I would like to know how can I teach grammar to my children? They are between 8 and 10 years. Thanks.
Angelica, Colombia
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I think the best way is to use some learning websites and a good library. Some web sites help children with pictures. It helps them to understand clearly. A good library has grammer books which are suitable for their ages and level. You can use graded story books in a library.
Chandhi Jayasundara,Sr Lanka
According to my experience, usually we do some movements for a paragraph that has already been written with a topic. For example: In the morning, I wake up (do some movements like you are stretching), then wash my face and brush my teeth (other movements), etc.-for Simple Present tense or you may have several pictures and then make a sentence after that ask your children to have their card and make a sentence of their own. For example: a picture of a bear and then you say, "A bear is an animal." then you give them a card of a tiger and ask them to make a sentence similar to yours by saying, "A tiger is an animal." or train them to write based on the picture you already provide based on the picture and sentence that you made as an example-you make a picture of a girl named Tana wears a jacket-the sentence: Tana wears a jacket. Next, you provide a picture of a girl named Dana wears a T-shirt and ask them to write something below the picture in the same form as yours. I think it's good not to force them to remember so many tenses but to stimulate them and encourage them to have so many exposures to the language that you want them to learn.Hope those ideas will be useful for you-as long as you are creative-you will make it!!
Victoria Dian Ginting, Indonesia
