Raising an Avid Reader and Confident Learner
Reading is not only an essential skill for everyday life, but also a timeless way for young minds to access the wisdom of the ages.
While we tend to focus on teaching children how to read in their early years in our programme, it’s equally important to ensure that they can read with understanding. This means helping your child not only sound out words, but also comprehend the meaning of words or sentences and relating them to his/her own life.
MindChamps Reading was designed with precisely this goal in mind.
Raising an Avid Reader and Confident Learner
While we tend to focus on teaching children how to read in their early years, it’s equally important to ensure that they can read with understanding. This means helping your child not only sound out words, but also comprehend the meaning of words or sentences and relating them to his/her own life.
MindChamps Reading was designed with precisely this goal in mind.
Discovering the Delights of Reading
An immense treasury of tales, facts and stories awaits between the pages of every book. Your child has only to learn how to make sense of it all.
Regardless of his/her current aptitude, MindChamps Reading will help your child master essential skills to read with confidence and joy.
Instead of traditional rote learning, our reading programme focuses on developing your child’s 3 Minds (Champion, Learning and Creative) to make him/her a more proficient reader. This includes:
- Learning “How-to” strategies to actively understand information while reading
- Drawing on the power of the imagination and connecting multiple perspectives to generate new ideas
- Achieving the right mindset to boost reading potential
Discovering the Delights of Reading
Regardless of his/her current aptitude, MindChamps Reading will help your child master essential skills to read with confidence and joy.
Instead of traditional rote learning, our reading programme focuses on developing your child’s 3 Minds (Champion, Learning and Creative) to make him/her a more proficient reader. This includes:
- Learning “How-to” strategies to actively understand information while reading
- Drawing on the power of the imagination and connecting multiple perspectives to generate new ideas
- Achieving the right mindset to boost reading potential
Programme Overview
Enrolment to our reading programme is based on your child’s reading abilities, not by his/her age. The level assigned to your child (Beginner, Intermediate or Advanced) is determined through a literacy assessment that he/she will take upon enrolment.
The curriculum for each level is taught over four 10-week terms, with each lesson lasting 2 hours.
Term Dates & Schedule for 2022
| Terms | Dates |
|---|---|
| Term 1 | Monday 31 January 2022* – Saturday 9 April March 2022 |
| Term 2 | Tuesday 26 April 2022 – Monday 4 July 2022 |
| Public Holidays | ANZAC Day on Monday 25 July 2022 and
Queen’s Birthday on Monday 13 June 2022 |
| Term 3 | Monday 18 July 2022 – Saturday 24 September 2022 |
| Term 4 | Monday 10 October 2022 – Saturday 17 December 2022 |
*Some classes might have different end dates due to replacement class. Please check with your class teacher or admin if unsure.
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Programme Overview
Enrolment to our reading programme is based on your child’s reading abilities, not by his/her age. The level assigned to your child (Beginner, Intermediate or Advanced) is determined through a literacy assessment that he/she will take upon enrolment.
The curriculum for each level is taught over four 10-week terms, with each lesson lasting 2 hours.
Term Dates & Schedule for 2022
Term 1 Classes: Monday 31 January – Saturday 9 April 2022
Term 2 Classes: Tuesday 26 April – Monday 4 July 2022
Public Holidays: ANZAC Day on Monday 25 April 2022 and Queen’s Birthday on Monday, 13 June 2022
Term 3 Classes: Monday 18 July – Saturday 24 September 2021
Term 4 Classes: Monday 10 October – Saturday 17 December 2021
*Some classes might have different end dates due to replacement class. Please check with your class teacher or admin if unsure.
8 Critical Aspects to Nurturing Readers for Life
Core Modules
To enjoy reading, children must be actively engaged in the process, for this will help them read aloud with rich expression. Once your child develops a love for reading, he/she will be able to tackle writing with ease.
Your child will go through the four important areas of language: reading, writing, speaking and listening. The more your child understands how these areas work, the more he/she will be able to analyse written text and think about the meaning behind sentences. These are important skills that will benefit your child throughout the school years.
Narrative intelligence is the ability to generate innovative answers through sequential understanding and unique ways of asking the right questions. Our reading programme builds this skill in your child through immersive reading and theatrical strategies, which will then develop his/her higher–order thinking skills as he/she learns to ‘interact’ with written content and knowledge.
Phonemic awareness is the ability to ‘hear’ and manipulate the individual sounds of a language. For your child to improve his/her reading ability, he/she needs to learn how to hear these sounds in meaningful contexts.
Through exposure to reading activities at our programme, your child will become aware of words as individual units and develop a sense of the sounds of words as he/she writes.
In our reading programme, we use our unique ‘Say & Sing Phonics’ method to help your child master the connection between symbols and sounds (phonics) by experiencing their correlation in a meaningful context.
As an early reader, it is important for your child to learn and understand the natural flow and rhythm of the language. Through engaging experiences with rhyme, rhythm, repetition and songs, your child will become familiar with the language and achieve language fluency.
Knowing and understanding a huge collection of words goes a long way towards building a skilled reader in your child. With an extensive collection of e-books in MindChamps’ Read-Along app, your child will grow his/her vocabulary through stories, rhymes and alliteration, making vocabulary-building an easy and fun process.
Structural awareness will help your child to recognise how words in a sentence fit together. Through the sharing of conversations, stories, poems, songs and ideas verbally, your child will discover how language is constructed and be able to relate new words and phrases back to what he/she has read before.
Hear from Other Parents
“Since Felicia started attending reading lessons at MindChamps, she has improved in the way she communicates, as well as in her pronunciation of words. More importantly, she truly enjoys attending her lessons and always looks forward to her weekly class.” Read More
– Hong Yuqun, parent of Felicia Chin Yu Xuan
“From a preschooler who could hardly read a complete sentence, Sonya now reads with ease just 6 months after starting the MindChamps Reading programme. The programme has also strengthened her foundation in phonics, which improved her spelling abilities tremendously.” Read More
– Bryan Lim, parent of Sonya Lim
