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Category: Blog
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Using Flash Cards, Post
Using Flash Cards Using Flash Cards leads directly into the reading of simple texts. Links to early reading and writing products on Tutoring Primary: “Start to Read Stories” Prep, “We Go to the Park” Literacy Grade 1 ,“Grandfather and Me” Literacy Grade 1, “Toys on the Floor” Literacy Grade 1 . Children need reading skills to do their maths.…
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Bees Knees Reading Method, Post
Bee’s Knees Reading Method Teaching Early Reading – What next? Your young learner knows the letters of the alphabet and their matching sounds. Whether we call them Magic Words, Sight Words or High Frequency Words doesn’t matter. Some people claim that sight words are a bad thing. Their argument is that children learn whole words and…
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Handwriting – Improve It, Post
The 3-Point Principle is: Model the letter. Work on a couple of problem letters per week. Say: All downstrokes are straight, all upstrokes slant to the right.
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Reader Sets in Primary Schools, Post
Readers can confuse because each publisher uses their own reading level codes. Levels vary between schools depending on the publisher used.
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Behind The Scene In Schools, Post
You could find that Grade 3 material is being taught as if it is Grade 2. And children are being assessed for Grade 2 on Grade 3 materials.
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Learning Times Tables, Post
Are children as young as 5 really suffering maths anxiety and crying on their way to school?
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Enquiry Tasks in Primary Schools, Post
An enquiry task is often given to students with almost no introduction to the topic. That’s often the norm. Kids are learning very little from this method of teaching unless given a lot more support.
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Enquiry Tasks Have Pitfalls, Science
I agree with Professor John Hattie when he says that Enquiry sounds terrific and that the logic of Enquiry learning is well argued. The evidence, however, indicates that it is introduced too early.
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Teaching Grade 3 Literacy, Post
Read the text twice with your child. The first reading is for decoding. The second is for comprehension. A learner-reader cannot be expected to decode and comprehend well on one reading.
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Maths and Science TIMSS, Post
Maths and Science, TIMSS Looking over the Maths and Science, TIMSS Reports for 2011 — They give us the long range view of student progress. TIMSS stands for Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study. Discussion of the Report can be found at: http://www.acola.org.au Call science what it is! It’s not so hard! Overall improvement There’s…