10 Ways to Support Your Child?s English-Learning at Home

Posted by Sheetal kadu on January 17th, 2019

Do you keep looking for ways to help your kids to learn English? Give them free printable English worksheets or tell them a story using pictures, there are so many ways to grab their attention. The very first exposure to language for your kids may be the casual usage of your regional language such as Hindi, Marathi, Bengali, Gujarati, Tamil or others. You may be looking for resources to teach your kids English.

Here are 10 ways to support your child’s English learning at home:

  1. Flash cards

Make your own flash cards by mixing pictures and words to introduce new vocabulary to kids.

  1. Poems and Songs

You will be able to improve your child’s listening, reading and speaking skills with English poetry and songs that are written specially for kids.

  1. Stories

Learning a language becomes easier when you narrate exciting stories to your kids. Allow them to be creative and come up with their own stories. Encourage your kids to tell stories and let them find the right words to express themselves.

  1. Worksheets

Motivate your kids to practice English by giving them free printable English worksheets. To teach them English in a more structured manner, you can use worksheets as per learning level of your child such as English worksheets for Nursery or Class 1 English grammar worksheets.

  1. Speaking English at home

Kids usually pick up the words and sentences of the language their parents and other family members speak at home. Start with two or three word sentences for common things like ‘eat your food’, or ‘pick up your bag’ and so on. You can correct your child’s mistakes in a friendly way. To identify conversational errors in your child’s writing, you can also review their worksheets and correct them.

Free Printable English worksheets for Kindergarten

  1. Picture books

Spend quality time with your kids while teaching them using picture books. Help them connect those pictures with words. If you have the real objects or miniature version of the objects shown in the pictures then build conversation around those objects. For example, you can use a toy car to explain what a car does.

  1. Games

There are physical board games as well as online games to help your kids learn English. For example, board games like Scrabble or Pictionary help in building vocabulary. You can choose a game based on your child’s level of understanding. However, while using online games make sure you keep control on the screen time spent by your kids.

  1. Workbooks or Printable lesson plans

For structured learning exercises, you can download lesson plans or get workbooks based on lesson plans for teaching grammar, vocabulary, pronunciation and other aspects of English for your kids. Your kids will enjoy learning by tracing alphabets, circling letters, circling pictures, colouring the objects etc.

  1. Planned English sessions

Kids generally have a timetable for their school, home work and leisure. To strengthen their English skills, add planned English sessions in their schedule. This ensures that your kids are aware of the English sessions in their schedule. Add blended activity based learning such as songs, videos, worksheets, board games etc. to ensure that your kids look forward to those sessions.

  1. Crafts and puppets

If you are good at crafts or can use puppets to entertain while teaching English then use those skills to draw your kid’s attention to language learning.

While most of the methods given above are useful, worksheets can be great for structured learning as per academic curriculum or for teaching as per specific learning levels at home. You can choose from English worksheets for kindergarten to English worksheets for Class 2. 

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