Seven things you can do to get boys reading in your classroom
It's a challenge for teachers to get their students excited about reading. Yet strong reading skills are a crucial component for success. If you have boys who are struggling with reading (or who are disengaged or even require extension) try a few of these easy-to-implement ideas in your classroom. The results may surprise you!
1) Start a boys book club
Let the members c...
New enquiry into adult literacy and its importance
When children struggle to read, it can feel distressing in the moment for them and their families. The psychological effects of falling behind does leave an emotional mark, not to mention the impact of reading difficulties in seemingly unrelated subjects like math and science.
The more far-reaching impacts of low literacy paint a worrying picture.
How to Help Boys and Teens with Improving their Reading
No matter how prepared you may have felt at the start of 2020, there’s no doubt this year was nothing like you expected. The COVID-19 pandemic brought with it new parenting and educational challenges for all of us.
Schools and parents came to us with questions about virtual, at-home learning and literacy programs for the classroom and we supported more than a thousand students with...
2020/21 Reading Challenge for Kids and Teens
Dear Teachers and Parents, do any of these scenarios sound familiar?
- Your 13 year old only wants to read fantasy. If you see another book cover with a dragon on it, you’re going to hide it!
- You see all the reading challenge posts popping up, but your kids don't enjoy reading ..........you feel like a reading challenge will never happen.
- Your fourth-grade...
Designing a Literacy Program for Schools and Parents
What does it take to create and maintain a successful school literacy program? How do you engage the low achievers? Extend those with higher abilities? Help students to make it clear what they need to improve? How can I make Grammar and Punctuation 'fun'? I found out not so long ago when I was frustrated at trying to find English activities that appealed to my students.
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Improving Childrens’ Writing Skills: 10 Easy Tips
Aside from COVID, Australian students' writing performance has gained a lot of attention this year, especially in the middle years where NAPLAN data is analysed.
While the junior and middle years are the building blocks for writing, it is the senior years where our students are faced with high-stakes English exams.
So it's important to understand why effective writing skills ...
Beat the Study Stress: Top 5 tips for student organisation
Helping our students to study smarter and not harder is the goal at the tail-end of every term. Many students say that they are stressed and overwhelmed. Let's look at how can we equip our students with better organisation and time management tools to reduce their stress. The 'tools' to add to their toolbox include goal setting, note-taking, planning, self ad...
Helping boys close the reading gap
Up to 25% of children struggle with learning to read. It's not their fault. We offer a solution for schools and parents.
Our program, for use in primary and secondary schools, is uniquely placed to be effective as it caters especially to boys. Literacy for Boys offers a variety of engaging topics that appeal to boys' interests and learning styles. Our program is grounded in evidence-...
Comprehende? Helping kids “get it”: 6 Reading Strategies for Parents and Teachers
“James often plows right through reading, decoding words but not comprehending.”
“I can tell that Samuel doesn’t get the meaning as he works through a page...
An inspirational, MUST WATCH clip – recognising the potential in our students
Take a few minutes to watch this inspiring video about seeing the value in our children and the students that we teach.
One of the best parts of being a teacher is definitely those 'Mr Jensen' mom...