17.04.09 - Star Phonics

Daddy always wanted keith to start learning phonics since he started talking at 2 years old but no one takes in kids so young. There were also restrictions of age of they need to know their ABCs before they can enrol them.

Mummy search everywhere and enrolled him to a home based class in punggol before but it didnt work out as they would need to teach him his abcs before teaching him and it is spending too much time.

Thinking that putting him in PCF will teach him his alphabets , we enrolled him in Jan 2009. Till now no alphabets were taught because they say they will be teaching phonics when Keith starts K1 if not they will be confused. :(

Mummy is confused now. Do they need to know their abcs or not?

Mummy saw from forum that Sengkang CC is providing Phonics classes but when she went to check , it was for older keiths. 5-6 years old and our keith is bearly 3 . :(

After much searching - she found THIS !

http://www.starphonics.com.sg/

What differentiates STAR Phonics from other Phonics courses?
i. Its a whole language approach. All 4 components of language (reading, writing, speaking, listening) are developed through experience with language through literature.
ii. Its use of music to introduce the sounds. Proven to be the best way for children to remember. Phonics Zoo has won the 'Parent's Choice' award.
iii. Its use of Phonemic awareness exercises to train the linguistic ear.
iv. Its secondary emphases on vocabulary extension and creativity.
v. Its creativity

What is it?

The STAR Phonics Licensing programme is designed to help you start a meaningful, affordable business in teaching early literacy, using a proven system.
STAR Phonics was developed by a group of educationists in 1996. Since then the programme has been receiving excellent feedback for its simplicity and effectiveness in teaching reading. Children love the sessions and were always eagerly looking forward to more lessons.
At the core of the programme is a clever selection of literature, games, crafts and music. Phonics is taught in the context of stories.

Why Phonics?

Research has demonstrated that a strong understanding of the relationship between letters and their sounds is fundamental to learning to read. In the last 10 years, more schools in the USA and Britain are moving towards the teaching of phonics to improve literacy. In some cases, dramatic improvement were achieved.
Knowing the phonic sounds early in life also helps the child to develop proper spoken English. Many Asian adults have poor enunciation of English because the correct sounds of the letters were never learnt.

What about sight words?

Developers of STAR Phonics are mindful that only about 80% of the English words can be pronounced using phonics. Therefore, in each lesson, STAR Phonics also incorporate the teaching of sight words (or whole words).

How effective is the lesson?

At STAR Phonics we use a systematic, structured approach. Lessons do not start with A,B, C and so on. Research has shown that the sounds S,A,T, I, P and N are easier to make. The students can also start forming many simple 3-letter words with these letters. Students are rewarded early and gain confidence as a result.

Alethea NgAllegro Phonics
9049 8488
Pearl Student Care Centre162 Punggol Central #01-01
starphonics@gmail.com

SO KOR KOR IS HAVING HIS FIRST TRIAL CLASS WITH TEACHER ALETHEA AND HOPEFULLY THINGS WORKS OUT THIS TIME ROUND AND KOR KOR WILL START TO READ BOOKS IN 40 WEEKS!