Chintya Fitria Rachmawati
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2A

1. What activities are most challenging to teach reading to Young Learners before the age of 5 in my opinion might be when the child has problems in reading such as slow reading, a reading disability or maybe dyslexia and to teach it may require patience, sufficient knowledge to teach children like they,  and then do not push our child to read at a level that is a struggle for them. Practice is extremely important, but only in skills that have already been taught, and teach them with Phonological and phonemic awareness are language-based skills that involve the ability to distinguish, remember, manipulate, articulate, and process the speech sounds in words. These skills are critical for long-term success in reading and reading fluency.

2. I choose Story reading (picture story book) for teaching young learners

Topic: The Animals

Aims of Teaching: Students are able to say some words, imitate sound of animal, and spell partially/fully (dog, cat, cow, duck, sheep, pig, horse, chicken, and mouse)

Teaching with story books has been very positive in that my general perception has been that children become highly motivated learners within this approach.

·         Working with illustrations provides a creative and artistic learning environment which children respond to.

·         A story book provides a child-centred universe where abstract concepts are symbolized within the text and images.

·         It provides an ideal context for literacy practice as well as linguistic acquisition.

·         Supporting visual literacy is important in order to help children take meaning from text as well as develop aesthetic understanding.

·         Providing information through pictures is an important and fast developing method of communication in the global world.

Procedures:

1. Teacher reads the story with some animals have been learnt with the picture story book

2. Teacher models the sound of animals with the picture of animals

3. Teacher asks YLs to imitate their animals' sound