Opal Dunn - Collins Introducing English to Young Children - Reading and Writing

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© Opal Dunn 2014

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Copyright Collins HarperCollins Publishers 77-85 Fulham Palace Road Hammersmith London W6 8JB © Opal Dunn 2014 The right of Opal Dunn to be identified as the Author of this Work has been asserted by her in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. eBook ISBN 978-0-00-755686-1 Source ISBN 978-0-00-752254-5 Version: 2014-07-14 Collins ® is a registered trademark of HarperCollins Publishers Limited www.collinselt.com A catalogue record of this book is available from the British Library. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior permission in writing of the Publisher. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, downloaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins. This book is sold subject to the conditions that it shall not, by way of trade or otherwise, be lent, re-sold, hired out or otherwise circulated without the Publisher’s prior consent in any form of binding or cover other than that in which it is published and without a similar condition including this condition being imposed on the subsequent purchaser. HarperCollins does not warrant that www.collinselt.com or any other website mentioned in this title will be provided uninterrupted, that any website will be error free, that defects will be corrected, or that the website or the server that makes it available are free of viruses or bugs. For full terms and conditions please refer to the site terms provided on the website. Cover images © Monkey Business Images/Shutterstock; damircudi/iStockphoto If any copyright holders have been omitted, please contact the Publisher who will make the necessary arrangements at the first opportunity.

Title Page

About the author About the author Award-winning author Opal Dunn has many years of experience in teaching children aged up to 8 years, and has trained teachers all over the world. She has also authored picture books for nursery and young primary children, organised Bunko (mini-libraries) for bilingual, multilingual and double children (children growing up with two languages and two cultures) and has written information books and articles for parents. Opal is the co-founder of IATEFL YLT SIG (Young Learners & Teenagers Special Interest Group of the International Association of Teachers of English as a Foreign Language).

About this book

List of figures

1 Acquiring language – The Playful Approach

1.1 Absorbing another language

1.2 Transitions

1.3 Play as a form of learning

1.4 The Playful Approach

1.5 Free-choice time

2 Tuned-in teaching

2.1 Acquiring English

2.2 Tuning in

2.3 The child’s expectations of the teacher

2.4 Enabling learning

2.5 Motivation and emotional literacy

2.6 Monitoring and assessing

2.7 Teacher input

3 Listening to the maturing child

3.1 Self-educators

3.2 Motivation

3.3 Evaluating success

3.4 Autonomy

4 Cooperating with parents

4.1 Tuning in

4.2 Parents’ involvement

4.3 Teaching for a test

4.4 Bringing English into the home

4.5 Assessments for parents

5 Planning, managing and assessing

5.1 Planning lessons

5.2 Managing the autonomous learner

5.3 Self-assessment

6 Extending spoken ability

6.1 Developing autonomy in the classroom

6.2 English input

6.3 Extending vocabulary

7 Introducing reading English

7.1 Reading as a skill

7.2 A multi-strategy English reading scheme

7.3 Finding out about words

7.4 Teacher’s role

8 Introducing handwriting

8.1 The role of handwriting

8.2 Beginning handwriting

8.3 Initial assessment

8.4 Stimulating children to handwrite

8.5 Style

8.6 Materials

8.7 Handwriting size

8.8 Handwriting programme

8.9 Beginning handwriting for L1 non-handwriters

9 Learning to spell

9.1 Spelling (encoding)

9.2 Introducing spelling

9.3 Assessing spelling

9.4 Introducing syllables

9.5 Recognising patterns of ‘onset and rime’

9.6 Developing analogy strategies

9.7 Learning new spellings

9.8 Involving parents

9.9 Fun facts

9.10 Introducing first grammar concepts

9.11 Word origins

10 Projects and activities

10.1 Why projects and activities?

10.2 Selecting projects and activities

10.3 Parents’ involvement

10.4 Suggested projects or activities