•  On Sep, 06, 2023
•  Tutoring Primary

Vision Impaired Children – Lessons  Our lesson packs may be very suitable for vision impaired children. Materials are in Calabri 16pt up to about Grade 5 or 6. For higher grades they are written in 14pt. In some packs the written tasks section may be in 14pt. This is to save space and reduce the […]

•  On May, 17, 2023
•  Tutoring Primary

Results of PIRLS 2021 show student achievement in reading is holding steady.

•  On Apr, 14, 2023
•  Tutoring Primary

Some Children Can’t Write What affects people’s ability to write? This question includes “what affects children’s ability to write?” May be ADHD Developmental Language Disorder (DLD); or Aspergers (first level of autism). Learning difficulties can mean Some Children Can’t Write. In this post, the theme is teachers may be able to do better. More teaching. More […]

•  On Dec, 18, 2022
•  Tutoring Primary

NAPLAN Results 2022 NAPLAN Results 2022 confirm the trend: for ten years literacy results indicate students are not moving forward between Grade 4 and Year 7. Australian schools are good at teaching early literacy. By Year 4, students can >decode the text on the page; >answer questions relating to the chronology of stories; >find explicit […]

•  On Dec, 07, 2022
•  Tutoring Primary

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 […]

•  On Nov, 28, 2022
•  Tutoring Primary

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 May, 08, 2022
•  Tutoring Primary

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.

•  On May, 08, 2022
•  Tutoring Primary

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.

•  On Sep, 14, 2018
•  Mary Keating

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.

•  On Aug, 05, 2018
•  Mary Keating

A further 13% of 4th graders in Australia scored at the Low Benchmark. So 20% are reading at or below the Low Benchmark. Influencing these results is the rate of tiredness and hunger on arrival at school.