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Sometimes children are just not that into writing, and it shows in their school work.
For most of our children, except for homework assignments, writing is not a big part of their everyday life at home.
What can parents do to help their child develop good writing skills and habits?
We share some of the ways that can help your child to excel in writing.
<h3>1) Focus on Writing Early</h3>
Educational technology advances show that reading and writing development are intertwined in early learning.
The physical act of writing letters and early words enhances the child&#8217;s ability to read. The complementary relationship between reading and writing continues long after these early efforts.
You can enhance your child&#8217;s skills dramatically by conducting meaningful learning activities at home:
(a) Write every day Encourage your child to keep a journal. This is an excellent writing practice as well as a good outlet for expressing feelings. Content of the journal can vary, but are not limited to things that happen at home/school, about people he/she likes/dislikes and why, stories that he might like to share with friends to name just a few.
Most importantly, you share their journal, read the entries and discuss them together. It is a great bonding time too!
 (b) Ask your child to tell you simple stories as you write them down You note the story down as your child dictates, without making changes. Ask your child to read and clarify what you have written.
(c) Turn your child’s writing into books Paste your child’s drawings and writings on pieces of construction paper. For each book, make a cover page with special art, a title, and his/her name as the author. Have a storytelling session at the next family gathering and let your child read his/her story aloud to the family.
(d) Suggest note-taking Increase opportunities to write at home! For example, encourage your child to write their own shopping list, phone messages, family trips suggestions etc.
The positive experiences of writing in the early years forms the foundation of children’s interest and joy in expressing themselves through the written words.
By the time they reach Primary One, they should have already built up the skills essential for writing.
How do you know if they are ready?
Here’s our <a href="http://www.elloquence.edu.sg/readinessforp1checklist-2/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Primary One Readiness Checklist</a> to find out if your Kindergartener’s English proficiency level is ready for entry into Primary One.
<h3 style="text-align: center;">“ELLoquence Primary 1 Preparatory Programme focuses on developing Reading Readiness and Writing Skills in 5 &amp; 6 years old children.”</h3>
In our Primary 1 Preparatory Programme, we help your child discover and dive into a rich language environment where words are made alive through sensorial experiences, emotional engagement and real life application.
The programme aims to equip the Kindergarten children with
(a) phonetic reading and writing skills (b) elementary critical questioning skills to comprehend texts (c) elementary story writing skills to organize and express their ideas.
Every child will require these skills to have a good headstart in Primary One.
<a href="http://www.elloquence.edu.sg/readinessforp1checklist-2/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Download the Primary One Readiness Checklist to find out if your Kindergartener’s English proficiency level is ready for entry into Primary One!</a>
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<h3>2) Focus Writing Challenges Unique To Your Child</h3>
Every child is unique in strength and learning style.
Learn not to blindly follow the trend of popular tuition centres without truly understanding what your child really needs.
Trends are for the masses but your child is UNIQUE – in strength and in learning style.
Buck the mainstream tuition centres and give your child what he/she truly needs.
While you may be anxious to search for additional help to increase your child’s academic success, more so important for you to seek clarity on “what is prohibiting your child from writing better”?
You will be surprised that many a times these challenges are different from child to child, and cannot be resolved by merely increasing reading or writing practices.
Unless you identify specific strategies to help your child “unlearn and relearn right habits”, excessive repetition may lead to negative reinforcement of “wrong learning habits” only!
Examples of effective strategies for overcoming specific writing challenges:
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<h3 style="text-align: center;">“ELLoquence’s programmes treat every child’s learning journey as a customized developmental plan, to prepare your child for academic success by expanding their knowledge and skills as well as resolving their learning gaps.”</h3>
ELLoquence’s curriculum and methodologies are carefully developed and constantly reviewed by the language specialists of Thesys International (The learning service branch of Fairmont Education Group).
With over 60 years of experience in the United States and many school partners around the world, our students are able to enter top colleges with their high English proficiency gained through the ELLoquence program. They learn not based on route learning but effective teaching and learning strategies.
<a href="http://www.elloquence.edu.sg/programmes/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Find out more about our programmes here.</a>
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<h3>3) Focus on the Building Blocks of Good Writing</h3>
A rich language environment is a foundation for good writing.
Other than news articles from newspaper, you can help to build your child’s range of words using concrete and real-life contexts.
Encourage your child:
(i) keep a vocabulary notebook close by to pen down words learned during family chat or discussion;
(ii) learn from online word games and makes sentences using the new words.
