•  On Feb, 13, 2024
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Grattan Institute Education Nonsense Dr Jordana Hunter has a PhD — but not in Education.  Hunter’s areas of study are in Social and Political Science, Law and Commerce. She is one of the authors of the Grattan Institute Education Guarantee Report released in February 2024. Anika Stobart, the co-author, has first degrees in law and […]

•  On Apr, 14, 2023
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Some Children Can’t Write Some Children Can’t Write but they can improve! Links:  Upper Primary School, Page, Middle Primary School, Page , Early Primary School, Page, Early Secondary School, Page.  These pages give an overview of Tutoring Primary and many links to items for purchase. What affects people’s ability to write? This question includes “what affects children’s ability […]

•  On Jan, 20, 2023
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Closing the Gap Aboriginal children in remote parts of Australia are well below the national standards in education. Despite the objectives of “closing the gap” between First Peoples and the greater part of the Australian population over many years, we are failing. Further reading at this link: https://www.aihw.gov.au/reports/indigenous-australians/closing-the-school-completion-gap-for-indigenous-s/summary Can I say it in a kind way? […]

•  On Nov, 28, 2022
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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 […]

•  On Nov, 15, 2022
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Clear Classroom Clutter Clear Classroom 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 immersion […]

•  On Nov, 15, 2022
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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 […]

•  On Jul, 17, 2022
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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” […]

•  On Jul, 17, 2022
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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. […]

•  On Jul, 17, 2022
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Bees 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 […]

•  On May, 08, 2022
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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.