Book Trade
Helping your children organise a neighbourhood book trade is a great way to update your children’s personal library as well as help develop organisational skills. Before the Trade Day of the Trade At the End of the Trade
Discussing Books
Sometimes a good way to ‘kill’ a child’s interest in reading is to ask questions about the book. As soon as you are asking questions, you are testing and for many children (especially poor readers) testing can be stressful. Instead … Continued
Science Experiments
Jonte Lee is a chemistry teacher who transformed his kitchen into a classroom. The information in the series ‘Try this at home: Science experiments for all ages’ is not directly related to literacy. However, once a student can decode and … Continued
Nurturing a Love of Reading
Teaching reading and nurturing a love of reading are two different, but interlinked issues. If your child is struggling to learn to read, then this needs to be addressed with explicit, direct instruction. However, we also need to nurture a … Continued
Building Vocabulary
It is now well established that a child’s oral vocabulary is an important component of literacy. The development of children’s vocabulary does not come from the texts that they read as the words used in these texts are very much … Continued