My friend once told me, what matter most is if your child feels the love and that you loved them in PSLE. The T score do not actually stop them from become the best if you loved them anyway.
星期二, 一月 30, 2018
PSLE is just part of a larger road map people travel in their life, lets not forget what matters most!
Today, in fact last week, I was touched by this video circulating in the web and lets enjoy what matter most.
My friend once told me, what matter most is if your child feels the love and that you loved them in PSLE. The T score do not actually stop them from become the best if you loved them anyway.
My friend once told me, what matter most is if your child feels the love and that you loved them in PSLE. The T score do not actually stop them from become the best if you loved them anyway.
星期二, 一月 16, 2018
How to train a child's composition and comprehension skills
How to train a child's composition and comprehension skills
Composition no longer needs to be flowery, you just need to write as if you had a story to tell and you could score. knowing a lot of good terms and phrases will be useful if you used them correctly and appropriately.
Comprehension requires one to ask fundamental questions like who, when, where, what, why and how? So thinking through the story and analyzing the story line for answers is a required skill. Copying answers are not encouraged if you are taking Higher Chinese.
1) Read to understand.
A) Read all the chapters and reading materials from the text book
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Xuele could help a lot.
https://xuele.moe.edu.sg/xuele/slot/u107/index.html
B) get a book with very good composition or comprehension passages
Firstly pupil have to read one sentence by one sentence, after a few days, read paragraphs and after a few months the whole essay.
Reading makes sure they "read" the words and pronounces the words.
c) Ask them the who,where,when,what,how and why questions.
d) ask them what does each line meant?
2) Write every day.
A story always has 4 elements;- Who, when, where, and what. and every short story should have a very clearcut story line.
3) bring e-dictionary every day and check it every time.
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Composition no longer needs to be flowery, you just need to write as if you had a story to tell and you could score. knowing a lot of good terms and phrases will be useful if you used them correctly and appropriately.
Comprehension requires one to ask fundamental questions like who, when, where, what, why and how? So thinking through the story and analyzing the story line for answers is a required skill. Copying answers are not encouraged if you are taking Higher Chinese.
1) Read to understand.
A) Read all the chapters and reading materials from the text book
.
Xuele could help a lot.
https://xuele.moe.edu.sg/xuele/slot/u107/index.html
B) get a book with very good composition or comprehension passages
Firstly pupil have to read one sentence by one sentence, after a few days, read paragraphs and after a few months the whole essay.
Reading makes sure they "read" the words and pronounces the words.
c) Ask them the who,where,when,what,how and why questions.
d) ask them what does each line meant?
2) Write every day.
A story always has 4 elements;- Who, when, where, and what. and every short story should have a very clearcut story line.
3) bring e-dictionary every day and check it every time.
.
星期四, 一月 04, 2018
Chinese PSLE: How to avoid Number 1 mistake in Composition - wrongly spelled words
Chinese PSLE is stressful and students still suffer from numerous misspelled words like English. So students really need to study their mistake and avoid this number one mistake, misspelled words quickly.
Students often assumed they have written correctly and did not even think of the possibility that they may be wrong.I observed that most students just turn a blind eye on their mistake in the hope that the mistake is overlooked by the teachers, yet they do not know that teachers have a pair of very keen and sharp eyes which are trained to catch error faster than a leopard running.
Despite the years of training, Students tend to be very careless and sometimes arrogant as not only that they do not check their work, they do not even read their compositions after it was given back for corrections, they simply do the correction and forgotten to study their mistakes.
Those mistakes would prevail composition after composition and their composition results will suffer. So how to avoid this number one mistake in composition?
1) Use a notebook to write down all the misspelled words in an orderly manner and study them everyday.
Taking notes has been very effective in helping students realize their mistakes and reinforcing their memory.
The key point is to scan through last years compositions and record all your mistakes in the note book.
Then you need to add more mistakes made by scanning for them in the compositions that are handled to students in the future.
Lastly students need to revise the note book eveyday.
2) Use mnemonics
Mnemonic devices turn words into a picture, a story, a sentence or anything that makes memorizing them easier.