Nonetheless, this incidental way of learning vocabulary may be challenging for children to retain words and apply such new words in sentence making. Learning will be much conducive and effective if there is a systematic approach to scaffold writing skills so that your child will know how to write with depth.
<h3 style="text-align: center;">“ELLoquence uses 80 real-life themes as the basis to learn vocabulary and grammar systematically, and to engage students in critical thinking for discussion of real world issues.”</h3>
In addition, we use information technology as a tool to engage your child in sensorial learning while a teacher imparts knowledge through meaningful classroom discussion and personal coaching for every child.
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Through such a rich contextual approach, your child can pick up grammar, vocabulary and language skills much better than learning via boring textbook drills.
<h3>4) Focus On The Writer, Not The Task</h3>
The majority of writing curriculum emphasizes on teaching writing formats and the structure of writing. They do not help your child access the words within.
More commonly, these programmes create assignments that will reproduce the structure of the model or the form, and then expect your child to produce writing that matches that set of expectations without necessarily taking into account what your child’s unique individual needs.
Your child may receive excessive practices on meeting the expectation of the rubric, but he/she may remain incapable of expressing his/her voice.
In the end, your child may still lack the fluency and vocabulary in expressing what he/she wants to say, and how he/she wants to say it.
<h3 style="text-align: center;">“With consistent practice, ELLoquence can help your children to take advantage of their cultivated writing voice, their evolving rhetorical thinking, as well as their language arts powers.”</h3>
The core difference between ELLoquence and other programmes is that we teach writing much the way professional writers teach writing.
Professional writing instruction usually starts with a person—what do you have to say?
We focus on inculcating good writing habits including skills of revising and editing their work with confidence.
ELLoquence also promotes both substance (insight, thought processes, developed vocabulary, mastery of material) and style (enabling students to discover the variety of writing voices they have inside to meet the demands of any writing assignment).
<h3>5) Focus On Building Thinking, Not Imitating It</h3>
Good writing is not about imitating others’ work, it is about voicing out your personal ideas and making connections with the world and the people around you.
Hence, it is essential to provide opportunities for your child to practice such thinking processes and express their thinking outcomes via speaking or writing.
Simple exercises you can do with your child include asking the what, where, when, why, how questions. An activity as basic as this can have a profound impact on your child as you are helping your child build crucial synapses in his brain – the more the synapses the more nimble and versatile your child’s brain becomes setting him on the path to academic excellence.
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<h3 style="text-align: center;">“The ELLoquence curriculum has been designed and tailored for Singapore-based students and are aligned to the Ministry of Education (MOE)’s syllabus.”</h3>
At ELLoquence, we invite our students to be:
<ul>
<li>CLEAR We challenge them to be clear by asking for explanations and examples.</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>ACCURATE We encourage them to highlight related key facts using different colours to form connections within a text.</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>RELEVANT We invite them to raise questions or topics that are pertinent to the discussion. </li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>LOGICAL We think through the details of the topic from different angles, and encourage our students to make logical connections and challenge assumptions.</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>FAIR By making sure they consider other people’s perspectives when drawing conclusions, we weave in the life-long skill of empathy into their thinking processes. </li>
</ul>
Through consistent practices, your child will be capable of presenting facts and narrating emotions in their writing through the correct choice of words and sequence of events.
By applying critical thinking, they can also learn to make inferences from the texts and explore alternatives and recognize assumptions. These skills are very useful to your child who needs to tackle higher-order thinking questions in Paper 2 of the MOE examinations.
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Conclusion
ELLoquence is confident in helping your child improves his/her language proficiency within a short period of time.
If you like your child to learn how to write better and impress their teachers, enrol your child with ELLoquence today!
If you are still unsure whether this works for you, we are offering 2 free trial lessons ONLY to readers of KiasuParents!
Take advantage of this promotion &#8211; visit our <a href="http://www.elloquence.edu.sg" target="_blank" rel="noopener">website</a> or contact us 8742 2100. You can also drop us a message!
For timely updates, tips and information, do check out our <a href="https://www.facebook.com/elloquence.sg" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Facebook</a> page.
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5 Proven Ways to Help Your Child Excel In Writing

Do you have concerns for your child’s English Language proficiency? Be better prepared for a good head start in 2018.
Experts revealed that preparing your child for school has several benefits such as building confidence in them and also reducing stress on your child.
As such, does your child have any learning gaps that are preventing them from being better in English?
