Speaking Skills
Explain to your child, that every object in the home and
in the street has a name. In pointing to objects, in your spare moments,
you can ask your child to identify or name them. This can be done before
or besides lessons on reading and writing. (This is done accidentally
while your child is hearing the conversation in your house.)
Identification should a game with rewards (a treat, a smile or the word
good perhaps, but no penalties).
Once a week, it could be an ongoing game or task to
introduce say three or several new words to your child. In this game, you
say a word. If your child can say what the word means, you provide a
small reward, and if not, you explain it. Playing this game may require a
dictionary as an aid, if the game lasts a long-time. Feel free to
introduce unexpected words, ones not in use locally or in the present
time, or ones for which are several possible meanings. (You may also
explain how the meaning of words changes. To be brave today has a noble
meaning, but in previous centuries, to be called brave was to be called a
fool. Meanings do change.) Note in some school districts, an elementary
school teacher who with good intentions introduces new vocabulary weeks
or a year before it is scheduled to be introduced may be cautioned or
fired. This word game might fill a gap in your child's education.
Speaking and listening skills can also be developed by
reading or telling your child or children, a short story, and then asking
him or her to summarized it. Around a table with many children, you may
ask one or more to summarize or repeat the main points of a story just
told or read. Later summaries may improve or corrupt the story. The
changes in detail may be most interesting or amusing -- politeness
required. The youngest children present may be asked first, or given a
chance to improve their stories by giving their summaries after an older
individual. After all the summaries, the short story can be read in full,
once more yourself or one of the older children. Have fun. Once children
have learnt to read and write, this speaking activity should be retained
as a family gathering, but variations may be tried. Listeners can write
their summaries or notes down before reading them aloud. But the game
lies in the presentation of the summaries. Beyond this, game children or
those present can be asked to create stories, or repeat others from
memory.
The communication of ideas is based on story telling. The
story can be fiction, nonfiction or, in a stretch, it can describe how to
do this or that. A repertoire of stories, those of others in the first
place, provide examples for the development of further stories. Stories
provide a second hand experience of this or that real or imagined
situation.
Speaking and listening skills may also be improved by
asking your children around the dinner table, after supper or before:
what happened in school today, what was unusual, what new ideas and words
were met and understood, what words or ideas were met and not
understood. This questions can be applied to English courses, history
courses, science courses and mathematics courses etc. This habit of
reporting what has pasted the day should be cultivated or introduced
slowly, not suddenly. Each child should be given a chance to speak, and
should be listened to, politely.
Again, reporting and summarizing what was met or learnt
in school could be and should be introduced and cultivated slowly as a
pleasant duty. Negative reactions might require your backing off. With
luck, older children may lead the discussion and allow parents to depart.
Children or teens from neighboring families could also come together in
study groups. Your home could be a one room, supplementary school house.
Good luck. (The demands of modern life and TV watching may be a
distraction, and meeting once a week instead of everyday may well be
necessary.
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Work Booklets for ages 3+ to 13 Use these or others to check
or build skills. Other booklets are available but these booklets
allow parents unsure of themselves in mathematics to help their
children. The selection acquired in Canada is published in the
USA. So it has a US orientation. In retrospect, the selection
shows parents what to check with the booklets or by other ways,
the choice is theirs. But in retrospect, the selection does not
cover integral and fractions liquid weights and measures - ask
the publishers to correct that! For ages 9 to 12 say, parents may
compensate by showing boys and girls how to use weights or mass,
and further measures in food preparation. Beyond that children
may be shown how to measure and calculate angles, lengths and
areas [proportional amounts too] directly or by using maps and
plans drawns to scale. Learning how to gather and measure all the
ingredients, pots and pans for a dish or a meal, along with
cleaning up sets the stage for like activities or experiments in
science courses, and in developing organizational skills,
gives boys and girls a head start. Good luck. At the other
extreme, more comprehensive than light, if your motto is
McCainian: drill, drill, drill then Toronto
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workbooks for at least grades 3 to 8 for at-home and in-school
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Basic skills include
time-date-calendar Matters; money matters; map, plan and
scale diagram matters;counting, measuring and figuring;
decision making with logic and likelyhood; being careful and
being aware of the domino effect of mistakes; reading and
writing with precision.
Is your child able to add, subtract and multiply amounts
of money, work with fractions, work with clocks and calendars,
work with maps and plans, and measure length, weight-mass and
volume? Schools may promote your son or daughter without
providing basic skills in reading, writing and
arithmetic.
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They cover basic topics in ways likely to complement your
notes, your textbooks and site material. When Goldilocks
trespassed in the house of the three bears, she found three bowls
of porridge, two not to her liking, and one just right. Different
bears have different tastes. As invited guest here and elsewhere,
if one or more explanations is not to liking, try another. It may
be better or just right.
Unsolicited Advice
Learning to do and high marks if it comes to easy is often
deceptive - light rather than deep. For that reason, students
with learning difficulties determined not to let it get in their
way may go deeper and farther than those with none. High marks,
if the come easy, may be deceptive - provide a too light and not
a deep mastery. That could have been your problem in secondary
school, one that leads to comprehension shock or difficulties in
calculus and more generally in the first year of college. Bon
Appetite.
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