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I used Minecraft to teach my kids reading and writing
- ArnoVW 6y agoPro tip: if you're trying to expose your kids to foreign languages, change the language of games to that language (in the same vain as "watch cartoons in that language)
- WrtCdEvrydy 6y agoEnglish learned through subtitles here... Star Trek TNG at night.
- cjm42 6y agoDid you listen to English audio with subtitles in your native language, or dubbed audio with English subtitles?
- WrtCdEvrydy 6y agoEnglish audio, english subtitles.
- johnisgood 6y agoEnglish and C learned here through ioquake3 forks. :)
- rhn_mk1 6y agoExtra tip: if you want to expose yourself to foreign languages, change the language of games you play. Works best when playing a new game, where you haven't memorized the vocabulary and the UI yet. Games which are not story based, but full of text (sims, managers) are good for repetition learning.
- lawn 6y agoWith YouTube's recommendation engine our 3-year old regularly watches cartoons in Arabic, Russian, Spanish and English. And he's using words he's heard in the right context too. (We're Swedish).
- leke 6y agoMy 10yo daughter has been playing Roblox for a couple of years. I was really surprised about some of the worlds she plays. To progress through the stages, players have to solve a series of puzzles. These puzzles can be anything you can think of, and I know because she would often call me for help with them. She hates school, and it's always a fight to get her to do homework, but she can sit for hours on these puzzle games and talk to people in different languages (basically), while typing like a demon. She still hates school, but yesterday we got a report from the teacher saying she's excelling in tests. This wasn't the case a year ago.
- gabereiser 6y agoMy autistic 11 year old has been playing roblox and Minecraft for the better part of 6 years now. He used to not talk other than single words. He can now spell, read, form sentences. This is all in addition to his IEP and education of course, but I like to think it helps. I never help him spell words to find games, I always make him sound it out and learn.
- pizlonator 6y agoMy eldest became a proficient reader because she was playing Minecraft. Don’t remember exact age when this happened, maybe 6 or 7 (she’s 10 now). Before Minecraft, she would go a word at a time and not really comprehend but once she started playing her reading became fluent within weeks. Had an immediate impact on her performance at school too. Now she’s into Roblox and I sometimes see her in Roblox studio hacking some Lua (or their version of Lua).
- fraoulitsa 6y agoHere is a Friend link for OP Medium blog: https://phoinixdurden.medium.com/i-used-minecraft-to-teach-my-kids-reading-and-writing-5361b5c49691?source=friends_link&sk=bf119639d5b931904168aaef3f8a248f https://phoinixdurden.medium.com/i-used-minecraft-to-teach-m...