Tutoring Primary (Elementary) Students

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  • Enquiry Learning Lacks Research, Post

    Enquiry Learning Lacks Research, Post

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    Enquiry Learning Lacks Research Emeritus Professor John Sweller of UNSW questions the continuing extension of enquiry-based learning in the face of recent research findings about how humans learn. In https://www.cis.org.au/publication/why-inquiry-based-approaches-harm-students-learning/  Three earlier posts published since 2018 from a hands-on knowledge of enquiry tasks in schools.   Enquiry Learning Needs Overhaul, Post        Enquiry Tasks Have…

  • Teaching Grammar is Back, Post

    Teaching Grammar is Back, Post

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    Teaching Grammar is Back  Teaching Grammar is Back and word has got around! On 22 September 2020 the Sydney Morning Herald published an article titled, “How does grammar help writing?”  Changes in the New South Wales school curriculum are afoot to introduce the teaching of English grammar in explicit ways. It has always been there…

  • Developmental Language Disorder [DLD], Post

    Developmental Language Disorder [DLD], Post

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    Developmental Language Disorder Developmental Language Disorder, or DLD, is the subject of two recent research studies. Well reported on the internet including in The Conversation. The term replaces Specific Language Impairment (SLI). This change is found in the DSM-V (English) and does not necessarily apply to medical terms in all languages. DLD means a person…

  • Clear the Clutter, Post

    Clear the Clutter, Post

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    Clear the Clutter Clear the Clutter. Classroom clutter confuses, especially weaker students. Now there’s a run of  Cs for you!  The classroom clutter overhead, on every wall, and every space harks back to earlier decades when Whole Language Theory dominated the teaching of literacy. Associated with Whole Language in the primary classroom was the idea of…

  • Dyslexia and Early Literacy, Post

    Dyslexia and Early Literacy, Post

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    Dyslexia and Early Literacy Dyslexia and Early Literacy offers hints on how to improve the teaching of dyslexic students. Explain to the student that Our alphabet has twenty six letters. And there are other alphabets that have more letters. As we only have twenty-six letters, fifty two if we include capital letters, we use them…

  • Teaching Handwriting, Post

    Teaching Handwriting, Post

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    Teaching Handwriting  Teaching Handwriting can be straight-forward. It’s a matter of learning a few phrases for regular repetition and a few others. It’s like learning to drive. Once you know what you’re doing, it’s easy and automatic. Links: This Page will be informative: Early Primary School, Page An early literacy lesson pack: “His Name is Nip”…

  • Elite Principals in Schools, Post

    Elite Principals in Schools, Post

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    The positive effect of parents’ socio-economic standing (SES) is less than it used to be and the negative effect of staff turnover in larger primary schools is now greater.

  • Reading – 3 Levels of Text, Post

    Reading – 3 Levels of Text, Post

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     Reading – 3 Levels of Text Reading – 3 Levels of Text of reading materials helps parents to help their children. Each text level has a purpose. Children choose their own readers or chapter books in the classroom. They are given reading time for pleasure. Usually, this takes place first thing in the morning or…

  • Mark Student’s Work, Post

    Mark Student’s Work, Post

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    Mark Student’s Work It is important to Mark Student’s Work. The sooner the better after the lesson! Many children do not get their school work marked by a teacher. Example >A class of Grade 5 students was given an Enquiry task. >>Some tasks were done in class and other tasks given as Home Learning. >>A…

  • Enquiry Learning Needs Overhaul, Post

    Enquiry Learning Needs Overhaul, Post

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    Enquiry Learning Needs Overhaul Enquiry Learning Needs Overhaul as it is not working well. Information needs to be presented to students in an orderly and structured way. Enquiry methods do not allow for this. Some academics and teachers include practical tasks in Enquiry Learning. If it is included, it has always been with us. Taking a…