Most parents of preschoolers will start to worry about a common issue:

When the time comes, how will my child be prepared to enter a prestigious primary school? 

There are several steps you can take to give your child’s reading and writing skills a boost, including the use of effective strategies at home to improve reading comprehension skills and/or to enrol him or her in an English Enrichment Class – in which case, it is essential to determine which class is the best fit for your child.

How do you determine and justify the effectiveness of an English Enrichment Class in preparing your child for primary school?

Reading skills 

- Read, comprehend and respond to different types of age-appropriate literary texts (i.e. children’s literature,            rhymes/poems and narratives)

-  Develop beginners’ skills in word identification such as decoding and phonics

-  Recognise the sounds of vowels, consonant clusters, vowel combinations, etc.

-  Build vocabulary through reading various types of texts and learn to retain definitions to use words in different situations

-  Convey a message or a sentence in a persuasive manner

-  Develop comprehension skills including identifying the main idea, identifying the details, making inferences, listening selectively as well as making predictions

Criteria for English enrichment class that builds Primary 1 reading skills:

Research has shown that phonics is just one part of the expected reading abilities. Therefore, do opt for an integrated reading enrichment class over a phonics class.

There are 8 essential skills for reading:

1. Engagement

2. Active Understanding

3. Narrative Intelligence & Higher Order Thinking Skills

4. Phonemic Awareness

5. Phonics

6. Fluency

7. Vocabulary-building

8. Structural Awareness

Developing the these 8 essential skills will prepare your child well to further enhance their English level.

Speaking and Communication skills in Primary 1

- Understand that listening is not a passive receptive task but rather one that requires engagement, feedback and/or participation

- Develop active listening skills

- Learn how to speak and represent ideas effectively in various situations and settings (e.g., one-on-one conversation, group interaction, poem recitation or a simple classroom presentation)

- Participate in conversations, narrate, explain, provide instructions, and recount and report information

- Recognise and utilise the various voice qualities in spoken communication (i.e., volume, pace, word stress and sentence stress)

- Listen and comprehend a variety of spoken and audio texts including DVDs, CDs, radio broadcasts, podcasts, and live presentations or performances

An enrichment class for students should cater to them and their interests, which fundamentally starts with having fun. Opt for an English enrichment class that draws from dynamic activities to cultivate active listening, verbal self-expression and communication techniques.

If you would like to enroll to our private or group English Enrichment Classes, please call us at 3182 6925 or leave a message on WhatsApp at 5486 4753 to find out more information.