Native English speaker stuck in an ESL class
Native English-speaking children placed in foreign ESL classes often find that standard lessons do not match their advanced language proficiency. This forces parents to take over teaching native-level reading, phonics, spelling, and grammar by themselves.
What people tried
Every workaround mentioned in the threads below. We haven’t tested any of them — and nobody here is claiming they worked.
Found another way around this?
Share your steps and trade-offs so fellow engineers don't have to reinvent the wheel. No account required.
- 1Designing specialized lesson plans focused on grammar, spelling, reading comprehension, and creative writingDid this help you?
- 2Teaching children to read at home at an early age (ages 5-6) to build a literacy foundationDid this help you?
- 3Allowing children to take regular ESL classes to easily breeze through while focusing on home-based or independent literacy developmentDid this help you?
In their words
Unedited, grouped by where they were said, most upvoted first within each place, each linked to the thread it came from.
“I’m also in this situation right now. Something I’m focusing on is grammar, spelling and reading.”source ↗
“I wouldn't have trusted the English classes to teach adequate reading and phonics for native level reading in lower primary.”source ↗
Where this came up
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