Girls are encouraged more often to read, despite performing better in reading assessments nationally and internationally. Here’s how parents and educators can help connect boys with books.
Sending text-message reminders and tips to parents can help boost their children’s reading skills.
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Providing text-message tips to parents on how to make their children stronger readers can make a difference, but only if parents don’t get too many or too few text messages, researchers find.
The current debate about comparability would be more concerning if 2018 results showed radically different trends compared to previous years, but they don’t.
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The current debate about comparability would be more concerning if 2018 results showed radically different trends compared to previous years, but they don’t.
Stories take children on imaginary adventures.
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Most book clubs are white and middle-class. Even today, books and reading can presume a divide between Indigenous oral story-telling and non-Indigenous literacy.
“Aitch” or “Haitch”? It’s long been a point of contestation among English speakers.
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An unspoken class war has long been waged around the pronounciation of the letter “h” - is it haitch or aitch? Despite a snobbish leaning to the latter, haitch makes more sense.
Sea ice off of East Antarctica’s Princess Astrid Coast.
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The NSW government will review the K-12 curriculum over the next 18 months. Simplistic approaches may suggest reducing the number of subjects, but this would be a backward step.
Trends in education suggest an increased focus on the assessment and teaching of thinking skills in the future.
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To assess problem-solving, creative and critical thinking skills on NAPLAN would fit with broader movements in education internationally, but there are some questions to address first.
Reading is a crucial skill, and several strategies can help children improve their reading.
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Initiatives to tackle South Africa’s reading crisis must take the country’s realities into account.
Getting rid of NAPLAN would remove a distraction from the classroom and allow teachers more time to understand and address the needs of the students.
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The recently released Gonski 2.0 report focuses on overhauling core aspects of curriculum and reporting, and proposes a move away from the industrial model of education towards individualisation.
There are now several new gate-keeping measures to test teacher quality introduced by universities in the last two to three years.
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Finding time to read to your children can be hard, but there are several ways you can make sure your child gets the most out of time for reading aloud.
Therapy dogs can decrease anxiety and stress in students, while getting them more excited about classroom activities.
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Research shows therapy dogs can be beneficial for students in many ways including reducing stress and anxiety, and helping students feel more excited about participating in classroom activities.
Encourage children to think about where they are in space: if they’re looking at a map of the zoo, ask them where they are in relation to the kangaroos or lions.
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Early STEM skills are as important as early literacy skills. Parents can help their preschoolers develop STEM skills by working these simple techniques into everyday activities.
Professor, Canada Research Chair in Determinants of Child Development, Owerko Centre at the Alberta Children’s Hospital Research Institute, University of Calgary