<h3>Learning gaps that your child may be experiencing</h3>
1. They have difficulty in organizing thoughts and ideas
Many children face challenges in organizing their ideas and moving from one idea to the next with a logical transition. Some of them also face difficulties in analysing clues in a given text and interpreting the text effectively.
2. They are unable to speak well in front of unfamiliar audience
Most children can speak well with their parents and among their peers, but not all are confident to express themselves naturally in front of unfamiliar audience. For example, some children get emotionally hijacked and perceive oral examination as a difficult hurdle to conquer.
3. They are often disengaged during learning
A child’s brain is like a sponge: don’t discount the memory work. Often, children are capable of picking up new vocabulary words and are very eager to “show off” to their parents about their new learning through daily living.
Unfortunately, when learning is disengaged from real-life events or highly dependent on rote memory, children may find it difficult to appreciate the meaning of words and lack the practices of creating ideas from words.
<h3>So how can you help your child close his or her learning gaps in the English Language this holiday?
</h3>
1. Encourage your child to practise critical thinking and share ideas
Children who are open-minded and have alternative ways of looking at problems are more capable of organising ideas logically and effectively.
They are not easily stuck in the past experiences or rigid about ideas.
This is called critical thinking &#8211; an essential skill that enables children to write convincingly in compositions regardless of the varied essay titles and to fully understand texts of different context in comprehension examination.
To develop critical thinking, your child must believe that thinking is fun and want to be good at it. Just like how you had practised basketball or any other sport, you get better at critical thinking with intentional practice.
2. Provide your child with opportunities to practise public speaking
A great presentation does not happen by accident. It is planned, rehearsed, then delivered with flair. Provide your child plenty of opportunities to learn and develop good presentation skills.
Public speaking is a skill, not a talent.
3. Engage your child with real world topics to expand vocabulary and improve creative writing
In educational settings across the world, there is a growing belief in using concrete, real-world problems to engage and motivate young minds to come up with innovative solutions.
Use real world events and happenings such as news articles from newspapers to engage your children.
<h3>No idea on how to close your child’s learning gap?</h3>
Let <a href="http://www.elloquence.edu.sg/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ELLoquence</a> give you a hand!
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Whether it be studying a comprehension passage or critiquing each other’s composition writings, we invite our students to be:
<ul>
<li>CLEAR We challenge them to be clear by asking for explanations and examples.</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>ACCURATE We encourage them to highlight related key facts using different colours to form connections within a text.</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>RELEVANT We invite them to raise questions or topics that are pertinent to the discussion. </li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>LOGICAL We think through the details of the topic from different angles, and encourage our students to make logical connections and challenge assumptions.</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>FAIR By making sure they consider other people’s perspectives when drawing conclusions, we weave in the life-long skill of empathy into their thinking processes. </li>
</ul>
Through consistent practices, your child will be capable of presenting facts and narrating emotions in their writing through the correct choice of words and sequence of events.
By applying critical thinking, they can learn to make inferences from the texts and explore alternatives and recognise assumptions. These skills are very useful to your child who needs to tackle higher-order thinking questions in Paper 2 of the MOE examinations.
The ELLoquence curriculum has been designed and tailored for Singapore-based students and are aligned to the Ministry of Education (MOE)’s syllabus.
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2. ELLoquence gives confidence to your child to become a better speaker
At ELLoquence, we equip your child with the basic skills of making a good presentation and provide your child with ample opportunities to exercise such newly-acquired skills. 
Whether it is through a project work or sharing of research findings, we equip our students with:
<ul>
<li>STEP-BY-STEP PROCESS We empower our students with the processes on how to plan and prepare a presentation.</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>EMOTIONAL AWARENESS We help our learners become more aware of their heightened emotions, thereby reducing nervousness and fear. </li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>CHARISMA We help your child gain rapport with their audience through a variety of techniques, including gestures, eye contact, and an appropriate use of humour.</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>COMMUNICATION SKILLS We build on your child’s confidence by helping them to be clear about what they want to say and how they prefer to say it.</li>
</ul>
Through such intentional practice, your child will be able to deliver their thoughts and feelings clearly and convincingly, in any context. Through consistent practices, your child will be able to speak more naturally and confidently in front of unfamiliar oral examiners during the MOE examinations.
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3. ELLoquence engages your child with real world learning
Students in ELLoquence can gain access to real world events and happenings, drawing on some 80 real-life themes to engage themselves. These themes range from ‘Self and Community’ (e.g. sports, friendship) to ‘Global’ (e.g. climate change, technology).
