Collins Introducing English to Young Children: Reading and Writing
A practical teacher guide book for teaching young children to read and write in English.Introducing English to Young Children: Reading and Writing, is a practical guide book, showing teachers how to use the highly-motivating Playful Approach when starting to teach reading and writing to pre-school and lower primary-aged children. There are ideas for creative and meaningful projects and help for teachers to plan, manage and assess lessons. The book explores how children move towards becoming autonomous learners using strategies they have acquired in their first language.
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Contents
1 Acquiring language â The Playful Approach
1.1 Absorbing another language
1.3 Play as a form of learning
2.3 The childâs expectations of the teacher
2.5 Motivation and emotional literacy
3 Listening to the maturing child
4.4 Bringing English into the home
5 Planning, managing and assessing
5.2 Managing the autonomous learner
6.1 Developing autonomy in the classroom
7.2 A multi-strategy English reading scheme
8.4 Stimulating children to handwrite
8.9 Beginning handwriting for L1 non-handwriters
9.5 Recognising patterns of âonset and rimeâ
9.6 Developing analogy strategies
9.10 Introducing first grammar concepts
10.1 Why projects and activities?
10.2 Selecting projects and activities
10.4 Suggested projects or activities
11 Enjoying reading and writing creatively
11.1 Attitudes to creative writing and reading
11.2 Starting from the childâs ideas
11.3 Modelling and scaffolding
11.4 Types of books children can make
About the author
Award-winning author Opal Dunn has many years of experience in teaching children aged up to 8 years, and has trained teachers all over the world. She has also authored picture books for nursery and young primary children, organised Bunko (mini-libraries) for bilingual, multilingual and double children (children growing up with two languages and two cultures) and has written information books and articles for parents. Opal is the co-founder of IATEFL YLT SIG (Young Learners & Teenagers Special Interest Group of the International Association of Teachers of English as a Foreign Language).
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In the evolution of man spoken language preceded written language
