My Little Island (American English)
Levels: 3 levels
Language: American English
Overview
Welcome to My Little Island
A friendly place for children to begin their journey in learning English.
- Designed to help children learn to communicate in English through a four-skills-based approach
- Builds increasing language proficiency through prereading/reading, prewriting/writing, listening, and speaking lessons and activities.
- Children start out listening to and looking at picture stories and advance in the upper two levels to reading along with stories that have simple text
- Children progress from tracing letters in words to writing words.
- Listening and speaking skills, which are critical for language learning, are developed throughout the program with increasing emphasis in later levels.
Four over-arching beliefs
- Realities of the child's world must be at the core of the program and the basis for materials chosen
- A learner who is engaged will learn better
- Each child is unique in personality, interests, and learning styles and will benefit from materials that reflect this
- Successful learning only occurs when skills presented build on each other and are reviewed meaningfully