A modern grandmother is not a little old lady in a headscarf. A modern grandmother seeks recipes on the Internet, watches films on YouTube, drives a personal car to do the shopping, and sends messages to her grandsons while dying her hair at a hairdressers’ or getting a pedicure. A 21st-century grandmother can also wear a headscarf, anytime she wants — as a turban on her head, for instance.
Last time, I talked about how the Teacher’s Books are an important component of my “Soroka: Russian for Kids” course. Today I will talk more about this topic.
In addition to helping students learn Russian not just by reading but also by listening, there are also three tests at each level of the course. If you don’t need these tests, you can use them as additional worksheets.
However, you need these tests. First of all, they are a good way to review everything. Secondly, the tests I offer are easy to grade, since these tests have the сlear criteria for grading. There are only 20 points.
Continue reading “Teacher’s Book Helps”I once mused online about how the teacher’s books for my “Soroka” course could help us teach Russian to students. And I was impressed with a comment someone made to my musings.
One mom wrote: “I am a parent. I am not a teacher.”
In the Teacher’s Books, I write in detail about what and how to teach, and the order we follow.
If you go to my website and click on “Look Inside” of the “Teacher’s Book” for “Soroka 1” and start reading, everything is clear with warmups and endings of the lesson, but then you start having questions. For example, you read the following:
Continue reading “Get Help from Teacher’s Book”“My son is 5 years old. Can we use the ‘Soroka’ course with him?” a parent asked me in an email.
It depends on how well the boy knows Russian, since there are 5-year-old children who speak Russian fluently and don’t need the Soroka course.
Language Focus:
НЕТ – No
Пожалуйста, встаньте! – Please stand up!
Стой! – Stop!
Review/Warm-up
Review the phrases of greetings and introduction. Address some students with the following words: “Привет, я … Как тебя зовут?”
LANGUAGE FOCUS:
“Алфавит (строчные буквы).” (Alphabet, lowercase letters)
Words, Phrases, and Translation:
Входите, пожалуйста! – Come in, please!
Молодец! – Well done!
Все вместе! – All together!
Кто это? – Who is that?
Это Ваня. – This is Vanya.
Continue reading “Parent's Manual. Unit 1 Lesson 2”Language Focus:
“Introduction, greetings, and saying ‘Goodbye’
Words, Phrases, and Translation:
Привет, я Вика. – Hello, I am Vika.
Как тебя зовут? – What is your name?
Пока! – Bye!
Смотри(те)! – Look!
Слушай(те)! – Listen!
Continue reading “Parent's Manual. Unit 1 Lesson 1”In the manual, you are going to find lesson planning. Partially it is going to be the same as it is in the Soroka 1 manual for teachers. For this manual, I did not include the exercises/activities that can be completed in a group setting. Furthermore, I would like to note that the difference will be that the manual, which you are reading now, is geared toward individual/one-on-one lessons with children regardless of whether the parents or teachers conduct the lessons. However, I am going to focus my attention on parents, for they have less experience and need to be guided/assisted more.
We set up the goals. Now let us look at the schedule. I am going to describe an individual situation, and it is up to you to apply it to yourself, agreed? Examine your schedule and the schedule of your child. When are you both free and when can you both sit down and study in a peaceful manner? It is necessary to have this time when nobody disturbs and bothers you. Do you have this time during the week? Mark it on your calendar. I would like you to study 2- 3 times a week, about 35-40 minutes every time. It is not necessary to make the lessons long. First, you do not have time, and second, your child gets tired. Your language lessons must be on a regular basis in accordance with the schedule. Remember to have short and frequent lessons
Continue reading “Manual for Parents. Part 2”This is such a long title. What for? It is done to invite conversation among people who are interested. This absolutely does not mean that others cannot join. On the contrary, it is necessary! When I write, I always think about my companion. This time in my mind it is YOU. Yes-yes! It is you. You are the mother who is living abroad and wants her child to speak Russian. Is that right? Wherever you are, you do not have the teachers you want. Or you do not like their curriculum. It is necessary to get down to work by yourself.
