WordSift - Wordcloud, passende Bilder, Worterklärung. VocabGrabber - Wordcloud, Häufigkeit, Worterklärung. Teaching Symbolism: How to Get More out of Literature. Written by: Trent Lorcher • edited by: SForsyth • updated: 11/6/2012 Moby Dick is about a whale hunt gone bad. The Old Man and the Sea is about a fishing trip gone bad. The Great Gatsby is about a weekend party gone bad. The American flag is a red, white, and blue piece of cloth. Teaching symbolism will eliminate stupid answers like these. We read Of Mice and Men as a class. How young children learn English as another language. By Opal Dunn, educational consultant and author Young children are natural language acquirers; they are self-motivated to pick up language without conscious learning, unlike adolescents and adults. They have the ability to imitate pronunciation and work out the rules for themselves. Any idea that learning to talk in English is difficult does not occur to them unless it’s suggested by adults, who themselves probably learned English academically at a later age through grammar-based text books.
Read the notes below about young children learning English as another language. You can also download these notes as a booklet. Right-click on the link below to download the booklet to your computer. Young children are still using their individual, innate language-learning strategies to acquire their home language and soon find they can also use these strategies to pick up English. Spoken language comes naturally before reading and writing. Children need to feel that they are making progress. Reading Tip Sheets for Parents. Reading Strategies. Reading. What To Read. Are you overwhelmed by the reading materials that are available? Without spending a penny, you can read printed texts (books, magazines, newspapers at the library), online materials (websites and blogs), and ebooks (on your mobile devices). Think about what you like to read in your native language.
Can you find these written materials in English? There are two important things in deciding what to read: It should interest you, so that the reading is fun and not boring. Here are some types of reading material to try: books (including children's books and graded readers)newspapersonline news articles (try EC's easy news)online blogs about topics that interest you (search for "top 10 blog" lists by topic)letters (personal and commercial)transcripts (of some online videos) and sub-titles on filmsshort stories (try these on EC)poetryproverbscartoons and jokesrecipes for cookingadvertisements and brochures.