Well here it is again-NAPLAN! NAPLAN, for those who don’t live in Australia, is whole nation testing in Year Five, Seven and Nine in the areas of English and Math. It comes around so quickly that NAPLAN Tips is possibly the best I can offer at this time. In this article I want to take a wander down […]
Teaching kids to read, write and spell can be improved with a focus on improving Oral Language.In this article I just wanted to get you on the road with some basic information that will help you support your child before the NAPLAN results are put into the back of our mind. These thoughts […]
STRUGGLES Cross the threshold and eliminate the problems that come with raising children. At times we all struggle with problems and feel that there is no where to turn. Perhaps you think that things are so bad that no one would believe, or understand. Things have happened in my life when I have felt alone and […]
Reading Four Once children are interested in reading, and as a parent you are continuing to read to them on a nightly basis, begin to teach the Concepts of Print which we began in the previous session, Reading Three. Concepts of Print are technical skills about print that are directly related to how reading works. In previous articles we explored […]
Online Literacy tutoring has been my life for about four years and in that time I have witnessed a huge deterioration in student’s narrative writing. Probably the main deficit is in the area of IDEAS. It is really not the IDEA that is the problem; it is the development of the supporting details. What do […]
