Fluency and vocabularyA reliable indicator of fluency, or at least potential fluency, is the number of words you know. You still have to practice speaking, in fact you need to speak a lot in order to speak well. But to do that, to have meaningful conversations, you need a lot of ...
Professionally, by learning a foreign language in kindergarten, the child expands his/her future career horizons. In today’s increasingly globalized world, bilingual and multilingual individuals are in high demand. The child who achieves this fluency naturally and easily at a young age already has ...
Well, I'd naturally think of my relationship with my mother. Whenever I need help, my mother is always there for me. She often tells me that I can be anyone I want, as long as I'm confident of myself. She sees my talent and pushes me to do the best I possibly can. As I was...
The brain-based reading disorder can manifest in different ways, depending on the child’s age and stage, as well as the context of the school and instructional methods being used, says Rebecca Mannis, a learning specialist and founder of Ivy Prep Learning Center in New York. “Fo...
“Sometimes, as students try to address their own dysgraphia, the fluency of writing is impacted so that it looks like [they] are drawing each letter. This can impact a person's ability to finish tests on time, or keep up with the class while taking notes.”Cheri Dotterer, an ...
Additionally, teachers who possess specialized skills, such as fluency in English or experience in international curricula, may also receive higher compensation. Teaching kindergarten in China is a rewarding experience that requires dedication, patience, and creativity. Whether in an international or ...
Phonological awareness is the awareness of words, syllables, and sounds. In kindergarten, for example, a student should be able to clap twice to demonstrate the number of syllables in the word “brother” (bro-ther), and three times for the word “grandmother” (grand-mo-ther). ...
This newcombined grades resourceis built around good questions, drawn from each of the strands in the Kindergarten and Grade 1 curricula. Lessons featuresortingandpatterning,shapeandmeasurementandnumber sense (subitizing, counting, estimating and the operations) in an accessible format for teachers of ...
Your average Kindergarten graduate should be able to read at around ten words per minute. The words might need to be within the child’s “sight word” vocabulary, and definitely should be within their spoken vocabulary.Students from homes where books are read, including being read aloud to ...
While that content changes some as students move from Kindergarten to 12th grade, in general, the kinds of things we ask our 2nd graders to study are similar to what we have our high school seniors study. In classic education (in certain parts of the world anyway), ‘content areas’ were...