Kumon Japanese 2A is the last Japanese language material for young children. Support your child's learning by understanding the images of the materials and points of attack.
Check the levels of the Kumon Japanese 2A teaching materials
The Kumon Japanese 2A teaching materials are as follows.
As a new concept, 'particles' are introduced; while adjectives and verbs were covered in 3A, in 2A students learn particles.
In addition, all hiragana, including "muddled and repellant" hiragana, are now covered, and hiragana sentences are finally coming to a close.
Checking the explanations of the Kumon formulae
Next, let's check the explanations of the Kumon formulas.
Fully master reading and writing of all hiragana (including muddled sounds, sulphurs, etc.). Learn the types and functions of particles. Learn to read hiragana sentences and understand the content of each element; learn to read sentences of around 100 characters with ease and with an understanding of the content.
The sentence "To fully master the reading and writing of all hiragana" is impressive. It is clear that the pre-school task in Kumon Japanese is to master hiragana. Also, the sentences are up to 100 characters in length, so by this point, you should be able to read many picture books.
At what age are these materials for learning?
It is also important to check the positioning of 2A.
It is the last teaching material in early childhood. As a guide age, it is a material to be studied around the age of five.
Families who start Kumon at the age of three or four and are making good progress in their studies will start to see children who can gradually progress ahead of their age in the course material from this age.
What are the key strategies?
The new elements covered in 2A include muddled sounds, repellents and particles.
Children will naturally hear these sounds in everyday speech and reading, so it is unlikely that they will know them for the first time when they start learning 2A. If anything, the difficulty may lie in the similarity of the shapes when writing the letters. The pronunciation of 'ha', 'pa' and 'ba' are obviously different and your child will easily be able to identify them as sounds, but the shapes of the letters are very similar. It will be easier to understand here if you can link the letter form to the sound using something like a hiragana poster.
The particle is a part of everyday conversation that is often omitted. When eating rice, it is rare to say 'let's eat rice' in conversation, and the particle 'let's eat rice' is often omitted in everyday conversation. Therefore, it is possible that even children with rich language in conversation may be surprisingly unfamiliar with the concept of particles.
The easiest way to give children the opportunity to hear particles is to read to them. The omission of particles is much less likely in written language. Even conversational sentences in the written language will often be written without omitting particles if the book is a proper picture book for around five years of age. The level of understanding will vary depending on whether they are familiar with the written language through picture books.
As this is the final stage of the hiragana syllabary, there are a number of concepts that are somewhat more difficult than the hiragana syllabary.
If you can get through this section, you will finally be able to use the material for primary schools students. Let's do our best.