Through such a rich contextual approach, your child can pick up grammar, vocabulary and language skills much better than learning via boring textbook drills.
What is more, ELLoquence give our learners the opportunity to apply their new knowledge by participating in speaking and creative writing exercises!
<h5>Conclusion</h5>
ELLoquence English Learning Centre is confident in helping your child improves his or her language proficiency within a short period of time.
What can you do to let your child have a good head start in 2018? Let your child come onboard ELLoquence today!
<h3><a href="http://www.elloquence.edu.sg/contact/#REGISTRATION" target="_blank" rel="noopener">&lt;Exclusive Offer ONLY For Members of KiasuParents&gt;</a></h3>
<h3>If you are still unsure whether this works for you, we are offering 2 free trial lessons to readers of KiasuParents!</h3>
Take advantage of this promotion, visit our <a href="http://elloquence.edu.sg">website</a> or contact us 8742 2100. You can also drop us a message!
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How to Prep Your Child For a Good Headstart In English Language

English has become the language spoken most often at home in Singapore. The recent General Household Survey by the Department of Statistics shows nearly 40 per cent of residents aged five and older use English most often at home. Yet, many children continue to face challenges in using English fluently in daily conversation and creative writing.
What are the reasons behind these worrying trends?
The problem is that most children treat English as a school subject, which is the worst way to learn and master a language.
English is embedded in everyday life and contexts. This is the reason why real fluency cannot be attained through memorisation or assessment books—the progress gained through these tools are limited at best. 
Fluency is like a dance; learners must be able to relate their life experiences to the language in order to tap into their imagination. When your child is using their imagination, they are having fun; they are excited to learn; they are stretching their natural abilities.
So how do you spark your child’s imagination?
You can start by thinking about something that you love to do and imagine how it would be like to have the same passion for English. Connect the language to the things that your child naturally enjoys, including their natural abilities and interests.
Remember, “Life’s a journey, not a destination.” The same goes for learning English.
Here are 5 tips on how to help your child enjoy learning (and mastering) this beautiful language.
<h3>1) Connect English to what your child already enjoys </h3>
Perhaps your child has an inner artist, or he loves building Lego. Wherever his interests lie, use that as an entry point. Use new words to describe a favourite artist’s painting, for example. Or draw on his latest Lego creation to build a story or stage a drama; remember to throw in (or pretend to be) a villain, and use emotional words in your dialogue such as “bellowed” or “belittled” instead of “he said” or “she did…”
Another method is to draw on IT. At <a href="https://www.facebook.com/nomoseducation/videos/1761079054194758/" target="_blank">ELLoquence</a>, we embed technology in our lessons in a selective and engaging way, using it to help enhance our students’ understanding of certain topics, and to feed their curiosity.
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<h3>2) Organise vocabulary into categories for meaningful application of new knowledge </h3>
Context is king. A same word differs in meaning and weight when used in varying context. Hence, learning it is more effective to understand how a word has been used and why it is used in the sentence. 
This is why we begin every English lesson with either reading a text or watching a video. It is also why we encourage our students to learn phrases rather than words. Through this contextual approach, our learners are better able to grasp how words fit together with each other as well as their definitions.
Learners expand their vocabulary through better understanding of sentence making.
Jasmine walks into the house. 
Jasmine walks excitedly into the house.
Jasmine walks into the house with a bounce in her steps.
To consolidate this, we give our learners the opportunity to apply their new knowledge in speaking and writing exercises.  
<h3>3) Teach English using your child’s preferred learning style</h3>
The seven learning styles include:
<ul>
<li>Visual: Your child prefers using pictures, images, and spatial understanding.</li>
<li>Auditory: Your child prefers using sound and music.</li>
<li>Linguistic: Your child prefers using words, both in speech and writing.</li>
<li>Physical: Your child prefers using his body, hands and sense of touch.</li>
<li>Logical: Your child prefers using logic, reasoning and systems.</li>
<li>Social: Your child prefers to learn in groups or with other people.</li>
<li>Solitary: Your child prefers self-study.</li>
</ul>
Your child’s preferred learning style may have more influence than you may realise. It guides the way they learn, and may affect how they internally represent experiences, recall information, and even the words they choose.
To help our students achieve fluency, <a href="http://www.elloquence.edu.sg/exam_preparation/" target="_blank">ELLoquence</a>’s team of teachers plans a variety of activities to engage with the kids’ different interests and learning styles. A typical English lesson would include audio texts, video clips, group discussions, writing and reading exercises, as well as reflective self-assessments.
