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dictation

Posted by sweetdark · September 17, 2007 · 2 replies

hi

this my second year of teaching english 🙂

I have diffculty in dictation

some of girls don't know how to write the sentences for dictation >>>>>>i mean they write anything not the words that i say it🤦
they are in grade four now in this year they should know how to write paragraph

😃last year i taught grade one using phonics in dictation
😕but how i will do it with these they are big
😃and they will say this for children
🙂i need some ways to help them next week i will give them their first exam

2 Replies

emile

It's better to use a CD for dictation rather than speak out the sentences. The goal is not to get them used to your voice, but spoken English in general.

Good luck

HUE

I've used dictation a lot of different ways in my lessons, but I'll limit suggestions to two that may prove helpful to you.

One: Depending on the number of sentences given, you can present a short and simple story. Talk about your last vacation, for example, or what you did last Saturday. Because the sentences aren't random, but better mimic real conversation, comprehension is usually a bit higher.

Two: Provide part of the sentence, and dictate the second portion (or vice versa). With part of a sentence, comprehension rises because students have some expectations about what you will say.

Hope this helps.