Letter Land

AugSun

Many thanks to the good advice all the time   

ALAL

Jokey,
Would you share more on the following when you teach your kid phonics?

After you do the blending games with her, do she automatic know how to read out the words in English books?

And can she use phonic for dictation i.e. when she hear an English word, she can dictate it out by phonics ( I assume your kid is in local school so dictation will cover some phonetically difficult word like 'ow' 'ou' sound)?

I learn from BK mums that the Phonic Kingdom set is quite good. It put the blending games on VCD. That's exactly what I want because my son don't like to play the blending puzzle game. That is a very good supplement to Letterland. I hope this set can help.

loumaomao

Can I have this info too?  Thanks a lot

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tsztsz 寫道:
我都想要35間letterland中心資料比我呀？

thanks!


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cyanmama

May I have this information too?

Thank you very much !   

Jokey2828

Hi ALAL,

Q - After you do the blending games with her, do she automatic know how to read out the words in English books?

A - I have not particularly checked this with her. But after a blending game, when I show her the sight words again, she usually has no difficulty in sounding them out.

Q - And can she use phonic for dictation i.e. when she hear an English word, she can dictate it out by phonics (I assume your kid is in local school so dictation will cover some phonetically difficult word like 'ow' 'ou' sound)?

A - Basically, she can apply phonics to her dictation. When there is an anomaly, I simply tell her that the word is naughty. Yet my observation is that even for exceptional words, they tend to come in groups. My child once came across BRIGHT /brait/. She did not seem to be able to spell it very well. As she knew how to spell RIGHT, I drew her attention to it. With a click of her mind, she got the spelling BRIGHT correct, and forever after.
  
When it comes to spelling, I think even if a child knows all the letter combinations that produce the same sound, still he/she needs to remember when to use which.

ALAL

thank you Jokey,

I will try hard this summer.

yellow

各位有用LETTERLAND既MAMI:
我囡囡而家2歲2個月,想請問我應該要買邊本呢??
1.EARLY YEARS HANDBOOK
2.ELT TEACHER'S GUIDE
3.TEACHER'S GUIDE
4.ADVANCED TEACHER'S GUIDE
THX     

yellow

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各位有用LETTERLAND既MAMI:
我囡囡而家2歲2個月,想請問我應該要買邊本呢??
1.EARLY YEARS HANDBOOK
2.ELT TEACHER'S GUIDE
3.TEACHER'S GUIDE
4.ADVANCED TEACHER'S GUIDE
THX     

yellow

up!
各位有用LETTERLAND既MAMI:
我囡囡而家2歲2個月,想請問我應該要買邊本呢??
1.EARLY YEARS HANDBOOK
2.ELT TEACHER'S GUIDE
3.TEACHER'S GUIDE
4.ADVANCED TEACHER'S GUIDE
THX     

Jokey2828

Hi yellow,

There seems to have been some changes to the Letterland products since the day I bought them. If the contents remain unchanged, I would suggest Teacher's Guide and the Advanced Teacher's Guide.

However, before you make up your mind, please read:

http://www.letterland.com/Parents/Parents_1.html

yellow

Jokey2828:
THX...

yellow

做咩咁靜o既?????hello...有冇人呀??   
不如講吓大家用letterland既進度吖!!

lamsuetwai

RE: PHONICS LETTERLAND

I just take a look for the letterland handbook at the training ctr. And find that Programme 3 is quite good for learn blending and teach some rules of phonics such as:

When two vowel goes walking, the first one keep talking and the second one keep scient and introduce scient e. etc.

Anyone knows other than Letterland, any others books/ websites can introduce this kind of Phonics rules. As i plan to buy the Letterland Handbook but it is quite expensive around $300 plus, but i can't find at public library .

Tks in advance.

yellow

lamsuetwai:
Is it ELT TEACHER'S GUIDE($320)????

Jokey2828

Hello there,

I suddenly realized that I have been using Letterland for 2.5 years, and it seems that I am only at the beginning. How is everybody's progress?

Cheers!

yellow 寫道:

不如講吓大家用letterland既進度吖!!

ALAL

jokey and other mums,

Won't any mum who know what is the rule in dividing syllables? How to teach child to identify syllables? Seems this is not covered in Letterland ?

tft

Yellow

I have got the Early Year Handbook and Teacher Handbook. The Early Year Handbook is not so useful if you will buy the Teacher Handbook. Teacher Handbook is useful since I also learn phonics from it. I scan the pictures and make some funny cards for my son. Now I am considering the Advanced Teacher Handbook. However, it is too expensive. If you will buy it, could you pls lend it to me so that I can learn and prepare cards with it.

tft

ALAL and Jokey2828
You also have much experience in Letterland, could you pls help me solve the problem. Letterland is british accent while we learnt different accent under Hong Kong special enviroment. I found that most people in Hong Kong mix up the a sound (when it is annie apple) with e sound (eddy elephant). Just like the 'a' in 'after' is british, 'a' in 'bad' is American accent, 'dance' is sometimes british sometimes American. I can't change all my pronunciation from mixing accent to pure british accent. How is your practice? Thank you very much.

jf830

Dear marieyuen,

I just started to teach my son Letterland.  I would like to know if you teach your child by purely English, or you will use Cantonese to tell the story?  Besides, I would like to know if the Parents training course organised by Letterland is worthwile to join?