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I learnt about the different components to make a sentence and the various ways to teach a language to students. Thank you Dr Liz for reminding us again on the importance of prepping the students first before we start on a task. Although time may always be a limiting factor, the quality of teaching and learning will be much better when the students are ready to receive new information and learn with an open mind.

-Farah

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Thank you, Dr Ow for making us feel comfortable during lecture & TG! Looking forward to learn more in and every else that awaits us in this module with you!

From the sharing during TG, I felt that the application of 5W1H was indeed important to help students understand a certain situation better. While some students may find it challenging to understand or process certain things an adult says, it is important on our part that we speak using strategies that will help them view the things we say in a simpler yet clearer way.

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My takeaways:

- we need to teach phonemic awareness first before teaching phonics

- the different components of language: vocabulary, background knowledge, phonology, syntax & grammar, pragmatics

- never surprise our students and always give ample of prep time!

I'm looking forward to learning many more strategies and ways to help our students learn!

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1. Increase the vocabulary using various resources such as,
- Flash cards E.g., High Frequency Words and Sight Words in 1 min dash
- Colourful Semantics to build the WH questions.
- Visual support to better facilitate visual learners.

2. Students lack of content (semantics) due to lack of exposure. Strategies to enhance background knowledge,
- Reading books, articles, essays
- Peer sharing
- Group work

3. Make it fun and enjoyment
Repeat in different ways at any age with a planned lesson carefully using reward system as a motivator. E.g., earn 20 clips to earn a toy.

4. Pocket chart aims to support the structure of the syntax and grammatical using WH questions. Visual cues is use as a visual prompt to reinforce their conceptual understanding.

5. Pragmatics is the figurative language where most of our students with special challenges have difficulties in reading non-verbal gestures and may easily receptive misinterpreted in social setting. As such students on spectrum requires explicit teaching and one way is social stories or role play may provide perspective thinking of others and how they can think made good decisions to sustain the social relationships.

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Today was an enriching and enjoyable introduction.

I learnt :

important to make learning fun and engaging

phonics and phonological awareness differs

start teaching from phonological awareness first

~Nur Faezah

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I didn't know there was so much to learning a language. English Language came easy to me when I was a student but it is not the same for children with language and learning difficulties and this is the time SENO like myself and others step in, to guide children with language and learning difficulties.

One takeaway would be if we want to work with children having difficulties with spelling, work on phonological issues first before teaching them phonics.

Usha

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Apart from learning the various components of teaching a language, I have learnt more from the sharing of the tutorial mates.

- Ahmad Idris

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I learnt that we must always practice to pre-empt our students and never give them surprises.
I also learnt to enjoy each and very step of this new journey and take things one step of a time.

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I learnt that we should not assume our students will know. And, it is important to identify our students' needs before using appropriate strategies for the language components. Moreover, always be patient to give them time. Thank you so much for the lovely book & chestnut to start our SENO journey!
-Joyce (Wee Ching)

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Always give time for students to prepare. No surprises”

Best piece of advice I’ve heard in a long while. Thank you for the knowledge and the chestnuts. Yums !

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I learnt that there are various components of a language - content, morphology, pragmatics, phonological awareness. It is important that we identify which area of weakness the student has and work to improve those areas.

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I learnt that there are so many components in language and it is important to find out which areas in particular are our student struggling in, in order for our teaching to be effective for them
- (Danya) Tan Yi Lin

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Thank you Dr. Liz and my group members  facilitated me in my learning via zoom today.
Student will learn better in an enjoyable learning process.
Chew Fong

Reply: Most welcome. Wishing you a speedy recovery!

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Would like to learn more about different interesting strategies to teach phonics awareness and phonics to SEN children.

Reply: Dear Jannah, we will be learning about that soon. Lecture 2. Thanks.

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Enjoyed the introduction and the goodies as well. Thank you for the notebook! Im sure you will make learning fun for us. Slowly remembering my phonics all over again.

Idayu Arifin

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Get to know one another better and the various phonograms!

- Winnie

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My takeaway is that we learnt from each other on how various strategies and methods are used to help our SEN students to learn language and literacy. We learnt on how different letters are produced differently according to the placing of the letters.
-Deva

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Remember to give my student (and also myself!) prep time so that we can be prepared for learning.

I also learned more about how oral language skills can be developed (and also strategies for teaching them) in schools by listening to other coursemate's sharing.

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Teaching spelling is not as simple as i have thought, finding the root cause is important as different child have different difficulty :)
-Yi Lin

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Make learning enjoyable and meaningful, your students will remember it better!

- Hanis

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Learnt about new games to teach spelling! E.g. Trugs
- Rachel

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"Always remember to give time for our students to prepare. No surprises!" - Something that I need to remind myself.

-Nur Rafizah Mazlan

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- teach phonemic awareness first before phonics
- always give prep time to pupils. no surprises!

(joanne soh)