Teaching Assistant Strategies

Children try to learn sounds and to read words. So it will help to find words and they will begin to improve their language. To conclude, in my report I would like to say that big book is very effective tool for children in the classroom. It provides an essential link between learning and play which makes them wonderful teaching tool of children in the classroom. Creating big book is a wonderful way to help the children learns to work as part of a group.

The point of this article is basically being there for them, teach them how to be independence, have someone to be in their life that we care about them. When the kids have trouble of reading, spelling, studying, we tutorial them and give them practice skills to work on their weakness to work on. We teach them how to control their emotions. When you have a friendly relationship is to always let them know that you care about them and show them develop trust to them, have that special bond with them. It is important to teach students about the classroom rules, schools rules, daily routines, learn to practice new skills in the classroom and out of the classroom, and now their school schedule and outside of school schedule.

Various strategies can be used in the classroom to work on student’s oral language development. Tompkins, Campbell and Green (2012, p. 8) highlights that teachers who understand language as a social purpose tend to plan instructional activities with social components. Thus, within a classroom, teachers can implement play-based learning to encourage and promote oral language. Utilising shared, guided and modelled reading can further assist in developing oral language. These strategies can include additional elements of a balanced approach.

So, one of the most effective methods for teaching young kids about diversity is through books. By reading multicultural books with multicultural characters help children learn and love. Many books include plays between the characters, teachers can use these advantages to help children be these multicultural characters and interact as they were in it. Games, and such physical exercises also help children improve not only their literacy skills but also familiarize them with other cultures. Communication is a very important part between children and teacher during the lesson.

First one is that activities should be appropriate children`s age level. Second one is that instruction should be purposeful and third one is that activities and materials should be integrated with other components of a balanced literacy programs. A teacher can teach identifying words, categorizing words, substituting sounds, blending sounds, and segmenting sounds by doing age appropriate activities with children. Teachers assess children by using screening test to determine the level of their knowledge about phonemic awareness and they use instruction assessment cycle are planning, monitoring, evaluation, and reflection. Phonemic awareness is important to learn how to read and it is prerequisite.

Mind’s Eye strategy could be one of their best ways to solve this problem. This strategy can develop students visualization and improve students reading comprehension as the technique includes students memory and asking them to be more critical in giving their perception and prediction. According to Silver, Strong and Perini (2007) mind’s eye is a reading strategy that is used by the teacher to improve students critical skill of the words on the page into memorable images. When the students read about a text the students will combine their background knowledge with the information that is gotten in the text. In addition, Sejnost (2009) states that this strategy is started by the students who listen to the keywords which are mentioned by the teacher and then attempt to visualize what are they hearing by making pictures in their minds.

Nowadays, there are a number of different types of assessments used in the classroom. Students are quizzed, pre-tested and tested and they are required to write essays, fill in the blanks and answer multiple-choice questions. These assessments are given by teachers as a method of determining whether or not the student has gained mastery over the content that is being taught. Individuals who teach reading operate in the same way. Given that one of the primary goals for teaching students to read is for them to comprehend the materials they read, teachers must devise a method of assessing whether students, in fact, understand what they read.

Understanding How to Help Your Child Read Why is it important for my child to read? The ability to read is vital. It paves the way to success in school, which can build self-confidence and motivate your child to set high expectations for life. People read for many reasons: for pleasure and interest for work to obtain information that will help them make choices and decisions to understand directions (such as those on street signs and in recipe books)to learn about the world to keep in touch with family and friends How will my child learn to read? Learning to read does not happen all at once.

What are the causes of the incorrect pronunciation when reading English words? 2. What are the appropriate strategies that need to be employed to improve learners’ pronunciation in English? 1.4 Significance of the study The information from this study would serve as the basis of sensitizing the teachers about the importance of correct pronunciation and create awareness about the use of effective pronunciation methods. The beneficiaries of this study are; Ministry of Education, teachers teaching English Second Language and learners.

1. How do children acquire reading vocabulary? What are the levels of knowing a word? There are many different ways to acquire reading vocabulary for children: - Reading to children (reading aloud books and other materials that have some new words) - Getting children reading (engage children in activities to encourage independent reading: children are learning new vocabulary words through independent reading) - Engaging children in rich oral language (children are learning new words through talk, specially when they are listening and participating in high-level conversation) - Encouraging reading at home (sending books and interactive activities at home) - Raising words awareness (teachers have to draw children attention and interest to words around them by playing with words using the games or songs) - Teaching important words (teachers have to choose new words to teach