using the words I know they can read. Then every other day, I introduce a new sight word either from what we speak or a book that I am trying to get them to read. In addition, I introduce groups of word every other day like those ending with "AT", "OX", "IT" etc.
I also picked a few good books like "Green eggs and Ham", Ladybird readers to read to them very often or once every other day... and as I read, slowly I omit a few words, to let them read for me. Within one month, they can read simple books by themselves already.
But having interest in reading really helps. Thus even though I teach both of them together, J can read better than S. In fact J has a bigger reading vocabulary compared to S, even though S speaks better.
But their mandarin is still not at conversational stage yet... worrying. I am thinking of ways to rescue their chinese hehee
no lah! haha.. I am also v lazy. S definitely do not have a love for reading. I had to try my best to read every night or on the car and try to get him involved. Other than that, its only when he is real bored before he will get a book to read on his own.
J has a natural love for reading ... so dun need me to cultivate. In fact, other than the last 1 month or so, I had never really read to them regularly.... too tired most of the time.
I decided to teach them phonics blend last month when I went back to work... cos felt maybe since they already know the letter sound so well already, its time. So I started trying with all the words ending with "AT", then I found they actually understand the concept of word blends. So I move on to expand to "AG", "AS" etc etc. Slowly we expand and expand .... and I let them build their sight word reading library by watching "Meet the sight words" DVDs.
That's how they became more confident and slowly start to read sentences I wrote for them on a card using the words I know they can read. Then every other day, I introduce a new sight word either from what we speak or a book that I am trying to get them to read. In addition, I introduce groups of word every other day like those ending with "AT", "OX", "IT" etc.
I also picked a few good books like "Green eggs and Ham", Ladybird readers to read to them very often or once every other day... and as I read, slowly I omit a few words, to let them read for me. Within one month, they can read simple books by themselves already.
But having interest in reading really helps. Thus even though I teach both of them together, J can read better than S. In fact J has a bigger reading vocabulary compared to S, even though S speaks better.
But their mandarin is still not at conversational stage yet... worrying. I am thinking of ways to rescue their chinese hehee
