Tutoring Primary (Elementary) Students

Tag: early literacy

  • 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”…

  • Using Flash Cards, Post

    Using Flash Cards, Post

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    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.…

  • Bees Knees Reading Method, Post

    Bees Knees Reading Method, Post

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    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…

  • Reader Sets in Primary Schools, Post

    Reader Sets in Primary Schools, Post

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    Readers can confuse because each publisher uses their own reading level codes. Levels vary between schools depending on the publisher used.

  • Flash Cards – How To Make, Post

    Flash Cards – How To Make, Post

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    Flash Cards – How To Make Flash Cards – How To Make. The 100 Sight Words available on the internet to download are ideal. Here is the link:  100 Sight Words, Early Primary School Preparation: ~~ If you have some lead time with your Prep child, ask your circle of friends to save the card dividers…

  • Weak Reader, Post

    Weak Reader, Post

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    As teachers we don’t want children falling through the gaps. Parents of children with a learning difficulty need the same information but a lot more support, ideas and help.

  • 100 Sight Words, Post

    100 Sight Words, Post

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    One Hundred Sight Words  Often called high frequency words The First 100 Sight Words for Prep and Grade 1 is the quick route to reading. It does not change the importance of phonics in early literacy. The purpose of Sight Word Lists for early primary (elementary) school is for quick recognition. These words are frequently…