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worksheets for young learners
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fleur
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worksheets for young learners
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A little advise for teachers preparing worksheets for young learners.
Please do not use tiny pictures with too many details. At this age kids enjoy colouring but pictures need to have a simple outline.
Allow enough writing space for children at this age tend to write big letters and words.
Do not use block capital letters in words and find a suitable font. My favourite is ComicSansMs. I teach six year olds and have found very interesting worksheets but most of the time I have to make too many alterations by changing the fonts and spacing out worksheet contents.
Thanks.
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10 Jan 2009
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Jasmine99
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As you said we must chooes the suitable font
Thanks for this advise
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10 Jan 2009
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dennismychina
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Hi Fleur
I agree with you to a large extent especially with font and capital letters. Comic sans has nice lower case fonts and the �a� is as it is written. As far as colouring in goes, I think it is good to sometimes challenge their creativity. When I taught kindergarten (4yr olds) I included mandalas and nature scenes, along with the normally accepted 4 year old pictures, and encouraged the kids to use shading. As in all subjects, some needed more help and guidance than others (and of cause a few really battled) but in the end they proud of their achievements. |
10 Jan 2009
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