Tag: reading at home
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Bringing English home – strengthening the school-home connection
Kate Read, co-author of the new Kindergarten series, Show and Tell, offers some practical tips for strengthening the school-home link. We all know that most learning goes on outside the classroom. So it follows that learning English shouldn’t be limited to the classroom. Indeed, learning any language can be enhanced by bringing it into the…
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The importance of reading choices
Choice in reading materials builds engagement and assists students to have a voice in what they want to learn. To ensure choice, teachers need to have a well-organised classroom library of cognitively appropriate print and digital books including many different topics, genres and text types. Book choice must be at each student’s independent reading level…