what to do when your child gets it wrong
A five-week roadmap to guiding your child through their mistakes, without pressure.
- PriceS$87
- StartsFri 23 Oct
- Time10 min a day
You want to help at home. But when they get it wrong…
Your child is in K2 and starts Primary 1 in January. You just haven't been shown what to do in that moment.
Correcting on autopilot, every time.
“no, sayang, it's this.”Correcting, then wondering if you should have.
was that too much?Guessing whether you're doing enough at home.
am I doing enough?Not knowing which mistakes matter.
let it go… or not?
When your child says or writes something “wrong”, what's usually your first move?
School teaches the language rules. Home makes the language meaningful.
Correcting isn't the only way a child learns. There's a step that comes before it, and most of us skip it without realising.
Home works alongside school. You don't need to turn your home into a classroom. You need to know what to do in the small moments.
a correction fixes today's mistake. noticing tells you tomorrow's lesson.
The Notice Method, in four moves.
You learn one move a week, inside what you already do: meals, bedtime reading, the walk to school.
The full method →-
1
Catch it.
Your child meets a piece of language. You notice: in what they say at meals, the notes they leave you, the captions on their drawings.
“Ummi, she is a girl.” -
2
Check it.
Right? Validate. Not quite? Correct, wait, or ask. The question I use most: “What do you understand by…?”
correct · wait · ask -
3
Find it.
Tab three or four examples in a book you both know. A familiar book works best, because they've already heard those sentences.
three tabs, three examples -
4
Talk it through.
One question that points at it, then what it does in plain words. “The mark means it belongs to someone.” No grammar term yet.
plain words first -
Then leave one blank.
Copy the examples out and let your child fill in the last one. Try it.
ride
like
time
fiv
Five weeks. One small step a week.
About ten minutes a day. If a week gets away from you, repeat it. There is no “behind”.
What's inside
Four things, all for the five weeks.
first.
The guide
Four short parts, one a week. A 37-page PDF you can read at 9pm, tired, with ten minutes to spare.
4 printable tools
Your five-week plan, My Noticing Record, the four-blocks fridge sheet, and Notice in four moves.
Weekly check-ins
A WhatsApp nudge each week, so you don't do it alone.
Live Q&A
Bring one thing from your Noticing Record. We look at it together on Zoom, recorded.
By week five, you know.
What your child is working on, how to guide them, and that you're doing enough. Without pressure, so your child keeps writing.
Less
- Correcting on autopilot
- Correcting, then wondering if you should have
- Guessing whether you're doing enough
More
- Knowing what she's working on
- Knowing what to guide her with next
- A child who keeps writing
Built by a linguist, so you can hear it too.
I'm an ex-MOE English teacher with a Linguistics degree from NTU. I'm a mum of three who homeschools, and I write children's picture books.
I use The Notice Method with my own children, and on my own Arabic learning.
look's good
When my six-year-old wrote this in her scrapbook, I didn't correct it straight away. I asked what the squiggly line was. “I always see that in books,” she said. That told me more than a correction ever could.
Filzah
Read why I made this →“Why lepas kelas je i rasa nak tulis?”
Join the roadmap
So you know you're doing enough at home.
what to do when your child gets it wrong
One payment. Five weeks. Yours to keep.
- The guide: four short parts, one a week
- 4 printable tools
- Weekly WhatsApp check-ins
- Live Q&A on Zoom in week 5, recorded
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Questions
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