Positive After School Hours
What does your child like to do in her spare time? Does he like to paint? Or read? Maybe she likes to play video games or practice soccer techniques. How your child fills his after-school hours can impact how he learns in school in both negative and positive ways. Your child’s after school activities can […] […]
Back to School Tip #5
For a Better Start to the School Year While it may still be summer, school will be back in session before you know it! Help your child beat the summer brain drain and start the new school year off right with a few small tweaks to your family’s summer routine and help from Oxford Learning. […] […]
Back to School Tip #2
For a Better Start to the School Year While it may still be summer, school will be back in session before you know it! Help your child beat the summer brain drain and start the new school year off right with a few small tweaks to your family’s summer routine and help from Oxford Learning. […] […]
8 Tips for Better Studying
Get Organized. Avoid last minute cram sessions by using an agenda or calendar. Plan out a study schedule. Working backwards from the test date, allow plenty of time to review all materials. Review with a Pen and Paper. When reading over notes, write down all of the subject headings, subheadings, and bolded words. This will […] […]
Studying Tips By Grade
Early years—Kindergarten Through Grade Two Though there’s not much need for studying during the early years of education, but these are the years that habits and learning behaviors are formed. That’s why it’s important that positive attitudes about learning are developed at a young age; a good attitude toward studying will stay with a student […] […]
Practical Literacy Tips
Practical tips for the everyday world to increase literacy and become a life-long book-lover Introduce books and reading early in life Play games involving letters and sounds Create a habit of reading—make it part of your everyday routine Read the same book together, or read separately, but at the same time Discuss what you are […] […]
Making the Grade
By Angela Marseglia, B.Ed., MA I often receive panicked phone calls at this time of year from parents who are worried that they have missed the boat on getting appropriate help for their child. Now that the winter holidays and March Break are behind us, they can see that the end is closer than they […] […]
Reading Comprehension and the Classroom
After 35 years of working with kids, we know that most of the problems that young students encounter at school can be traced back to their literacy skills, and in particular, reading comprehension. What is Reading Comprehension? Reading comprehension is the ability to read a sentence and understand its meaning. It is the ability to […] […]
Avoid Last Minute Project Deadlines
Q: My daughter’s project deadlines always seem to approach too fast, and we scramble to finish. What tips do you have to help us avoid the last minute scrambles? A: Forgetting projects and assignments or putting them off until the last minute is usually a sign that your daughter is dealing with organizational and/or motivational […] […]
Problems with spelling?
If you have ever held a pen to write a note or put your fingers to a keyboard to send an email, then you have likely spelled a word incorrectly. It’s no surprise, assSpelling is a major stumbling point for people if all ages. But why is that? For starters, English is a notoriously difficult language to […] […]