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Books to read during school holidays

Recommended list of books to read for your child before they go back to school. These must-read books are good for children to get hooked on reading and develop a great sense of creative visualisation, opening their minds to different cultures and introducing them to different worlds as they read through this list of books.

Charlotte’s Web

charlottes web edukate book English tuition centre Punggol — Charlotte’s Web Book Cover, a classic and contains some brilliant story telling

Story about chances and how we need friends to help us in our lives told in the perspective of animals à la Animal Farm. Themes of discrimination, innocent naivety and humility are wrapped in a fascinating, well written package that presents a rich descriptive landscape of American farming culture. Exploring its parallel storyline with America’s own struggles with discrimination through the eyes of Fern and Wilbur, Charlotte’s Web tells a tale of the circle of life, of our own struggles and roles in society. Given another chance at life straight off from the beginning and with an innocent naivety, the story winds itself through the web spun by Charlotte, the spider and how it helps Wilbur escape a certain doom.

the-hobbit-edukate-singapore — The Hobbit, the first fantastical story that created a whole new genre of writers and written by Prof Tolkien for his kids.

Story written by J.R.R. Tolkien for his son and spawned a new genre of writing. Intricately written and carefully described settings create a beautifully woven landscape that brings the reader into another world. The story deals with cultures and emotionally charged where fundamental human values are revisited in the fight to do the right thing. The fight between the good and evil and the fight to do what is right. A story where different races comes together in strength against the dark evil, akin to Tolkien’s experience during his life in World War 2 and losing his friends to the war.

the bfg edukate punggol — The BFG, beloved and beautifully written. A storyline to be remembered

Written in 1982 by Roald Dahl, The B.F.G is a beloved story book that has been sold at a staggering 1million copies every year, attesting to its popularity by children and adults alike, and adapted into a movie by Steven Spielberg in 2016.

Explore the connected learning guides

Choose the question that brought you here. Open one useful guide, try a small task, and stop when you have what you need.

Enter Here — Find a useful first step for your family.
Hub — Choose the kind of information or help you need.
Learning Library — Find a focused learning guide and use it.
Vocabulary — Find vocabulary by level and learn to use words.
English — Explore reading, writing, creative writing and literature.
Mathematics — Find mathematical explanations, practice and checking routes.
Science — Connect observations, scientific ideas and explanations.
World — Explore places, institutions, evidence and connected systems.
Parents — Choose a manageable next step in family learning support.
Tuition — Find programme, subject, stage and location information.
Contact — Ask a question or enquire about a suitable class.

Take one question further

The same learning habit can travel across subjects, while each subject keeps its own methods. These routes help you notice a difficulty, understand one part of it, and return to something you can do.

A word is familiar, but using it is difficult.

Move from recognising a word to retrieving it in a new context. Understand vocabulary plateaus.

Try it without the guide: Choose one word you already know. Close the guide and use it in a new sentence. Explain why it fits; try another context tomorrow.

A piece of writing has ideas, but the reader loses the thread.

Make the order of events and the links between sentences clear. Explore composition writing.

Try it without the guide: Choose one short paragraph. Read the relevant explanation, close it, and revise the paragraph. Ask someone to tell you what happened and why.

The Mathematics seems familiar, but marks still disappear.

Find the first point where the working stops being reliable. Find Secondary 4 A-Math mark leakage.

Try it without the guide: For a Secondary 4 A-Math question you have attempted, locate the first uncertain line. Repair that step, then try a comparable question without the worked answer.

A Science fact is remembered, but the explanation is incomplete.

Connect the evidence to a scientific idea and the resulting change. Follow the Primary Science learning route.

Try it without the guide: Choose a familiar Primary Science example. Explain the evidence, the idea and the result without notes. Then change one condition and explain your prediction.

Two accounts of the world seem to disagree.

Check the question, source, date and evidence before combining claims. Explore the World Knowledge research library.

Try it without the guide: Take one claim. Find the source best placed to support it, note its date, and state what remains uncertain. Return to your original question.

There is plenty of help, but independence is hard to see.

Check what the learner can understand and do after support is removed. Understand how education works.

Try it without the guide: Choose one small task the child has practised. Agree on a calm, brief attempt without prompts. Use what happens to choose one next step, then stop.

For the structure behind these connections, read the eduKateSingapore runtime manifest and the eduKate ecosystem boot contract. The reader map describes public navigation; those manifests preserve the wider ownership and return rules.

December 8, 2017

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