I think it’s pretty exceptional to use English to learn other subjects at a cram school for kids in this age range. Keep in mind, they only have four or maybe five hours a week of English classes. There are quite a few “immersion” kindergartens and quasi-bilingual elementary school programs in which students have hours of instruction in English every day. At that kind of place, it’s common to use English to study other things. Some of those programs are good, but many are not. I regularly meet students who have studied four hours a day for years but still end up in my lowest level of classes. The grammar and phonics for the lowest level aren’t very complicated, either.

Unfortunately, most English cram schools I’ve seen have spent an unconscionable amount of time on whiteboard games that involve students racing up to the whiteboard and hitting words with hammers, throwing sticky balls at the whiteboard or similar activities.

Kids understand what he is saying. I see that China and Taiwan prepare multitudes of English speakers. The rest of the world is getting behind…:-)

When kids were reading, they put their fingers on the right of the word that is being read, covering next words. I would put my finder underneath the line.