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What do 5 year olds need to learn?
There are high expectations for pre-primary students these days. From 2013, it is compulsory for parents in Australia to send them to school, and the new Australian Curriculum includes the Foundation Year documents specifically for this year level. This focus … Continue reading
How planning writing helps avoid “sentence spaghetti”
When faced with a writing task, many students plunge headlong into writing random, half-formed thoughts straight from their heads in an attempt to “just get something down” for the draft. The student usually has good intentions of turning this “sentence … Continue reading
Motivating young writers
+210Many parents unknowingly limit their pre-schoolers’ start to literacy
I’m all for letting teachers do their job in terms of teaching children to read and write, and for not pressurizing children to do these before they’re interested and ready. However, there are problems at kindy! More and more children … Continue reading
Is your child progressing well in writing?
Parents often say to me, If only I’d known earlier what to look for in his writing…. It can be difficult to know whether your child’s writing is progressing as well as it could be. School report comments are usually … Continue reading
Should children be writing by hand?
Some schools no longer teach handwriting skills, and choose to focus on embracing the latest technological advancements in their writing lessons. How do we know that we are actually helping our children if we allow them to predominantly use computers … Continue reading
Will mobile apps reshape toys and learning?
The Sandbox Summit took place on 17-18 April in Cambridge MA, at the MIT Media Lab. This conference was about exploring the mobile revolution and its role in children’s play, with educators and technologists discussing new and better ways to … Continue reading