[IAEP] Suggestions needed for Learning(Teaching) reading (Steve Thomas)

Ian Thomson ithomson.nz at gmail.com
Thu Feb 28 19:13:39 EST 2013


Hi Steve,

Using Speek is great. Speek chat is also great and the kids have fun.
For some inspiration on how to teach (English) see Sugata Mitra's latest
video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3jYVe1RGaU

Ian

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> Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2013 18:32:13 -0500
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> today the FSF sysadmins went to the colo to upgrade the dom0 which
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> Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2013 20:09:38 -0500
> From: Steve Thomas <sthomas1 at gosargon.com>
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> I will be heading to Haiti next month and the teachers are requesting
> feedback and ideas on teaching English at the school I will be visiting.
>
> I am looking for good resources on methods of teaching/lessons, software
> suggestions and non computer games and methods of learning.
>
> I have ordered "Proust and the Squid" and am looking at Maryanne Wolf
> video's suggested by Mike Lee.
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> Thanks,
> Stephen
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> Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2013 20:50:42 -0800
> From: Caryl Bigenho <cbigenho at hotmail.com>
> To: Steve Thomas <sthomas1 at gosargon.com>, IAEP SugarLabs
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> Hi Steve,
> Are you using Sugar? If so, Speak is great. Fototoon is also very good if
> you have the students collaborate on writing stories. Without computers, I
> would suggest having the students write and illustrate their own little
> stories, make up little plays to put on for one another, describe to the
> class how to do or make something, conduct pretend phone conversations,
> pretend to go shopping, etc., and one of the most enjoyable things... have
> them sing lots of fun songs in English. They can have the words written
> some where to practice reading them and can talk about what they mean. They
> can make simple instruments to play along too... a few pebbles in a soda
> can, sticks to hit together, a plastic bucket as a drum... you get the idea.
> Have fun!Caryl
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> Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2013 20:09:38 -0500
> From: sthomas1 at gosargon.com
> To: iaep at lists.sugarlabs.org; squeakland at squeakland.org
> Subject: [IAEP] Suggestions needed for Learning(Teaching) reading
>
> I will be heading to Haiti next month and the teachers are requesting
> feedback and ideas on teaching English at the school I will be visiting.
> I am looking for good resources on methods of teaching/lessons, software
> suggestions and non computer games and methods of learning.
>
> I have ordered "Proust and the Squid" and am looking at Maryanne Wolf
> video's suggested by Mike Lee.
> Thanks,Stephen
>
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> From: James Simmons <nicestep at gmail.com>
> To: Steve Thomas <sthomas1 at gosargon.com>
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> Steve,
>
> I wrote a book on reading and Sugar which might be of some use:
>
> http://en.flossmanuals.net/e-book-enlightenment/
>
> and also:
>
> https://archive.org/details/EBookEnlightenment
>
> I wish I had the resources described in this book when I was learning
> French.  Project Gutenberg has some Jules Verne books that have never been
> translated into English.  That would have been a better motivation to me
> than anything my teachers actually tried.  (Not that I'm blaming my
> teachers.  I was a terrible student).
>
> James Simmons
>
>
> On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 7:09 PM, Steve Thomas <sthomas1 at gosargon.com>
> wrote:
>
> > I will be heading to Haiti next month and the teachers are requesting
> > feedback and ideas on teaching English at the school I will be visiting.
> >
> > I am looking for good resources on methods of teaching/lessons, software
> > suggestions and non computer games and methods of learning.
> >
> > I have ordered "Proust and the Squid" and am looking at Maryanne Wolf
> > video's suggested by Mike Lee.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Stephen
> >
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Ian Thomson
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Suva Fiji
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