Beidakid Training Program

Introductions and course outline

 01 Introductions to
Beida courses
CONTENTS

CONTENTS 02 Introductions to
Wonder Skills

03 Introductions to
Pre-starter
Introductions to Beida courses
Introductions to curriculum

6-12y
primary school
students

master
4-6y
advanced
kindergarten intermediate
children
basic
starter
What do you know about K12 system?
pre-starter
Introductions to WonderSkills
which is for primary school students
 Introductions to WonderSkills

Beida is the first educational institute officially authorized to use WS course in China.

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STARTER BASIC INTERMEDIATE ADVANCED MASTER

MHE is a learning science company and one of

the “big three” educational publishers that provide
customized content,software, and services for pre-K
through postgraduate education.
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Introductions to WonderSkills

WonderSkills Reading a five-leveled comprehensive

reading course for English language learners in
primary schools. The program carries the core content
from the American English Language Arts Program
Reading Wonders with additional scaffolding and
support. Authentic stories and articles range across
different genres, school subjects, and cultures, which
enable our learners to become broadly literate. WS is digital PPT slides with highly interactive activities.
Reading skill is the main skill of the course.
Subskills are speaking and listening.
What do you believe is the most important problem that
Asian students are dealing with while learning English?
How to solve that problem?
Introductions to WonderSkills

WonderSkills Reading program offers a wide range of

comprehension questions and vocabulary tasks that
support learners to become accurate and fluent
readers.

It teaches and models close reading of the texts for

learners to practice key skills and strategies in each
unit.

“Close reading is a careful and purposeful rereading of a text.”

---Dr. Douglas Fisher
What are your thoughts on close reading? Have you ever met this
concept before?
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recommended lesson pacing guide-two lessons per unit

25Min
25Min
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recommended lesson pacing guide-three lessons per unit

25Min 25Min
25Min

25Min
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recommended lesson pacing guide-four lessons per unit

25Min 25Min

25Min 25Min
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Note: The above pacing is not fixed.

Parents may ask the teacher to extend the pacing or to speed up a unit.
Teachers will be duly notified if such occassion arises.
Let’s practice and have some fun!
More info in Close Reading in Elementary Schools by Douglas Fisher& Nancy Frey
Introductions to Pre-starter
which is for kindergarten children
 What is in the Pre-starter?

 Alphabet a-z
 numbers 1-10 What's Pre-starter for?
 addition/subtraction within 10

Pre-starter aims at laying a

solid background knowledge
for starter. It helps
 64 phonics six themes  8 colours
kindergarten children (4-6y)
be ready for the starter
learning.

 20 readings  5 shapes
 What are the learning objectives in the Pre-starter?

By the end of Pre-starter, students should be able to

develop the basic phonics awareness and word study.
Students should be able to recognize, read and say the
319 basic words, and know over 1000 expanding
vocabulary, and identify 168 sight words. Students
should be able to say the basic sounds and spell the
words.
Sight words, often also called high frequency sight words, are
commonly used words that young children are encouraged to
memorize as a whole by sight,so that they can recognize
these words in print without having to use any strategies to
decode.
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