Tutoring Primary (Elementary) Students

Tag: hints and help

  • Autism and Schools, Post

    Autism and Schools, Post

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    Autism and Schools Autism and Schools concern parents and teachers!  How children with a Level 1 diagnosis are taught is of special concern. While the DSM-V removed Asperger’s Syndrome as a separate diagnosis, it includes it on the Autism Spectrum. It replaces Asperger’s with the name, Level 1 Autism, but the diagnostic descriptors are the…

  • Some Children Can’t Write, Post

    Some Children Can’t Write, Post

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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 you an overview of Tutoring Primary and many links to products. What affects people’s ability to write? This question includes “what affects children’s ability to…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Handwriting – Improve It, Post

    Handwriting – Improve It, Post

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    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.

  • 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.

  • Enquiry Tasks Have Pitfalls, Science

    Enquiry Tasks Have Pitfalls, Science

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    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.