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Irish extra help

  • 15-10-2012 7:42pm
    #1
    Wantobe
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    Just wondering if anyone can recommend reading or websites to help my eight year old with her Irish? She is finding it hard, spellings especially, and wants me to do some extra reading or something with her. Unfortunately we are already a bilingual house and I think it's a bit confusing for her to start off with.

    I had some great help and recommendations from here with an earlier thread on maths and she is already finding it much easier with just an extra half hour here and there. I'm afraid she is a bit of a perfectionist and unless she gets 10/10 everytime she's not happy.


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  • #2
    juneg
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,083 ✭✭✭juneg


    spraoiville.com i think.


  • #3
    byhookorbycrook
    Moderators, Education Moderators, Regional South East Moderators Posts: 12,514 Mod ✭✭✭✭byhookorbycrook


    Do you have Irish yourself?is she using look,say,cover,write ,check for her spelling?


  • #4
    Wantobe
    Closed Accounts Posts: 554 ✭✭✭Wantobe


    Look, Say, Cover, Write, Check- that's great, I'll do that with her straight away.

    Yes, I'm Irish and I did it in School, I wouldn't say I was brilliant at it but I was good. Unfortunately I haven't used it since school so I have forgotten a lot of it. It's coming back a bit as I do her homework with her. Also thank God for google!

    I took some books out of the library to do some reading with her in Irish, she loves reading, doesn't matter what language! Her father is french so between reaching for an english/french/irish word and the spelling she might be finding it tough to start off with but she'll get there anyway. It's just that she is a bit of a perfectionist herself, as I said, and has asked me to help her more.

    By the way, thanks very much for your help with the maths- just doing a bit here and there and now she is flying with double digit addition and subtraction.


  • #5
    byhookorbycrook
    Moderators, Education Moderators, Regional South East Moderators Posts: 12,514 Mod ✭✭✭✭byhookorbycrook


    Some O'Briens' Panda books have been translated into Irish,they are nice and attractive to early readers.
    Games like "Deir Simon" (Simon says) would be good for improving vocab in a fun way.fiosfeasa.com do cd-roms of books like the Drochlá Ruairí series.
    They also have a new resource called "Boghaisín na bhFocal" that might interest you.

    http://fiosfeasa.com/product.asp?id=43
    seomraranga.com is also a useful site.
    Glad to hear the Maths work is going well.


  • #6
    D4RK ONION
    Moderators Posts: 8,678 ✭✭✭D4RK ONION


    As an aside, if you wanted to improve your own Irish, there's great Irish forums right here on boards. Teach na nGealt is Irish After Hours, and I'm pretty sure all levels of Irish are catered for.


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  • #7
    Wantobe
    Closed Accounts Posts: 554 ✭✭✭Wantobe


    Just a quick update- my daughter has improved fantastically at Irish thanks to the implementation of the tips received here. She got a 10/10 on her last spelling test.

    Thanks again for all your help.


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