For example,
a) 照: one japanese (日) standing with a sword (刀) at the door (口) and killed four people (灬)
b) 明: one sun(日) and one moon(月) makes the skies bright(明).
c) 赢: dead(亡) mouth(口)moon(月)seashell(贝)common(凡).
3) know your radicals
Radicals are the smaller components of a character,
Simple character are just one radical like 火、木、水、言、金etc.
Compound characters are made out of 2 or more radicals such as 炎、 林、淼、警、鑫etc.
Each Radical may carry meaning while some radicals carries the hanyu pinyin (sound) of the character. some radicals do change form like a transformer in a character like 土becomes地,火becomes煮（the 灬means火fire).
Radicals that provides sound are like 青, you know the sound when you see 请、清、情、晴、氰、蜻.
Radicals can be a category of things like 金 are like an element and you see words like 银(silver)、铜(copper)、铁(metal)、锡(tin)、铝(aluminum).
Here is a list of 100 common radicals to start your journey into Chinese characters.
http://www.hackingchinese.com/media/100-radicals-peter.pdf
4) Check the dictionary
Dictionary is your friend, use them well and learn the hanyu pinyin well too.
a) fuzzy check using 汉语拼音
You can check for two character words with hanyu pinyin like this:-
gaoxing 高兴
shangxin 伤心
You can check for certain phrases like chengyu and common phrases using the following method.
bgsqesy 不管三七二十一
b) strokes check 比划
normal if you see a word and you know how to count strokes correctly, then use this method would be fast for one word.
- count the strokes for radicals
- count the strokes for the rest of the character.
-choose a word.
c) writing check with a stylus.
change mode of checking (shu ru fa 输入法）to 书写.
then write the word on the screen.
(note: do not click on the screen as its not a responsive screen!)
wait a while for dictionary to recognize your writing.
choose the word.
Notes on the usage of dictionary in examinations, these are common advise by teachers:-
A) learn hanyu pinyin well.
B) write hanyu pinyin on the part where you do not know the writing of the word first.
C) check through all the blank words with the hanyu pinyin provided.
In practice, most students do not follow the above advise so they spent a lot of time on checking the dictionary and less time on the content and the flow of the story.
So I required all my students to be able to check dictionary in 15 seconds. Yes do not spend more than 15 seconds on checking dictionary, spent them on the content and the flow of the story.
5) Draw a picture of the word like
6) guess a chengyu by looking at the picture.
答案：1 断章取义 2长话短说 3不三不四 4七上八下 5无中生有 6 7开门见山 8话中有话 9网开一面 10 鱼死网破11僧多粥少 12可圈可点13一五一十 14点到为止 15虎皮羊质
And the last one is to get all spelling 100 marks every time. Do spelling every day, start with 3-5 words a day to 200-500 words a semester.
So start on the quest to stop misspellings now and hope your compositions will improve very quickly.
Students often assumed they have written correctly and did not even think of the possibility that they may be wrong.I observed that most students just turn a blind eye on their mistake in the hope that the mistake is overlooked by the teachers, yet they do not know that teachers have a pair of very keen and sharp eyes which are trained to catch error faster than a leopard running.
Despite the years of training, Students tend to be very careless and sometimes arrogant as not only that they do not check their work, they do not even read their compositions after it was given back for corrections, they simply do the correction and forgotten to study their mistakes.
Those mistakes would prevail composition after composition and their composition results will suffer. So how to avoid this number one mistake in composition?
1) Use a notebook to write down all the misspelled words in an orderly manner and study them everyday.
Taking notes has been very effective in helping students realize their mistakes and reinforcing their memory.
The key point is to scan through last years compositions and record all your mistakes in the note book.
Then you need to add more mistakes made by scanning for them in the compositions that are handled to students in the future.
Lastly students need to revise the note book eveyday.
2) Use mnemonics
Mnemonic devices turn words into a picture, a story, a sentence or anything that makes memorizing them easier.
For example,
a) 照: one japanese (日) standing with a sword (刀) at the door (口) and killed four people (灬)
b) 明: one sun(日) and one moon(月) makes the skies bright(明).
c) 赢: dead(亡) mouth(口)moon(月)seashell(贝)common(凡).
3) know your radicals
Radicals are the smaller components of a character,
Simple character are just one radical like 火、木、水、言、金etc.
