My English School

Our specially designed phonics classes and reading programmes help students progress through all the stages of literacy from phonemic awareness to fully independent comprehension.
·       Proven system
·       Classes from 2.5 years old onwards
·       Small class size
·       Attention to each child’s learning needs
·       Promotion based on individual child’s readiness
Components of our phonics class and Reading Programme
My First English Class
Classes of no more than six students are introduced to phonics, intonation, rhythm, pronunciation, and articulation through songs and rhymes. They learn how to confidently address a group aloud. Students build stronger vocabularies using pictures of animals, objects and people.
My English Foundation Class
Students gain the basic skills needed to progress to a complete phonics programme while building expressive, listening and social skills along with phonemic awareness.
My Reading Readiness Class
Students gain the advanced phonics manipulation skills needed to progress to the reading class while building oral fluency, listening and comprehension skills.
My Reading Class
Students progress steadily through a series of lessons that give them the ability to decode the printed letters that make up any written word in English, whether or not they have ever seen the word before, independent of meaning or context.
 
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Children from two-and-a-half thrive in a comfortable and conducive learning environment. The important thing at this age is that your child is able to concentrate when something has grabbed his or her attention. It is also a time where the child is likely to be chatty, to mimic and to express him or herself.  As such, your child will try to construct simple sentences and attempt to grasp grammar concepts.
My First English Class is a set of English lessons designed for kids in this age group to help initiate their ability to express themselves.
In My First English Class, your child will enjoy interacting with other children while working to improve his or her oral language skills through our individualized, structured programme.
Our activity-based programme will be presented with age-appropriate challenges and learning opportunities. These activities include “Show-&-Tell”, “Letter Games”, the singing of nursery rhymes and story time.
Structured English classes for children
Children in My First English Class learn to enjoy books as the teacher engages them in active listening and looking during story time. They improve their fine motor control through simple classroom-based activities. They learn intonation, rhythm, pronunciation, and articulation through songs and rhymes. In My First English Class, we also teach kids to confidently address a group aloud. They build stronger vocabularies using pictures of animals, objects and people.
At two-and-a-half or three years old, your child is ready to make friends and play cooperatively with other children in My First English Class. He or she will learn to interact with classmates and teachers politely, confidently and cheerfully through exchanging greetings and responding appropriately to questions and instructions.
Our experienced teachers are ready to stimulate, reward, and support your child embarking on a literacy journey.
 
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By now, the speech and language development of the child has progressed. Children three and up can receive instructions well and are ready to take on more responsibility. Learning to read is a continuous and gradual process that starts early on, when your child first makes connections between the words he or she hears you read and the marks and symbols on a printed page.
In My English Foundation Class, your child will gain the skills needed to progress to a complete phonics program while building expressive, listening, and social skills.
In this class, there is a stronger focus on each child’s individual articulation. The goal is for the child to become familiar with the entire possible range of English sounds in isolation and in combination with other word sounds. Each child must learn how to distinguish and reproduce initial consonant and vowel sounds of words for a comprehensive selection of objects and people.
The dual challenge is to communicate the concept of a single isolated sound to the child and to teach the child to produce the full range of sounds accurately. Children develop the ability to form the correct responses to prompts for the initial sounds of words at different rates, so our teachers tailor the phonics awareness portions of the lessons to each child’s needs.
Class time also includes story time and fine motor activities. Children continue to build presentation skills and vocabulary.
Our experienced teachers know how to instill the concepts and behaviours needed to help your child progress smoothly towards the reading program, regardless of age.
 
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In My Reading Readiness Class, your child will gain the advanced phonics manipulation skills needed to progress to the reading class while building oral fluency, listening and comprehension skills.
Lively oral activities will engage children’s minds in the challenge of detecting English sounds in combination. Exciting games and rewards motivate students to learn how to make words by hearing the component sounds spoken separately.
Children gain the critical mental key to understanding the functioning of the alphabet. They gain not only the ability to recognize and produce the symbols that represent the English language, but the realization that the letters are used to represent the sounds they hear — in a way that is fundamentally, if not always actually, logical and predictable.
Children continue to build vocabulary through repeated exposure to the phonics practice words. Homework activities engage students’ visual, creative, and fine motor skills in support of the programme goals.
All classroom and homework activities are practical preparation for reading with an eye to recognition of sound patterns and combinations.
Oral fluency skills are developed more fully at this level as students are expected to be more independent and confident in their oral presentations.
Story time engages children’s imaginations and critical thinking skills, as they consume and react to the people, animals, and situations described and depicted in the story. They learn to answer questions about how the story might end, or how the characters are feeling as the events unfold.
Our experienced teachers know how to introduce the oral skills in increasing difficulty while involving students at multiple levels to ensure that each child happily progresses at his or her own rate towards the reading programme, regardless of age.
 
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In My Reading Class, your child will progress steadily through a series of English reading lessons that will give him or her the ability to decode the printed letters that make up any written word in English, whether or not he or she has ever seen the word before, independent of meaning or context.
The programme introduces the sounds of English in a logical sequence that constantly builds the child’s cumulative knowledge of how to attack written words.
English reading lessons written with specially limited vocabularies eliminate distraction and incorporate sight words gradually so that phonetic methods of sounding out words are always emphasized. Memorization of individual words is a necessity, but in accordance with our method, does not become the child’s primary method.
English reading class
Children learn to systematically associate the sounds of English with their common spelling patterns to write words correctly.
Children will be constantly exposed to new vocabulary using engaging methods. They will be expected to recognize some words on sight.
Children become responsible for their learning not only through doing homework and reading practice at home, but also by completing spelling tests successfully.
Explicit teaching, one-on-one guided reading practice, and group reading practice are conducted in a way that is relevant and engaging, in an environment geared towards the focus on engagement with the printed text and writing materials.
Children are gradually introduced to basic grammar, capitalization and punctuation conventions, that are key to reading and understanding written sentences, paragraphs, dialogues and stories.
As students become more fluent readers, teachers will spend less time focusing on decoding skills and more time on reading comprehension and grammar, and will expect students to complete writing activities using correct capitalization, punctuation and spelling.
 
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Students with strong reading skills build vocabulary and begin to focus more on reading for understanding, answering comprehension questions and writing imaginatively. Grammar topics and spelling are reinforced as needed.

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My English School now offers a course called My PSLE Preparation Class. This programme helps prepare students for the Primary School Leaving Examination (PSLE).

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