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.
- 1Designing specialized lesson plans focused on grammar, spelling, reading comprehension, and creative writing
- 2Teaching children to read at home at an early age (ages 5-6) to build a literacy foundation
- 3Allowing children to take regular ESL classes to easily breeze through while focusing on home-based or independent literacy development
In their words
Unedited, most upvoted first, 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 ↗
Ice_cream99 · r/Teachers · 2 upvotes
“I wouldn't have trusted the English classes to teach adequate reading and phonics for native level reading in lower primary.”source ↗
Ill_Comb5932 · r/Teachers · 1 upvotes
Where this came up
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