k3 睇 magic tree house, 仲有咩書好睇？

Obiepapa

原帖由 HKTHK 於 14-03-27 發表
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This looks like an early chapter book.  But I assume you are reading these to  ...

ORT is mainly for self reading. I think by the time he goes to P1 in four months he can read this himself. Good thing is treetops comes with CDs. He can just learn it by listening from iPad. Macmillan series is the one I used for guide reading. It covers two areas: science and social life. Will post some samples here.

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HKTHK

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If he can't listen to Charlie and the Chocolate Factory but is reading ORT close to Treetop, the gap in reading and listening comprehension is much smaller than I thought.  You might want to check his comprehension.  No hurry in reading more difficult books anyway.  I really don't see much benefit in kids reading Harry Potter at 7 and a lot of kids are doing it.  Better to read age appropriate materials than difficult books.

Obiepapa

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Why hard to balance both languages?  I do the exact same things in Chinese.  W ...

I don't find any good Chinese books. So he is just doing 漢華閱讀理解, to pick up some Chinese characters. I think most articles are poorly written in Chinese, hard to read it in mandarin. For putonghua, it has to be learned from the good pieces that I have posted here in another thread.

HKTHK

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I like those passages you posted and they are well written.  I do also find them dry and boring especially for K3.  I took a different route.  Read them picture books and early chapter books in Chinese to get them reading first.  Once they read on their own, I then select better written books.  You also have to think about the balance.  If one side is dry and boring and the other side is fun stories that the child can read on their own, which one do you think they will prefer?  It is much easier to balance if they are reading interesting books in both languages.

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You might not consider them well written but there are plenty of early chapter books in Chinese
http://www.edu-kingdom.com/forum.php?mod=viewthread&tid=2582199&extra=page%3D1

S-Kwok

HKTHK 發表於 14-3-27 23:52
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This looks like an early chapter book.  But I assume you are reading these to  ...

"reading himself" 其實係咪指小朋友自己讀及明白書中內容, 無需每個字識讀及了解呢?
我跟小朋友GE情況係咁GE:-
1) 仔仔會自己睇一啲佢有興趣GE書, 即使係較深GE書或FACT BOOK, 我知仔唔會每頁每字睇, 佢只會選佢有興趣GE嚟睇

2) 仔仔亦會睇一啲啱佢GE程度嚟睇 (eg Mr Men and Little Miss), 佢會睇得好快, 但我確定他是明白的, 因為我仔會要求我讀比佢聽, 而我讀之前, 有時會問吓佢內容或叫佢介紹吓人物, 佢講到.

3) 我會要求仔仔讀一些early chapter book, 這些書大部份係仔仔未睇過, 因為佢自己唔會主動攞呢啲書睇，如 Usborne Young Reading, 目的想guide 住仔仔慢慢可以自己睇到chapter book, 睇吓仔仔識唔識讀, 明唔明白內容及想仔睇吓其他書

4) 仔會要我讀一些故事書給他聽, 但這些書多為佢睇過, 亦合乎他的程度。

依上面睇, 其實我仲有冇需要要求仔仔讀比我聽呢？又我讀比仔仔聽ＧＥ書, 係咪應該選啲程度較深GE書呢? 好似我喺選擇為仔仔讀ＧＥ書方面選擇錯了。　

希望各位比啲意見。謝謝

HKTHK

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No need to know every single word.  You should look into the 5 finger rule, i.e. the child should have at most 5 unknown words on a page.
The reading strategies for fiction and non-fiction are different and there is no need to read every word of non-fiction from beginning to end.

I almost always read books that they cannot read on their own to them unless I am trying to have a discussion about a particular topic.  As long as they can understand it, you can read it to them.

S-Kwok

HKTHK 發表於 14-3-28 16:45
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No need to know every single word.  You should look into the 5 finger rule, i.e. ...

Thank you.  I understand now.  

S-Kwok

HKTHK 發表於 14-3-28 16:45
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No need to know every single word.  You should look into the 5 finger rule, i.e. ...

"I almost always read books that they cannot read on their own to them unless I am trying to have a discussion about a particular topic.  As long as they can understand it, you can read it to them."<==諗諗吓, 又唔係好明tim.　意思係小朋友因書的內容較深, 佢地睇唔明, 所以唔可以自己睇, 或小朋友因為無興趣睇, 咁家長就可以選擇這些書讀比小朋友聽? 但始終都要貫徹5 finger rule?

HKTHK

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I only use 5-finger rule for self reading.  I think you are over-thinking a lot of these things.  If you are reading a book to them and they seem to enjoy and understand it, continue and don't stop!  

S-Kwok

HKTHK 發表於 14-3-28 19:38
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I only use 5-finger rule for self reading.  I think you are over-thinking a lot  ...

可能我真的想得太多了

yeeyeey2k

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I only use 5-finger rule for self reading.  I think you are over-thinking a lot  ...

多謝晒你，我諗我開始明白點教/陪仔女閱讀喇。

王家爸爸

Magic Tree House: Night of the New Magicians
www.youtube.com/watch?v=JN1_dmUKydM

Obiepapa

Sorry for the late reply cos we have been busy the whole week for the rugby games and parties. At this stage, my goal is to get him the sense of language 語感. I cannot find any book out there could achieve this. Stories interesting or not, it is not my concern. This could be quite argumentative for a young kid. So far I know he has been reading it with my guidance and not against to it. I just hope that the vocabulary he has built up along the way would benefit his academic in the future. He will surely pick his own reading directions when he grows. I will not control and I could not control.

Give you some ideas what I am trying to do. Here are the two sentences or say paragraphs (with the rest from the other thread)  that I am trying to compare between the two languages. You probably have seen them:

天空還是一片淺藍，很淺很淺的。轉眼間天水相接的地方出現了一道紅霞，紅霞的範圍慢慢擴大，越來越亮。

The blazing red paint sparkled with an iridescent cherry glow. The lighting danced across the car like a chorus line.

Obiepapa

Thanks I will go and check this out as well.