Having the guts...
Driving to school everyday since last year have forced me to pass by this abandoned train station. I do not know when it was firstly built and started operating. But I have known this station since I was a small boy who loved and admired train travel.
Visiting the old buddy...
One day, after school I dropped by at the station and grabbed my camera to snap some photos of the station. The signboard actually made me reminiscing something I learnt from the past. It was a day when my family and I (Abah, Mak and me) were on the way to the station. (It was my first time getting chance to be there and boarded a train). My eyes were spontaneously attracted to the signboard. I was unable to read at the moment, yet I asked Mak, for what was that.. Mak answered me, by pronouncing a proper noun 'KUALA KUBU ROAD' which immediately saved in my schemata. From that day until I gain reading ability, I marked that as 'KUALA KUBU ROAD' even though I could not read.
The learning process...
What I did actually was making the whole thing as a symbol. Instead of identifying the alphabets carved on the signboard, I took Mak's answer of 'KUALA KUBU ROAD' as a mental image. It is similar to showing a toddler a real rabbit and say 'RABBIT'. The toddler definitely will have it as a mental image. If we say 'CAT' for rabbit, the toddler should have that as 'CAT' until he/she grown up and somebody corrected the concept.
Make use of it...
Now I use this learning nature to teach my children reading. Instead of spelling the alphabets "B-A" -->> "BA", I just showed them a card of single syllable which written there "BA" and say "BA". Believe me it works...
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