Compound characters are made out of 2 or more radicals such as 炎、 林、淼、警、鑫etc.
Each Radical may carry meaning while some radicals carries the hanyu pinyin (sound) of the character. some radicals do change form like a transformer in a character like 土becomes地,火becomes煮（the 灬means火fire).
Radicals that provides sound are like 青, you know the sound when you see 请、清、情、晴、氰、蜻.
Radicals can be a category of things like 金 are like an element and you see words like 银(silver)、铜(copper)、铁(metal)、锡(tin)、铝(aluminum).
Here is a list of 100 common radicals to start your journey into Chinese characters.
http://www.hackingchinese.com/media/100-radicals-peter.pdf
4) Check the dictionary
Dictionary is your friend, use them well and learn the hanyu pinyin well too.
a) fuzzy check using 汉语拼音
You can check for two character words with hanyu pinyin like this:-
gaoxing 高兴
shangxin 伤心
You can check for certain phrases like chengyu and common phrases using the following method.
bgsqesy 不管三七二十一
b) strokes check 比划
normal if you see a word and you know how to count strokes correctly, then use this method would be fast for one word.
- count the strokes for radicals
- count the strokes for the rest of the character.
-choose a word.
c) writing check with a stylus.
change mode of checking (shu ru fa 输入法）to 书写.
then write the word on the screen.
(note: do not click on the screen as its not a responsive screen!)
wait a while for dictionary to recognize your writing.
choose the word.
Notes on the usage of dictionary in examinations, these are common advise by teachers:-
A) learn hanyu pinyin well.
B) write hanyu pinyin on the part where you do not know the writing of the word first.
C) check through all the blank words with the hanyu pinyin provided.
In practice, most students do not follow the above advise so they spent a lot of time on checking the dictionary and less time on the content and the flow of the story.
So I required all my students to be able to check dictionary in 15 seconds. Yes do not spend more than 15 seconds on checking dictionary, spent them on the content and the flow of the story.
5) Draw a picture of the word like
And the last one is to get all spelling 100 marks every time. Do spelling every day, start with 3-5 words a day to 200-500 words a semester.
So start on the quest to stop misspellings now and hope your compositions will improve very quickly.
星期一, 一月 01, 2018
What is your goal in PSLE 2018?
People and students often tell me what happened in their holidays and their dream school. I am glad that life is well for them.
However, staying in the comfort zone will not lead to better results, Its determination and persistant effort to improve everyday that creates better result.
Are you satisfied with your results, if no then
what is your goal for PSLE 2018?
Goals help one find out what they want, and from there you find out how to get there.
Last year I forgotten to reveal the one little thing about success, that success leaves a trail and a mentor would be best for students to get the success they want.
A mentor could be your parents, your friends or even your teachers. So aside from setting a goal, get a mentor to lead you the path with less struggle.
There is 3 kinds of knowledge:
1) those that you know,
2) those that you know you need to learn and
3) those that you do not know.
Of the 3 types of knowledge, its the knowledge that you do not that will help you the most as those knowledge are some thing that you will never discover if not your mentor.
A mentor had gone the path you want to success in and had success with it, They can tell you something that you do not know and help you avoid the traps and harness your hidden talents.
However, staying in the comfort zone will not lead to better results, Its determination and persistant effort to improve everyday that creates better result.
Are you satisfied with your results, if no then
what is your goal for PSLE 2018?
Goals help one find out what they want, and from there you find out how to get there.
Last year I forgotten to reveal the one little thing about success, that success leaves a trail and a mentor would be best for students to get the success they want.
A mentor could be your parents, your friends or even your teachers. So aside from setting a goal, get a mentor to lead you the path with less struggle.
There is 3 kinds of knowledge:
1) those that you know,
2) those that you know you need to learn and
3) those that you do not know.
Of the 3 types of knowledge, its the knowledge that you do not that will help you the most as those knowledge are some thing that you will never discover if not your mentor.
A mentor had gone the path you want to success in and had success with it, They can tell you something that you do not know and help you avoid the traps and harness your hidden talents.
“
One of the greatest values of mentors is the ability to see ahead what others cannot see and to help them navigate a course to their destination.
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