Spelling Scramble

1) Learning objectives: To enrich children’s vocabulary, improve their logical thinking and lay the foundation for subsequent reading and writing abilities.

2) Theoretical guidance: Piaget points out that “Children’s activities are dominated by interests and needs”, indicating that it is essential to stimulate children’s interests to learn English well.

3) Creative learning: With rapid development in children’s language ability and gradual increase in vocabulary, children do not know or cannot spell some words. “Spelling Scramble” splits letters of words, and children piece letters together to form a word according to letters’ shape and color. Through the correspondinglearning of words and pictures, children’s photographic memory can be enhanced.

4) Suggestions for parents: Language learning is a gradual process, thus there are no needs intentionally reminding children to learn English. Instead, incidental education should be emphasized. Start from children’s interests. For example, tell children the words “apple” and “orange” when eating them.