The first time when I taught English for my elementary students I felt confused. Idid not know much how to teach. At that time English materials was around how to master grammatical structers. No wonder not only my students but also I loooked bored. It was my bad experience.
Teaching English for kids is not difficult if we know the way which we come into . In this case, we have to know the art how to teach them. The folowing description will open your mind how to treat them;
1. Take listening and speaking among the four language skills, especially for lower grades. The baby starts learing mother tongue language through listening then speaking. But if we theach the kids reading or even writing mean we teach unnaturally. Do not care whether your kids can not read or write the words or phrases they are going to learn. Do not write anythings and then ask them to read. You just focus on listening and speaking.
2. Use multisense methods in your teaching. The kids should watch, listen, touch even act in order to master the topic so that the learning process will be meaningful. The meaningful experience stays longer in our mind.
Teaching English for kids is not difficult if we know the way which we come into . In this case, we have to know the art how to teach them. The folowing description will open your mind how to treat them;
1. Take listening and speaking among the four language skills, especially for lower grades. The baby starts learing mother tongue language through listening then speaking. But if we theach the kids reading or even writing mean we teach unnaturally. Do not care whether your kids can not read or write the words or phrases they are going to learn. Do not write anythings and then ask them to read. You just focus on listening and speaking.
2. Use multisense methods in your teaching. The kids should watch, listen, touch even act in order to master the topic so that the learning process will be meaningful. The meaningful experience stays longer in our mind.
3. Grade your materials from the most simple to the complexed ones. to grade means we should not hurry to give all the materials, but step by step. Take an example when we want to teach number 1 to 10, give them 1 to 3 first. Make it sure they know how to say and to use the numerical symbols 1, 2 and 3 in their learning activities such as to say jumbled numbers and even to count. Avoid having numbers memorized.
4. Focus more on the way you diliver the material than the content of the material itself. Do not judge the topic only from the content. Kids often think differently from adults.Uninteresting topics for us would be interesting for the kids.
5. Use songs to enrich their vocabularies or patterns they are going to learn instead of memorising. Almost all kids like song. Many teachers give song as a reward because the students have done many exercises. Use song as one of your teaching activity form the opening to the end of meeting.
4. Focus more on the way you diliver the material than the content of the material itself. Do not judge the topic only from the content. Kids often think differently from adults.Uninteresting topics for us would be interesting for the kids.
5. Use songs to enrich their vocabularies or patterns they are going to learn instead of memorising. Almost all kids like song. Many teachers give song as a reward because the students have done many exercises. Use song as one of your teaching activity form the opening to the end of meeting.
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