Developing Reading Readiness Before your child can read and have good reading skills, they need to be ready to read. This is what we call reading readiness, but how do you know when your child is ready to read? And what is the best way to build reading skills at home? These are two questions …
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What is the best way to teach a 5-year-old to read? Pain-free? The short answer to this question is slowly! You need a lot of patience to teach a 5 year old to read, and you need to be extra supportive. Don’t underestimate how difficult this task is for your child, and don’t think there …
To start teaching addition to 5 year olds, you need to remember 2 things. It must be fun It’s an everyday occurrence and part of life The reason I say this, is because it is easy to get caught up in the idea that addition is… only part of maths, which is a calculation …which …
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What are Number bonds? Number bonds to 10, 20, 100, or any number for that matter, are a mental maths strategy. They are an easy way to learn simple addition facts by learning numbers in pairs. For this reason, they are sometimes called ‘Number Pairs’. These can later be used to make more complicated additions …
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To teach spellings to a 5 year old can be stressful. To be honest, to teach anything to a 5 year old is stressful, let alone spellings. So, what do we do? More to the point, how do we do it? Let’s face it, what self-respecting 5 year old is going to sit there obediently …
Do boys and girls learn differently? The short answer to this question is yes! Of course, they do. However, the follow-on question from this is: how and why do boys and girls learn differently? To answer these questions, we need to look at this in a little more detail. So, let’s look at how do …
I haven’t got a timetable – what should I do? When your child is off school, the biggest challenge is to get them to do school work. Homework is bad enough, but school work too? What you need is a kinaesthetic timetable. Let’s assume they are going to be off for at least 2 weeks, …
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Factors and Multiples Factors and multiples cause a lot of confusion throughout primary school. This is how it works… Factors are the numbers you times together, while the multiple is the answer. So the factors of 6 would be: 1, 2, 3 , 6 (these times together to make 6) 1 x 6 = 62 x 3 = …