What is it about teaching reading that arouses such passions in both parents and teachers? Reading effectively is no less a vital skill than crossing the road safely, but we have more children who can cross the road than can read effectively. Reading is difficult, it is a hard skill to master – if it […]
A while ago I was watching an educational documentary on elephants. The expert being interviewed was talking about the old adage, “An elephant never forgets.” Did you know that is actually true? And here I thought that that was just one of my mom’s ways of reminding me that I needed to work a little […]
How many of us have to really think about what some of the washing instructions symbols mean? I know the hand wash only and the hang to dry but after that I get a little rusty. Perhaps I have spent too much time in hot water and then left myself “hang to dry”. The Denim […]
From K to three you learn to read, from grade four and for the rest of your life you read to learn. What if you miss the window? Most of our school systems are set up in a certain way. They assume that by the time a child reaches grade four, he or she will […]
The advent of the Internet, in some respects, made the job of parenting a little harder. We want our children to experience the vast wealth of knowledge available on the Internet and communicate with their friends online. Besides, it frees up the telephone. You remember the telephone, don’t you? The thing that rings right around […]
The advent of the Internet, in some respects, made the job of parenting a little harder. We want our children to experience the vast wealth of knowledge available on the Internet and communicate with their friends online. Besides, it frees up the telephone. You remember the telephone, don’t you? The thing that rings right around […]
“Only the educated are free.” Epictetus 55 AD – 135 AD Did you know that there are Justice Departments in North America that predict the future need of prison space based on grade three reading scores? EESH! If that was the case I should be sitting in Alcatraz by now! When I was in Grade […]
Everyone has the same 1440 minutes in a day to get things accomplished. So why is it that some individuals seem to get much more done in a day than others? The answer is really quite simple: Some individuals are more disciplined in their approach to time thus allowing them to be far more effective […]
We live in a knowledge based economy and literacy skills are our basic currency. That fact alone should make parents sit up and take notice. We live in times where job availability is based on what you know, how fast you can learn new skills and the knowledge train is picking up speed. What are […]
Summer is unofficially here and that means it’s time (at least for some of us) to consider what we want to read over the next few months. To help with some suggestions, Scholastic, a global children’s publishing, education and media company, is conducting an ongoing on-line survey on its www.YouAreWhatYouRead.com Web site. With some 15,000 […]
