For children aged 3 to 7MindChamps Reading

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 in 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, 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.