<h3>4) Have a goal in mind</h3>
With purpose, comes motivation.
Your child should have an idea of the benchmark and standards in order to progress towards them. In line with our national English curriculum standards, we will guide your child to identify clear learning objectives and pen down well-defined personal achievements.
Beyond academics, we also advocate learning English holistically and teach non-academic life skills such as confidence and etiquette in handling the language. After all, the purpose of learning English is to equip your child with the skill to communicate with confidence, act with intention, and handle different life situations with ease.
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<h3> 5) Practice and revise daily</h3>
As with everything, regular practice makes progress.
If your child does not have a habit to revise daily, start with small steps. The important thing is to be present to handle your child’s queries and arouse his interest to learn.
ELLoquence provides a digital curriculum that your child can access at home, at any time 24/7. You can also stay abreast of what your child is learning, so you can reinforce it at home.
Our hope is that your child falls in love with the English Language, seeing it not merely as a subject but also a life skill. When this happens, they will be able to attain higher proficiency levels, and do well in life to achieve their dreams.
<h3>Let your child come onboard ELLoquence today!</h3>
<h2>&lt;Exclusive Offer ONLY For Members of KiasuParents&gt;</h2>
We are offering 2 free trial lessons to readers of KiasuParents!
To take advantage of this promotion, visit our <a style="color: #0000ff;" href="http://elloquence.edu.sg" target="_blank">website</a> or contact us: 8742 2100 
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5 Proven Ways to Help Your Child Soar in the English Language

Have you ever considered what makes your child spend hours practising with his team at the football field?
What motivates your child to stay up late into the wee hours to experiment with out-of-the-box strategies to win in a computer game? Why are they never contented with the game scores they attained?
What is it that lies at the heart of these experiences which motivates your child to repeat these tasks and want to do more and much better?
They feel good about doing the tasks.
However, the same children may not necessarily demonstrate the same extent of passion and persistence in tackling comprehension questions, or perfecting their composition writing. Why is that so?
Wouldn’t life be great if we found a way to transform all that bustling energy into our children’s learning of academic English?
Where do we begin? The key to achieving this is by helping your child feel good during the learning of English.
<h2>Develop your child’s language skills with a growth mindset </h2>
It can be incredibly easy to kill a child’s motivation. An adult can respond with “Sounds wonderful! Are there other ways to elaborate on this idea?” when a child excitedly shows an attempt to create a new storyboard for his essay; Or ask this deadly question, “Why not full marks?” which impedes further conversation, when he shows you his spelling test scores.
A child will learn very quickly that no matter what he achieves, it will not be good enough.
According to renowned psychologist Carol Dweck, people with a growth mindset believe that their basic qualities can be developed through hard work and persistence; that brains and talent are only the starting point.
This belief creates a love for learning and resilience that are essential for future success.
Children who are too obsessed with scoring ‘A’s tend to run away from failure, and do not experience the joy and motivation that should accompany learning. 
In contrast, children with a growth mindset tend to engage deeply with learning. They don’t feel threatened by mistakes, and this allows them the freedom to process the errors and learn from them.
How do we instill such powerful way of thinking?
First, make the content of learning relevant to our lives. 
Your child should see the relevance of expanding prior knowledge for application, absorbing new knowledge, and creating synergy to make meaning from what he has learned.
Second, plan the process and goal of learning, and not leave it to ‘luck’.
Your child is aware of the milestones he is working towards. He is praised for improvements and is assured learning is a journey, not a “tyranny of now”.
Third, empower your child with the ownership to learn! 
Your child belongs to the 21st century and needs more than just a pen and paper job! Provide your child with a variety of learning tools which will entice him to practise the English Language. Contrary to setting boundaries, allows your child to experience learning as a dynamic, interesting and engaging process.
Finally, engage an experienced educator to help your child take action!
At <a href="http://www.elloquence.edu.sg/english-lesson/" target="_blank">ELLoquence</a>, we provide all these key elements to instill a growth mindset within your child who will benefit academically and acquire lifelong learning skills.
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<li>80 real-life themes encompassing vocabulary, grammar and language skills which are age-appropriate for children and teenagers.</li>
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<li>Every level is a progressive and pre-written curriculum based on best teaching practices and the Singapore PSLE and O-Level English requirements.</li>
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<li>Use of blended learning to facilitate knowledge and skills building. This approach gives your child the best a classroom has to offer – a teacher impacting skills and the use of the latest technology to engage learners.</li>
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The growth mindset makes your child feel good and purposeful about learning the English Language.
