Helping Your Children To Be Successful Students
Is your child reluctant to go to school? Not bringing homework home? Refusing to read and write? Disliking mathematics? Parental involvement in children learning to read, write, and do mathematics is a key factor in them doing well at school. Parental involvement shapes the child's identity as a learner, and sets higher expectations for the… Continue reading Help your child develop their reading, writing, and mathematics skills: Don’t leave it all up to the teachers.
Reading and writing should be easy to learn Many children are reluctant readers and poor spellers who struggled to learn to read and don’t like writing. They prefer not to read, or see reading as work rather than fun, and write the minimum, using simple words they can spell. What a great pity this is… Continue reading Phonics: The secret weapon that helps your child learn to read and spell.
Learn reading, spelling and maths skills faster by making connections. The more connections (or memory pathways) your child makes, the better they will remember new information when learning to read, spell, or do maths. The new memory pathways your child is making need their full attention and the support of already existing pathways to grow… Continue reading Making connections – the key to remembering reading and spelling words, and maths facts
Revise, revise, revise, when learning - the key to remembering reading, writing, and maths skills Children are often not getting enough time to revise the reading, writing, and maths skills they are learning in class. Regularly revising new skills, even when your child seems to have already understood and be able to use the skill,… Continue reading Revision is the key
How to develop a respectful coaching relationship to help your child master reading, writing, and maths skills A respectful coaching partnership: Different but equal. Your child can be keen to work with you at home on reading, writing, and maths skills in the beginning. If you had a honeymoon period when you both loved working… Continue reading How to Develop Mutual Respect When Helping Your Child Learn New Skills
Handwriting is still a very important skill for your child to master. Junior classrooms used to spend lots of time on handwriting skills, but not now. Handwriting is still being taught, just not as often and not as systematically as in the old days, and there are many reasons for the present lack of formal… Continue reading Hand writing practice is important
Revise, revise, revise! Over-learning, rote learning, practise, and revision are all words that have gone a little out of fashion the last years - to our children's detriment. The longer I work with children, the more I become firmly convinced that regular revision and practise of basic skills enables children to easily master and use… Continue reading Keep revising basic skills with your child
Most of us live in a noisy and busy world where we rush from one appointment to another. Many of our children are living noisy and busy lives as well. They are surrounded by noise and busyness from the TV, play-station, radio, traffic, school or play groups, and from us. Our children do not always… Continue reading Before children can read and spell they must learn to listen
In the southern hemisphere another school year is rushing towards us like an out of control train and your child is going to walk into another phase of their life - as a school kid. Start getting your child ready for school now. There is a great deal you can do to help your child… Continue reading The first years of school
Families as Coaches 