Five Jars and a Great Story

Just imagine that “text types” as we know them were thrown out for a day and we inspired students to write a quirky creative story that engaged them in vocabulary development and sentence and paragraph structure. Try this idea to whet their appetite for creative...

Five Jars and a Great Story

Just imagine that “text types” as we know them were thrown out for a day and we inspired students to write a quirky creative story that engaged them in vocabulary development and sentence and paragraph structure. Try this idea to whet their appetite for creative...

Reading – Ideas to Ponder

As a major form of communication, reading has been used since the earliest civilizations.  It is how we have found  answers about the past and are able to research topics of interest about the present. It is the greatest form of pleasure for many people and more...

Why tutoring?

I was fortunate enough to work as a One on One tutor in England for a short time in 2010. From this experience I realised the value of spending time working on children’s academic weaknesses on a One on One tutoring basis. I was so impressed with the amount of...