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English @ IQ Abacus Click to register English program English Reading/Writing

Enhance your Children English Reading/Writing

IQ Abacus Math & Language School is now offering a new program, English Reading & Writing, for G1~6 students. Teacher will design weekly stories to be studied in depth through comprehension exercises, learning of new vocabulary, development of the spelling abilities, and writing assignments. Periodical writing lessons will focus especially on writing, such as writing a letter , knowing the different parts and types of books and writing a short story and writing a longer story and a poem.

The goal is to develop strong readers, writers, communicators, and thinkers based on these guiding principles. It is based on the philosophy that students learn best when there is a balance between listening, speaking, reading and writing. Lessons are taught using a variety of integrated, hands-on activities:

  • Teachers read aloud to children sharing excellent literature modeling literary language.
  • Students and teachers read together from big books, poems, songs or stories.
  • Teachers guide students who have similar reading behaviors during small group reading instruction building on the students strengths.
  • Teachers provide time for independent reading offering students the opportunity to select and enjoy literature that they can read on their own.
  • Teachers demonstrate and model thinking and writing skills in whole group settings.
  • Teachers and students share the pen as they create a piece of writing that becomes a collection of reading materials.
  • Teachers provide mini-lessons for writing, individual conferences for support, and opportunities for refection during writing workshop.
  • Students have the opportunity to write independently while writing in journals or in response to literature.
  • Teachers provide strategies for spelling and word study.
  • Students use technology to publish their literary works

Progress of the student performance will be closely monitored and recorded. Not for long, you should see improvements in your child's reading and writing skills.

Seats are limited! Sign up early to start a promising future for your child.

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Features

Our English Reading/Writing classes feature the followings:

  • Study weekly stories in depth through comprehension exercises

  • Learn new vocabulary, develop spelling and writing abilities.

  • Writing skills will be established/sharpened in periodical writing lessons

  • Progress of the student performance will be closely monitored and recorded

  • Not for long, you should see improvements in your child's reading and writing skills
Schedule

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Spalding Method in English Program

One-and-Half Hour Instructional Setting

The class is composed of Spelling, Writing/Grammar, and Reading sections.

Spelling (10 to 30 minutes depending on grade level)

After 45 phonograms have been introduced, K and 1st grade students begin the spelling dictation procedures to dictate the Extended Ayres (EA) Word List.

  • Oral Phonogram Review
  • Written Phonogram Review
  • Spelling Dictation and Rule Application
  • Assessment: Phonogram Assessment and Morrison-McCall Spelling Scale

Writing/Grammar (40 to 50 minutes depending on grade level)

  • Sentence Construction/Structure Analysis
    • compose oral/written simple sentences
    • compose compound sentences
    • compose complex sentences
    • identify parts of speech
  • Paragraph Construction
    • related sentences using content-area and EA words
    • informative/narrative paragraphs
    • informative paragraphs
    • narrative paragraphs
  • Composition
    • information/narratives
    • informatives (reports)
    • narratives
    • informal/formal communications
    • poetry
    • speeches/presentations
    • expository/persuasive essays with references and bibliography
    The students will use the writing process to …
    • summarize informative-narratives
    • summarize informatives
    • summarize narratives
  • Assessment: Teacher review and comments on in-class work or homework

Reading (20 to 30 minutes depending on grade level)

  • Literary Appreciation
    • identify the attributes of literature
    • identify the elements of narratives
    • reflect on author's use of the attributes of literature
    • reflect on author's use of the elements of narratives
    • read fluently and expressively
  • Text Structure
    • identify and label the elements of narrative paragraphs
    • identify and label the elements of an informative paragraph
    • identify and label the elements of an informative-narrative
    • distinguish between informative, narrative, and informative-narrative paragraphs
    • use the elements to predict author's purpose, type of writing, topic
    • vary reading rate and focus appropriate to text structure
  • Mental Actions
    • monitor comprehension while listening to paragraphs read
    • make connections with prior knowledge and text to infer and elaborate
    • make predictions of type of writing, topic, main idea, behaviors
    • reformat/categorize information
    • retell simple paragraphs
    • use underlining/note-taking to confirm a stated main idea
    • use note-taking to derive an implied main idea
    • use five mental actions to demonstrate comprehension
  • Listening & Speaking
    • Recite a poem from memory; read aloud a brief passage
    • Use techniques for effective oral presentations
    • Maintain purposeful discussion
  • Assessment: McCall-Harby and McCall-Crabbs "Standard Test Lessons in Reading"

Monitoring Student Achievement and Adjusting Instruction

The Spalding Method promotes optimal learning because it is a diagnostic teaching method. Assessment tests on students will be conducted at a certain point to measure student progress and performance. The assessment tests include the followings:

  • Initial placement test
  • Phonogram Assessment
  • Spelling Assessment using the Morrison-McCall Spelling Scale. The Scale provides Grade Status and the appropriate EA Section, and is used …
    • to identify the initial instructional level of individual students and the class
    • to evaluate periodic student progress
    • to gather information to refine instruction
  • Assessment on Reading and Comprehension Level using the McCall-Harby and McCall-Crabbs "Standard Test Lessons in Reading"
All the tests are carefully logged by the teachers to ensure appropriate progress made by the students.

Plus, a 24x7 e-Learning Enhancing Vocabulary, Word Usage, & Reading Comprehension

English @ IQ Abacus Click to register English program
  • Over 3000 words selected from literature, textbooks, and the SATs
  • New words with dictionary definitions, examples, pronunciations and pictures if applicable
  • Words with multiple meanings
  • Vocabulary development
  • Reading comprehension
  • Word usage
  • Synonyms and antonyms
  • Analogies
  • Writing skills
  • Test preparation
  • New word memorization engine for the newly learned words
  • Speedy review memorization engine for memorizing large amounts of words
  • Continuous difficult words for review until the student has mastered them