Comments for Carol Read's ABC of Teaching Children http://carolread.wordpress.com Ideas, tips and resources for primary language teachers Thu, 07 Feb 2013 07:36:49 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ Comment on Q is for Questioning techniques by carolread http://carolread.wordpress.com/2010/10/08/q-is-for-questioning-techniques/#comment-3402 Thu, 07 Feb 2013 07:36:49 +0000 http://carolread.wordpress.com/?p=526#comment-3402 Thank you Grace! I’m so glad you find the blog useful – and hope your colleagues do as well!

]]> Comment on Q is for Questioning techniques by Grace Noronha http://carolread.wordpress.com/2010/10/08/q-is-for-questioning-techniques/#comment-3401 Thu, 07 Feb 2013 05:44:08 +0000 http://carolread.wordpress.com/?p=526#comment-3401 Hello Carol
very happy to read your innovation on ABC of teaching children!! The young learners in my school will be thrilled with the beautiful pictures that you have correlated with the letters! Thanks Carol. My colleagues will also find this new tool very useful and I’m sure it will be used by other wider group of teaching faculty!
Grace Noronha
Principal
Gonzaga School
(A Unit Of St Aloysius Institutions)
Mangalore India

]]> Comment on A is for Affect by Karen Holland http://carolread.wordpress.com/2010/01/12/a-is-for-affect/#comment-2049 Mon, 18 Jun 2012 12:55:11 +0000 http://carolread.wordpress.com/?p=19#comment-2049 Just try and stop me! You’ve got me hooked. See you soon.

]]> Comment on A is for Affect by carolread http://carolread.wordpress.com/2010/01/12/a-is-for-affect/#comment-2048 Mon, 18 Jun 2012 11:05:20 +0000 http://carolread.wordpress.com/?p=19#comment-2048 Hi Karen

Great to ‘meet’ you here – and glad you’ve enjoyed reading ‘A’! You don’t have to read the whole blog before the course! Just choose one of the posts that you find interesting and be ready to tell others about it and why.
Looking forward to working with you and everyone else who’ll be on the course as from the 25th!

]]> Comment on A is for Affect by Karen Holland http://carolread.wordpress.com/2010/01/12/a-is-for-affect/#comment-2033 Fri, 15 Jun 2012 12:44:20 +0000 http://carolread.wordpress.com/?p=19#comment-2033 Hi Carol,
I’m enrolled on the Primary school teaching course at British Council Paris 25th-29th June, and have just begun your ABC blog as per instructions! Loved reading “A” and looking forward to the other 25 entries. I agree that something as simple as remembering students’ names is so important. I always make sure I get the pronunciation of a name as spot on as I can. Just from my own personal experience, it makes such a difference to my self-esteem when my name is remembered and used. I haven’t done much YL teaching, but a first class activity I do with university level students is to do an adaption of the classic memory game “I went to the shops and I bought…”. I ask the students to think of an adjective (ideally one that describes them) that begins with the same sound as their first name e.g. Funny Fabrice. We then go around the class with each student adding their name/adjective. I always go last in the game, and I’ve found it an extremely effective way of learning the students’ names, and the students are not only impressed that I can remember everyone’s name, but they are also pleased and flattered that I should make that effort. Obviously this kind of task would be beyond primary school learners but the replies to your blog have given some great ideas to how the teacher can recall and learn the children’s names.
See you on the 25th!
Karen

]]> Comment on Z is for Zone of Proximal Development by carolread http://carolread.wordpress.com/2011/08/08/z-is-for-zone-of-proximal-development/#comment-1591 Wed, 07 Mar 2012 07:48:59 +0000 http://carolread.wordpress.com/?p=663#comment-1591 Hi Theresa
Yes, please do go ahead – that’s what the blog is there for! Hope the Q&A session is useful and leads to a stimulating discussion. Do encourage your students to add any thoughts or comments to the blog.
All the best from sunny Madrid!

]]> Comment on Z is for Zone of Proximal Development by theresa osullivan http://carolread.wordpress.com/2011/08/08/z-is-for-zone-of-proximal-development/#comment-1590 Tue, 06 Mar 2012 22:12:07 +0000 http://carolread.wordpress.com/?p=663#comment-1590 Carol, I am talking to teachers tomorrow about Oracy and wondered if you would mind me presenting your O is for Oracy page to them. We all recognise the need to improve the way in which we teach the students to structure their oral responses – I thought the Q&A session would be really useful – would it be alright to expose your ideas to us in East London on a cold and rainy Wednesday morning?
Thanks, Theresa O’Sullivan

]]> Comment on V is for Vocabulary by Blanca Rosa http://carolread.wordpress.com/2011/02/14/v-is-for-vocabulary/#comment-1577 Sun, 04 Mar 2012 18:20:32 +0000 http://carolread.wordpress.com/?p=614#comment-1577 Thank you for your post. I really try to use so fantastics and usefull ideas.

]]> Comment on Q is for Questioning techniques by carolread http://carolread.wordpress.com/2010/10/08/q-is-for-questioning-techniques/#comment-667 Sat, 19 Nov 2011 07:39:21 +0000 http://carolread.wordpress.com/?p=526#comment-667 Hi Romita
Many thanks for your encouraging words. I’m glad you think the guidelines will be useful.

]]> Comment on Q is for Questioning techniques by Romita Sharma http://carolread.wordpress.com/2010/10/08/q-is-for-questioning-techniques/#comment-665 Sat, 19 Nov 2011 07:25:47 +0000 http://carolread.wordpress.com/?p=526#comment-665 HI, carol,
You’ve done a great job. Every child is blessed and gifted. Your guidelines will be a tool for the TEACHER’S fraternity.

Romita Sharma
Principal,
Greenfields Public School
D-block, Vivek Vihar, Delhi-110095
INDIA

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