Teaching Myth: Repetition and Drill Dull Creativity
Repetition and drill have become swear words in education. Today this form of learning is considered to be out of style, ghastly boring and even mindless. Drill-and-practice, teachers are told, produces only rote memorization and dulls creativity. “Having to spend long periods of time on repetitive tasks is a sign that learning is not taking place...
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Home Test to Identify Reading Problems
Imagine not being able to read. Your academic career would not venture further than high school, seriously hampering your chances of ever working your way up in the world. You could never apply for a job without assistance, being incapable of filling in an application form...
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Preventing the Three D’s: Preparing Your Child for the Three R’s
When children are unable to master the three R's, they become prone to the three D's — dyslexia, dysgraphia and dyscalculia. What can parents do to prepare their children for the three R's and prevent the three D's?
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Learning Disabilities Clarified: Learning is a Skill
The subject of this discussion, that learning is a skill, is apparently one of those ideas that are generally regarded as self-evident. Most people, however, do not seem to realise the implications involved.
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Help for Children with Learning Difficulties
In modern Western society mastery of basic academic skills — reading, writing and arithmetic — is a necessary prerequisite for success in both school and employment settings and society at large. However, due to learning difficulties, the futures of many children are put in jeopardy.
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Why Phonics Instruction Sometimes Fails
Because of the complexity of written English, more than a century of debate has occurred over whether English phonics should or should not be used in teaching beginning reading...
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Is That a b or a d? Why Learners Reverse Letters or Words
When learning to read, children may mistake certain letters for other similar ones, especially those that can be reversed or appear the same when seen in a mirror. The child may read “dog” as “bog” or look at the written word “was” and read it as “saw”. These sorts of errors are called “reversals” or “mirror writing,” and while some children “outgrow” this problem, others don’t.
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Overcoming Learning Failure
Our research has consistently shown that if children do not learn to understand language, to read and write, to calculate and reason mathematically, to solve problems, and to communicate their ideas and perspectives, their opportunities for a fulfilling and rewarding life are seriously compromised.
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How Many Words Per Minute Should My Child Be Reading?
If you are wondering how many words per minute your child should be reading, do a one-minute reading assessment. Count the total words read minus the errors made = words correct per minute....
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Help Your Child Become an ‘Academic Olympian’
As the 2016 Olympic Games came to an end, we can reflect on the achievements, camaraderie and celebration of sport on the global stage. In addition to the great successes, the Edublox reading, maths and learning clinic highlights important lessons that can be learned from the Olympic athletes, which is applicable to a child’s academic and sporting performance.
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