Reading Aloud Using Phonics

My form three pupil, who has been learning English since kindergarten, cannot read aloud properly; yet, this skill, along with his general spoken pronunciation, have been improving in the thirteen weeks since we began a phonics-approach to reading (like most Hong Kong people, he has learned to read English using the disastrous whole-language approach). Right now, thankfully, regular decodable words do not present too much of a challenge to him; it is the long-O challenge words, however, which will take awhile for him to master.

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Education

Tags:

• illiteracy
• phonics
• reading
• speaking
• pronunciation
• esl
• english
• language
• student
• learning
• teaching
• hong kong
• hk
• china
• chinese