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  • 1.  How to help children speak good english.

    Posted 04-05-2020 07:29 AM
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    Hello I need help! I want to teach children around me how to speak and write good English.
    Can anybody help me with materials? 
    Thank you very much. 



  • 2.  RE: How to help children speak good english.

    Posted 04-06-2020 09:08 AM
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    I think the best way to help children speak and write effective English is to have it spoken around them and focus on reading. I think English is being diminished by so many people not reading books. I keep learning effective grammar in adulthood by reading books.

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    Jack Wright
    Child Development Consultant
    Success With Children
    St Ignatius MT
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  • 3.  RE: How to help children speak good english.

    Posted 04-07-2020 10:03 AM
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    I agree. Children learn spoken English from those around them, through conversation, etc. As for writing well, reading has a tremendous impact. Children who are read to a lot, hear the language and how it is used. They become aware of the grammar and vocabulary. The vocabulary in stories and non-fiction books often included new words that a child may not have heard, thus expanding the child's understanding of words.

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    Nora Krieger, PhD
    Associate Professor Emerita/Past Chair NJEEPRE
    Bloomfield College/NJ Educators Exploring the Practices of Reggio Emilia
    Highland Park, NJ
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  • 4.  RE: How to help children speak good english.

    Posted 04-06-2020 04:16 PM
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    Hi,
    I taught early years ESL for many years and can't overemphasize the power of read alouds to promote English development.  I had a workshop with Dr. Stephen Krashen, who stresses the importance of reading for second language acquisition students.  It's great for native English speakers too because that is really the only way to learn formal language.  Written language is more formal than spoken and contains more sophisticated vocabulary that is important to academic success.

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    Danielle Julian
    Library Technician
    City of Carlsbad
    Carlsbad, California
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  • 5.  RE: How to help children speak good english.

    Posted 04-06-2020 05:34 PM
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    I work with many non-English preschool age children.
    I use flannel board stories. Flannel board stories help them guess the meaning of the words. They are fun and engaging for children who do not understand what you are saying. Almost any story can be made into a flannel story. 

    I sing, I sing everything. If they drop their fork on the floor I have a song for that. If I want them to follow me, I have a song for that. I use songs to help them learn about their body parts.

    We use words to describe their actions as they do them. For example: Child is attempting to paint. When they pick up the brush we say oh you picked up the paint brush, your painting with red on the paper, the red is getting larger, you're spreading it all over the paper. They're playing in the sandbox we say, oh you picked up the bucket, that's a bucket. you put sand in the bucket, that is sand and a point to the sand or pick it up. 

    We ask the parents to teach us some simple words like: good morning, play, sit down, good, yes, no, bathroom, wait. I ask them to teach me a popular children's song. 

    We see a significant increase in English when we use these methods. 



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    Teri Ismail
    Assistant Director
    Ms.
    Acton CA
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  • 7.  RE: How to help children speak good english.

    Posted 04-07-2020 10:29 AM
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    Hello Everyone,
    I wanted to share a comment about "Speaking English Well" teaching young children in how to speak well in any language is vital for their Expressive and Receptive Language Skills. Reading to children everyday more than once throughout their daily activities in class is vital for many developmental domains. Especially when it comes to expressing themselves within a group setting. Modeling the way teachers speak, read, and interact with their young students in vital in their learning. Children are active learners using their olfactory senses in how one speaks is how they expand those major skills. Reading 📖 is one of many important elements in how children react in how teachers reading out loud to them. I am bilingual reading in Spanish as well as in English bringing the same value to reading improving the language of the spoken word.

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    Milagros Neu
    Pre-K Teacher
    World Of ABC Preschool
    Maplewood NJ
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  • 8.  RE: How to help children speak good english.

    Posted 04-08-2020 11:48 AM
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    I agree with Teri Ismail's suggestion and many others. When I co-taught the twos in a classroom whose students spoke Amharic, Chinese (Cantonese and Mandarin), Vietnamese, and Spanish, we sang and read books one-to-one, and small and large groups. We sang the alphabet song during Circle or Transition Time and walking to the park. They learned sign language for simple tasks as well as for the alphabet. We counted in English and the home languages during Circle Time. We also heard popular books in audiotape formats during rainy days and watched the stories on DVDs (borrowed from the library) or streamed them from YouTube when the copyright laws were not regulated. The children loved watching the stories come alive on the screen (Chicka Chicka Boom Boom and The Wheels On the Bus). I also filmed the children from my phone and projected the clips onto the white wall in the classroom for them to see as they helped each other with a task or participating in class ( i had permission from Parents through Teaching Strategies Gold). At the end of the year, I started to do story dictations with them. I brought my iPad, and they learned the alphabet by using great apps called Injini and My Name and learned to recognize and write the letters that corresponded to their names with photos. By the time I introduced the iPad apps, the students were almost three years old and could share better. I only had one iPad, but they patiently waited for each person to write their names once during center time. Some families had an iPad at home, and I recommended the apps we used in class. So, some children had opportunities to engage with the apps at home and didn't feel they needed them at school. The students often drew pictures, and I asked them what they drew. I wrote it down, and one girl started to write using inventive spelling for her drawings, which we displayed on the wall.

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    Ling Lee
    Evanston IL
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