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I took a course during the pandemic last year and I couldn't be more grateful for the exposure to certain aspects of literacy methodology I was exposed to. I was also required to write a teaching philosophy. It talks about who I am as a teacher and the techniques that I employ when teaching my learners. Get ready to meet me. "TEACHING PURPOSE I had my first teaching experience during the one year mandatory youth service. I was ill-equipped since education wasn't my field of study. I spent the first few months trying to acquaint myself with my roles and duties while also delivering lessons using the guide I was given. It was challenging since I was taking over 100 students but, before the end of my youth service, I'd fallen in love with teaching. I teach because I have found it to be one of the most challenging, and at the same time, most fulfilling career paths. The ability to mould and shape; to groom and nurture; and help learners reach their full potenti...

Your child has familiarised herself with your voice since she was in the womb. She also comes equipped with the capacity to learn language. Reading is one of the first skills that a child should be equipped with. A great way to start teaching reading is from birth. Read to your child while she's in her crib and let her hold books as soon as she can. A torn book is a small price to pay for literacy. Read picture books and point at pictures in the book while you do so. Switch to books with texts and read aloud while your child sits on your lap, following with her eyes.  If you've been doing read-aloud sessions with your child since she could stare at a page, you can start teaching reading by age four otherwise, you can start teaching reading by age five. Most second and third children may be ready to read sooner because they've watched older siblings read. If a younger child shows interest in reading, you should oblige her. Children generally don't develop wri...

Reading is a receptive skill. learners of English as a second language need to be taught the skills of English language reading. They also need a variety of texts to improve reading competence and general language improvement. The following tips should help you as an educator effectively select texts and encourage good reading habits in your learners. Give Extra Readings . Supplementing readings in the textbooks provides an opportunity to bring new ideas into the lesson. this also gives learners exposure to a wide variety of texts connected to the topic. Give readers a reason to read Reading tasks which learners recognize as relevant to their studies are motivating. An appropriate task encourage s suitable reading strategies in learners. Use Questions Apart from the well known comprehension questions, try to go beyond and involve learners in the ideas bring the text: For example, you could ask them to state the author's purpose or tone. Encourage reading for pleasure. O...

A syllable can be defined simply as a unit that is larger than a phoneme but smaller than a word. It is an uninterrupted unit of sound which is formed by the opening and closing of the mouth. One of the easiest ways to learn to count syllables is to hum the word. For example: stable would be hm-hm, whereas mechanic is hm-hm-hm. A syllable consists of a syllable onset and a rhyme . The rhyme is made up of a nucleus (obligatory) and a coda (optional). A syllable consists of an obligatory vowel potentially surrounded by consonants. We can therefore define a vowel as a speech sound which functions as a syllable nucleus while a consonant is a speech sound which typically occurs at the margins of a syllable. It is important to note that what is referred to here are sounds and not letters of spelling. English syllables can consist of up to three consonants in initial position (as in str and) and as many as four in final position (as in gli mpsed ). A syllable which ends in one ...