Homework: 14 practical ways to help kids help themselves (without the wailing or gnashing of teeth)
Many parents of primary school-aged kids – me included – are in two minds about homework. It can go either way: At its best, homework…
How do babies and toddlers choose their first words?
As a speech pathologist, I’m probably a bit biased. But watching a typical child’s language and speech sound systems blossom is – truly – a…
Back-to-school study skill: 3 steps to remember any 10 things in order
Do you struggle to remember things in tests or in life? Working smarter, not harder, is the key to doing well at school and in…
Free resources to help our preschoolers and primary school-age kids to read
To help our kids to read, we need good tools to put independent, peer-reviewed research into practice. Decades of evidence-building tells us that kids need phonological awareness, vocabulary, synthetic phonics, comprehension and fluency skills…
10 great words to teach young high-schoolers (and why) – with brilliant free resources!
Welcome to 2018, dear readers! Over the last years, we’ve published hundreds of free articles, and ebooks summarising some of the latest research about speech, language,…
(L145) Subject-Verb-Object-Adverbial Phrase (SVOA) Sentence Builders