Phonics Class in Singapore

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Phonics Class in Singapore

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
  • Ability-based placement
  • Promotion by individual readiness
  • Small class size enabling individual attention
  • Classes from N1 onwards

Components of our phonics class and Reading Programme

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.

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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.

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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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My Primary Preparation Class

Students will hone their reading comprehension skills through a variety of techniques such as looking for contextual clues, inference and predicting as well as have greater understanding in meanings of words in context. They will express their understanding through answering multiple-choice questions and open-ended questions. Students will learn grammar explicitly, expand their word bank through a wide variety of vocabulary in context and practise writing skills.

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The 5 Elements of Reading Instruction

At these levels, students learn to…

  • Use basic spoken vocabulary
  • Hear and reproduce the sounds of English accurately
  • Isolate individual sounds of words (i.e. first, middle and last sounds)
  • Enjoy songs, sounds and rhymes

At these levels, students learn to…

  • Identify and produce the sounds of all the letters of alphabet accurately
  • Sound out words using letter sounds and common letter combinations
  • Recognise and apply common spelling patterns

At these levels, students learn to…

  • Use their phonics skills to practise reading independently
  • Focus on the meaning of what they read
  • Write answers to questions in complete sentences
  • Apply basic grammar concepts

At these levels, students learn to…

  • Recognise and understand an increasing number of words without conscious effort
  • Identify and use synonyms and antonyms of common words
  • Express curiosity about new words and discover meanings in context concepts

At these levels, students learn to…

  • Understand texts of increasing length
  • Follow a text consisting of multiple parts
  • Make predictions about story events
  • Identify characters and settings
  • Engage with imaginative stories linked to a variety of cultures

Phonemic Awareness

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At these levels, students learn to…

  • Use basic spoken vocabulary
  • Hear and reproduce the sounds of English accurately
  • Isolate individual sounds of words (i.e. first, middle and last sounds)
  • Enjoy songs, sounds and rhymes

Decoding through Phonics

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At these levels, students learn to…

  • Identify and produce the sounds of all the letters of alphabet accurately
  • Sound out words using letter sounds and common letter combinations
  • Recognise and apply common spelling patterns

Fluency through Practice

My reading class

At these levels, students learn to…

  • Use their phonics skills to practise reading independently
  • Focus on the meaning of what they read
  • Write answers to questions in complete sentences
  • Apply basic grammar concepts

Vocabulary Expansion

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preparation class

At these levels, students learn to…

  • Recognise and understand an increasing number of words without conscious effort
  • Identify and use synonyms and antonyms of common words
  • Express curiosity about new words and discover meanings in context concepts

Reading with Comprehension

My Primary
preparation class

At these levels, students learn to…

  • Understand texts of increasing length
  • Follow a text consisting of multiple parts
  • Make predictions about story events
  • Identify characters and settings
  • Engage with imaginative stories linked to a variety of cultures

“To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.”
— VICTOR HUGO (French romantic poet, novelist and dramatist, 1802–1885)

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