The I CAN READ – Discover focuses on younger children just starting out on their learning journeys. Classes range from 1 – 1.5 hours, and are held twice per week.
We have 3 levels for this programme. These levels are aimed at children from the age of 3 years, and are designed to guide our youngest students towards early acquisition of English literacy.
LEVELS OF THE PROGRAMME
DISCOVER 1:
This course is designed to guide our youngest students towards the early acquisition of essential English language and literacy skills. The learning outcomes are intended to be both academic and social. Each lesson is designed to be highly interactive between the students and the teachers.
Lesson focus:
• Developing Listening Skills – through story time, conversations and other classroom activities.
• Understanding the Concept of Sounds – through songs, nursery, rhymes and phonological activities.
• Improving Vocabulary – with theme-based classroom activities.
• Learning to Speak Confidently – guided by target language, conversations, dramatic play and talk time.
• Developing Social Skills – with classroom interactions.
• Developing Fine-motor-skills – with pencil-grip activities.
DISCOVER 2:
This course focuses on the development of oral communication skills. Students quickly develop their speaking ability by learning a wide range of vocabulary and sentence structures in a natural context. In this course, students develop the awareness that each spoken word is a combination of smaller sounds. We call this ’emerging phonemic awareness’.
Lesson focus:
• Enhancing Listening Skills – through story time, conversations and other classroom activities.
• Identifying first and last sound in words – through engaging phonemic activities.
• Identifying the difference between words and syllables – through phonemic activities.
• Expanding Vocabulary – with engaging, theme-based classroom activities.
• Improving Confidence in Public Speaking – guided by target language, conversations, dramatic play and talk time.
• Enhancing Social Skills – with classroom interactions.
• Enhancing Fine-motor-skills – with tracing and drawing activities.
DISCOVER 3:
This is a foundation course for the I CAN READ Reading course. Students are totally immersed in the English language and interact with the teacher in a series of fun activities. These activities are designed to teach important phonological skills that are essential to becoming an independent reader.
Lesson focus:
• Enhancing Listening Skills – through story time, conversations and other classroom activities.
• Identifying first, last and middle sound in words – through engaging phonemic activities.
• Identifying the difference between words and syllables – through phonological activities.
• Learning Oral Blending – 2, 3 and 4 sounds.
• Learning Oral Segmenting – 2, 3 and 4-sound words.
• Learning Phonics – by identifying the most common letter-sounds.
• Expanding Vocabulary – with engaging, theme-based classroom activities.
• Learning to Speak in Complete Sentences – guided by target language, conversations, dramatic play and public speaking.
• Developing Writing Skills – with specialized activities.
