Top 10 Homework Tips
Kids are more successful in school when parents take an active interest in their homework — it shows kids that what they do is important.
Of course, helping with homework shouldn’t mean spending hours hunched over a desk. Parents can be supportive by demonstrating study and organization skills, explaining a tricky problem, or just encouraging kids to take a break. And who knows? Parents might even learn a thing or two!
The Benefits Of Using LEGOs To Promote Literacy
In the classroom, promoting literacy is a practice that extends far beyond the mere ability to read and write.
Literacy is part of broad spectrum of competencies, including language acquisition, comprehension, critical thinking, and creative expression. Within this expansive understanding of literacy, we find the value of seemingly simple tools, like LEGO bricks, which can play a pivotal role in promoting literacy in innovative and engaging ways.
10 Tips to Develop Reading Habit in Kid
Creating a nurturing environment throughout the year fosters your child’s love of learning. The magic of consistent reading goes beyond turning kids into bookworms (those who read for pleasure five days a week or more). It boosts their social-emotional well-being, vocabulary, and language skills. Plus, it encourages them to explore and discuss the world around them.
Since 2010, the Scholastic Kids & Family Reading Report has monitored reading frequency in children aged 6-17. While the number of kids reading 1-4 days a week has held steady, there’s a concerning decline in daily readers and a slight increase in those who rarely read. This trend becomes particularly worrisome after age 9, when reading frequency drops significantly.
However, this isn’t all bad news. It presents a powerful opportunity and a chance to cultivate a love of reading in our children by establishing strong reading habits. Especially in today’s world, where educators and parents are working together to accelerate learning throughout childhood, effective strategies for building reading routines are crucial. Let’s explore some ways to encourage our children to pick up a book and get lost in the magic of reading.
Here are 10 tips to create a foundation for your child to become an enthusiastic reader
10 Ideas to Make Reading Fun in Summer 2024
As the bell rings on the last day of school and students transition from the rigorous pace of the classroom to summer, an opportunity presents itself to accelerate learning in fun and engaging ways.
Discover the benefits of summer learning and ten creative approaches to support literacy development during the break from school.
Just Read, Families!
Reading Begins at Home
Strong parental involvement is a key component of the Just Read, Florida! initiative. Other than helping your children to grow up happy and healthy, the most important thing that you can do for them is help them develop their reading skills.
7 TIPS FOR GETTING YOUR KIDS TO READ THIS SUMMER
By some estimates, the average child loses one month of overall learning over the course of their summer vacation—and two months of reading skills, specifically. This is a phenomena known as summer learning loss, and in practical terms it means that schools spend an average of six weeks each fall reteaching old material to get students back up to speed after summer break. Building in daily reading time for kids can help prevent summer learning loss to set them up for success next school year.
Here are some tips to make reading a priority this summer.
5 Resources for Parents Who Are Stumped by Math Homework
With a new school year underway, there are many exciting events ahead for you and your child. And then, there are some events you might not be looking forward to — like deciphering your child’s math homework! As new concepts and strategies are being taught, it may feel like you have no idea how to help your child. While I love math and teaching it, math homework can still be a tricky part of my own family’s nightly routine.
Reading Comprehension Tips For Parents – Strategies You Can Use At Home
Parents are their child’s first and most important teacher. It’s almost impossible to overestimate the tremendous impact parents have on their child’s reading success. Throughout the first years of school, teachers are helping your child develop reading skills that will enable him or her to become a proficient reader. But make no mistake, learning to read takes practice, practice and more practice–much more than a child can get during a school day.
Choosing the Right School: 10 Key Factors for Parents of Special Needs Kids
If you’re like me, you might find yourself surprisingly, woefully underprepared for your first special needs school search, especially if you are considering mainstreaming and attend tours that mainly consist of parents of typical children. The tour guide, whether it be a parent coordinator or the vice principal, is not going to offer up a special needs version of the tour most of the time, but will instead cater to the general audience and tell you how competitive their school is academically and how amazing their extracurricular activities are. There’s nothing wrong with that—it’s good to know those things, but depending on your child’s disability, academic competition and after school clubs might not be at the top of your list.
So what should be on your list then? Well, obviously priorities are different for each parent depending on their child’s disability, unique needs, strengths and personality, but here is my Top 10.
Benefits of smaller class sizes
1. Each Student Gets Noticed In smaller classes, it’s harder for students to hide and get left behind. Fewer students mean more personalized attention from teachers, encouraging active participation and expression of opinions. 2. Better Results Research shows that high school students in smaller classes achieve higher grades and perform better on university entrance exams. […]
