Tip 1: Teach the written language code. Tip 2: Be empathetic and patient. Tip 3: Celebrate errors and use them as a tool to understand the student’s thought processes. Tip 4: Provide meaningful success. Tip 5: Revise, revise, revise and … Continued
The plot of a story is integrally linked to the characters. The development of the plot is revealed through the characters’ actions and the characters’ actions are derived from their values and attitudes (Aristotle, 2013). Identifying these elements is a … Continued
Matching texts to readers is a common strategy in many classrooms and school libraries, with some teachers spending significant amounts of time, money and energy organising books according to a level. The concept of levelling can be traced back to … Continued
The Dolch word list is a list of the words most frequently used in English. It was compiled by Edward Dolch in 1936, based on children’s books of his era. The list contains 220 ‘service words’ that have to be easily recognised in … Continued
We live in a society where being literate is crucial. Rather than diminishing the need to be literate, technological advances (at least in the short term) make literacy even more important. Where once we used to pick up a phone … Continued