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Slow Down, We’re Learning to Read!
Children with poor language skills can make great improvements if parents simply change how the read to them, a new study has found. The small study, conducted by the University of Sydney, followed 36 children aged four and five from disadvantaged backgrounds. Their parents parents were taught to pause and ask questions while reading books to th...
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Should Schools Be Teaching Parents English?
Immigrant parents who don't speak English can't help their kids achieve. That's the premise behind a program that's sending non-English speaking parents into primary schools to learn alongside their children. Is this another way of helping kids succeed or another burden immigrant parents have put on society? Thanks to funds from Toyota, the p...
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They Say: Organised House = Good Reader
I read the headline to this article, "Messy House, Messy Mind: The connections between kids, reading and an orderly home," immediately closed my laptop and set out to clean the house. I sifted through the books and stacks of paper on my desk, cleared out the piles of artwork waiting to be hung or tossed, found a home for every tiny Littlest Pet Sho...
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Grammar Returns To Australian Classrooms
I know I'm old because I just don't understand the need for Generations Y and below to speak in 'txt spk'. And some of the resumes we see here are terrifying with their complete lack of regard for grammar. But maybe it's not their fault - maybe English classes have gone terribly off course since I was at school. So I'm sticking up my hand and supp...
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Learning to Read through Video Games
Increasingly, books for children and young adults are being released with related video games. Since 97 percent of children ages 12 to 17 play computer and video games, this seems like a surefire to draw at least some reluctant readers into books. But when libraries host gaming tournaments and elementary schools incorporate video games into English...
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Buy a Book, Help a Child
It's shocking, but by the age of 15, more than one-third of Australia's Indigenous students do not have the adequate skills and knowledge in reading literacy to get by in many real-life situations. The Indigenous Literacy Project has been set up to turn that around. A joint partnership between the Fred Hollows foundation and the The Australian Bo...
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