Help children express well
You can let them take part in some talks of adults by using language that they understand, but have to assure that the topics are suitable for children. Children can study new words when they can guess their meanings from the statements of others surrounding.
Teach them new words
Explain for children when new words appear in TV, radio, or comic books.
Teach them synonyms. For example, when they say "the next day", you have to teach them "tomorrow"
Open the dictionaries and choose a word that they can know. Read for children the its definition and let them guess what its meaning is. Help them know that some words have different meanings. For example, "scissor" have two meanings. The fist one is "a tool used to cut something". The second one is "using force to hold something towards their sides."
Write down pairs of the opposites in small papers. Tell your children to match all of them together as fixed pairs
Everyday you should choose a new word to teach them. Encourage children to practicing that new word and you also use them. For example, use the word "excellent" when something good happen.
Use daily newspapers as means of helping your children practice reading
Read for your children strip cartoon in the newspapers. Do let your children cut and collect all the comic books they like.
Read out for your children their sections related to their age such as children film program, same age activities, advertisements of buying and selling toys, clothes for their age.
Allow them to play roles as journalists and tell them to write on their own (or tell) based on whatever problems that you and your children used to do together. Let them "interview" you. Help them make questions and arrange them into a story.
Make use of TV programs and videos with a view to help children practice reading
Do talk to them about all the TV programs or about whatever films they have seen. Can your children tell you about natural sights or characters in films? How do they imagine if they play the roles of those characters? Do all films remind them of stories that they have read before?
Tell them to summarize what they have seen. Consider carefully what your children tell whether their summaries are enough for their brothers and friends to understand what the films are about and why we should watch those films. Help them read all lines of words whenever they appear in the screens; especially, all lines of words are not read out in TV programs, films, for example the names of urban, provinces and cities in the weather forecast programs, the names of characters in the interview, characters in the films, the names of streets in the maps for hunting for measures.
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