This gives your child the emotional security that he has room for practising, evaluating and re-applying his language skills throughout the programme.
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At ELLoquence, we design a customised learning plan according to your child’s existing level of proficiency, learning styles and potential for growth. We also engage your child at his pace of learning and recognise every progress made.
Our programme also aims to prepare your child to become proficient for the Singapore PSLE and O-Level English examinations one year before taking the actual paper.
To motivate your child to do well in his studies, we must first help him to feel good about learning.
Is your child tired of or disinterested in the English language?
Let your child come onboard ELLoquence today!
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How to motivate your child to do well in English

Does your child struggle with English?
Do you wish to help him improve in the language?
He may have developed a fear or insecurity towards English, due to either a lack of exposure or regular practice.
It is important for you to support him in his learning journey. Here are 6 simple tips you can use to help your child develop a solid foundation in the English language.
1. Read quality and engaging books 
“The more that you read, the more that you’ll know. The more that you know, the more places you’ll go.” – Dr. Seuss.
Reading enlarges a child’s mind in a way that few other activities can. When a child reads, he is not only absorbing knowledge, he is also firming his grasp of the language and picking up new vocabulary along the way.
Pick a relaxed time for you and your child, and make reading part of your daily routine.
Some classics to explore with your primary-school-going child are:
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<li>The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett</li>
<li>Amelia Bedelia by Peggy Parish</li>
<li>The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardobe by C.S. Lewis</li>
<li>Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder</li>
<li>Charlotte’s Web by E.B. White</li>
<li>The BFG by Roald Dahl</li>
<li>The Giver by Lois Lowry</li>
<li>The Light in the Attic by Shel Silverstein</li>
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2. Make the language come alive through interaction and discussion 
Whenever possible, interact with your child using proper English. It’s actually killing two birds with one stone – you’re bonding with your child while also helping to strengthen his foundation.
The easiest way to do so is over an activity, game or book. Simple everyday activities work best, such as a visit to the supermarket, or a craft activity that you plan to do at home.
Keep your usage of Singlish to a minimum, and don’t shy away from using new words that your child does not comprehend yet.
You can also help your child structure his thoughts in a clearer way, with a beginning, middle and end, using transition words such as “At first,” “because,” and “finally.”
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3. Engage all four literacy skills 
Reading, writing, listening and speaking are all part and parcel of the same learning process called literacy. Practice in one aspect enhances the others.
At <a href="http://www.elloquence.edu.sg" target="_blank">ELLoquence</a>, we make sure we engage our learners in all four literacy aspects. When we facilitate class discussions, our students listen and then speak out to share their own ideas. We also give them time to read key texts and then encourage them to practise writing their own thoughts or creative stories. We also help them plan and structure their writing so that it is less daunting and more achievable for them.
Engaging all four skills encourages learning in the most efficient and memorable way possible, and builds awareness of the rules, structure and syntax of the English language.
4. Allow sufficient time to practise past topics and skills
Let’s face it – children these days are often stretched for time. The thing is, time is what they need in order to truly learn and internalise new concepts. It may also require some repetition in order for these concepts to take root in your child&#8217;s mind. 
One way to help is to consciously revise new words or grammar rules. Have a notebook handy to write down these new lessons. You can also reinforce his learning by using these words in different contexts, so that your child is able to identify more examples relating to the same topic or rule. Remember, don’t force the language upon your child; instead think of small and creative ways to expose him to English. Set small achievable goals at the beginning so that he is motivated to learn more. 
5. Provide constructive feedback on your child’s writing 
If your child has started composition writing in school, you may want to work with him on critiquing his own writing. First, identify both the good and bad parts about his writing. Give him a chance to share his feedback first, and then offer your suggestions and tips.
Try not to be judgmental and to keep the tone light. You don’t want to make your child feel bad about his work as he is still an emerging writer. One tip is to point out what you like, and then say “Can you do more of that in future?”  
Also, give your child opportunities to ask questions or clarify aspects that he may not understand.
6. Use technology in an age-appropriate way to enhance your child&#8217;s learning 
Our children are digital natives – they are drawn to the power and speed of technology. While there is also a time for good ol’ conventional methods, such as scribbling ideas on a whiteboard, or writing on paper, technology can be an aid if used properly and with care.
At ELLoquence, children learn new and higher order vocabulary faster and experience better retention by using specially designed vocabulary apps. They then become more adept at connecting words to meaningful texts and are intellectually stimulated via the various levels of challenge.
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