Language Skills Development

Conversation

Conversation is the best way of picking up a language fast. The tiny tots are encouraged to speak in English only while in the school. This interactive process of learning adds to their confidence and the more they speak, the more they learn.

Classroom conversation is programmed to make the process a joyful experience as conversation is correlated with events, festivals, experiences and daily observations.

Types of Books for Reading Aloud

• Alphabet Books : Alphabet books usually feature the capital and lowercase forms of letter on each page and one or more pictures of something that begins with the most common sound that the letter represents.
• Counting or number Books : In these books, each page usually presents one number and shows a corresponding number of items (two monkeys, five dinosaurs, and so forth).
• Concept Books: These books are designed to teach particular concepts that children need to know in order to succeed in school. Concept books may teach about colors, shapes, sizes (big/little) or opposites (up/down). They may focus on classifying concepts (farm or zoo animals, families around the world, different kinds of trucks or different places to live).
• Nursery Rhymes : These books often contain rhymes and repeated verses, which is why they are easy to remember and recite and why they appeal to children.
• Repetitious stories & pattern books : In these predictable books, a word or a phrase is repeated throughout the story, forming a pattern. After the first few pages, your children may be able to “read along” because they know the pattern. This ability will let them experience the pleasure of reading.
• Traditional Literature : Traditional literature includes fairy tales, folktales, fables, myths and legends from around the world and across the ages of time. Through these beloved stories children become familiar with many different times, cultures and traditions, some stories, such as Cinderella, vary slightly from culture to culture and it is interesting to compare their differences.
• Wordless picture books : These books tell stories through pictures, without using words. Wordless picture books give children the opportunity to tell stories themselves as they “read”, an activity that most children enjoy. In telling their stories, children develop language skills, they also get a sense of the sequence of events in stories.

Apart from these wonderful creations we have numerous imaginative Academic Activities ahead as they are the soul of a good learning process. The school, therefore, equally emphasizes on a variety of activities that enthuse and inspire a child to enter the realms of knowledge with an inquisitive and positive mind set.