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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... by Nepean Tutoring | Home Tutoring, Nepean Tutoring
Understanding vowels is the foundation for reading and writing the English language. Try stringing a line of consonants together and ask your child or students to make sense of what they see. They will soon realize that vowels give meaning to words and create... by Nepean Tutoring | Education
Misreading the sounds “b” and “d” are common for emergent readers. Even when these youngsters write these sounds they are unable to correct their error unless they are taught specific strategies to differentiate between the two sounds and shapes of the letters. It is... by Nepean Tutoring | One-On-One Tutoring
Best practice Literacy Teaching has been the subject of much debate over the past decades. For many years large classrooms of children sat in sterile classrooms being drilled and practiced on what have become known as the basics. “Rote Learning” became a term to... by Nepean Tutoring | Education
If you would like to know where we sit against the rest of the world in regard to Literacy and Numeracy levels, take a look at http://www.abc.net.au/news/2011-11-15/coag-report-shows-australian-students-not-performing/3666272 It opens up a whole new debate, so feel...