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The activity is that help children from 6 months to 9 years of age gain essential early literacy skills. This is a 10-week program that targets children in Senior Kindergarten and Grade 1 who need a literacy boost. In this activity, I was a volunteer, my main task is to teach children the word, including how to learn words by sight and how to learn a word by using the sounds of its letters. Through this activity, I am not only improve my english skills such as pronunciation, but also learn how to communicate with children. I enjoy communicating with children, and they often tell me some interesting things and play with me. So I think that this activity is valuable for my

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