Introduction Chapter I. Teaching basic speaking skills in English to Young Learners

Teaching Reading

From the building blocks of reading to classroom strategies to creating inclusive classrooms — everything you need to know to help young and struggling readers succeed. Here you'll find proven ideas for the classroom, tips to share with parents, video of best practices, expert interviews, and the latest research — on print awareness, the sounds of speech, phonemic awareness, phonics, informal assessment, fluency, vocabulary, spelling, comprehension, and writing.
The reading strategies that teachers foster can often be broken into two fundamental categories: one approach is phonics, and the other is called whole language. As history has shown us, the education-politics pendulum often swings between these two philosophies that revolve around differing views of how children learn to read.
Teaching Writing is an ongoing process, which Time4Learning facilitates in a number of ways.
Most people agree that writing skills are increasingly important and often not adequately taught. When writing is taught in schools, writing instruction often takes a backseat to phonics, handwriting skills, and reading comprehension.
Many homeschool parents find that teaching writing may be more challenging than other subjects where there is an answer key. Children can challenge their parent’s feedback.
Effective writing is a vital life-skill that is important in almost every subject in school as well in the work world. Additionally, standardized tests increasingly contain a writing component – – in some cases this includes a requirement to write an essay on a timed test!
Writing Skills – What are they?
At first, many parents think that “learning to write” is primarily a question of grammar. They first think of teaching proper sentence construction, appropriate use of tenses, and punctuation. It is true that grammar is an important component of teaching writing. The Time4Learning system includes a superb set of lessons for teaching punctuation, vocabulary, word choice, spelling, paragraph structure and other components of “correct writing”. Try these demos.