2010年6月16日星期三
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2010年5月5日星期三
Plan B for service learning
In the story telling part, I prepare a story about animals on the farm. After hearing the story with audio, I will show the worksheet to the child (6 questions about the story) to ensure he/she know the task. Then I ask the child to listen carefully again and try to complete the worksheet with my help. We will listen the third time and check the answers. And then I will ask the child to retell the story to help him memorize the words and learn the sentence patterns such as "there be...", "What is it?", "It is...", etc.
It is likely that we will still have time after finishing the story telling part, I chose a video clip "Farm Animal Song" by Peter Weatherall for a relax. The child not only enjoy the funny song and refresh himself but also remember the vocabulary of animals learned before. And we together learn to sing the song.
To enlarge the child's vocabulary of animals and the sentence patterns we have learned before, I also prepare an animal-matching game(http://www.kinderwebgames.com/cat.html). In this online game, the child is asked to listen to the question like "Which is the cat?", and then match the picture of the animal with its proper name.
The teaching is based on the audio-visual learning style with graphic information as well as listening materials.
It is likely that we will still have time after finishing the story telling part, I chose a video clip "Farm Animal Song" by Peter Weatherall for a relax. The child not only enjoy the funny song and refresh himself but also remember the vocabulary of animals learned before. And we together learn to sing the song.
To enlarge the child's vocabulary of animals and the sentence patterns we have learned before, I also prepare an animal-matching game(http://www.kinderwebgames.com/cat.html). In this online game, the child is asked to listen to the question like "Which is the cat?", and then match the picture of the animal with its proper name.
The teaching is based on the audio-visual learning style with graphic information as well as listening materials.
2010年4月7日星期三
2010年3月17日星期三
My favorite video clip about "phonics" for children
When I search Youtube, there are many interesting videos to select. For children who are learning phonics, the goal should be set to be teaching them to pronounce them correctly and make the 26 letters easy for them to remember. I chose this one, taking account for some methodology and theory I learn from SLA course.
At the early learning stage, human (children) prefer to comprehen information/knowledge as a whole. And later, they will gradually develop their analytical thinking and methods to remember things. Moreover, students can be roughly divided into 2 groups: the visual one and the audio one, which means some students receive or comprehend better and faster with the help of charts, circles and other graphic information while some perform better with auditory materials.Taking into all these into consideration, the video fits well with the goal as well as those theories. For one thing, the melody of the song/music is beautiful enough to catch children's attention and they will not feel bored with learning through singing. For another, students can also see pictures of things they are very familiar to appear with every letter, "C" with a cute cat, for example, so those "audio"-type students can also learn the alphabet and pronunciation easily.
Now, let's clip the video and enjoy it again!
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