a good start

I got a 10-year-old kid for private tutoring because her parents felt her school classes were not sufficient enough. In 2 years, they basically didn't practice anything but coloring their notebook. She was my first kid learner, so I went by instinct not by experience. We started with creating the alphabet: she had to write the letters on colorful stickers, glue them on the sheet, collect words with the letters she already knows, then glue pictures next to the appropriate letter.

 

By the end, she realized she did know quite a few English words; she learned to say the alphabet which she hadn't known before; and she made herself a fancy board to take home and practice the words from. When waving me goodbye after the class, she said she wished school classes were this much fun. (As for me, I felt to say I wished all my students were this enthusiastic and honest -- but I didn't say it. Because I am like most of my students: adult = reserved and polite.)

And next week she told me the ABC by heart.