I have been teaching a few kids for a little less than a year now.
When I started, they were plainly on the wrong textbook – despite not yet knowing all their phonics for single letters, but they were on a textbook dealing with mainly blends.
I carried on with the textbook and a sequel of sorts because I figured despite being a suboptimal approach they’d surely figure it out. I should say we’re an Eikaiwa and it is only the first half of the lesson that is for literacy – once I get through the textbook lessons and a game covering the content, there’s not really much time at all before I have to move on to the conversation component.
The approach hasn’t yielded the results I wanted at all.
They’re about 6 to 7.
They were so far along into the blends textbook when I arrived that it would have been a bit of a loss of face to go to some ABC INTRO let alone now.
What can I do to get them out of this rut? Any textbooks or workbooks you would recommend?
by jamestheobscure