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Teach older preschoolers to build their own stories: Nine research-based tips
Interactive reading is and remains by far the most important language-stimulating activity in kindergarten. However, older toddlers do not only have to listen to stories, but can also learn to build stories themselves. You will undoubtedly …
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A warm teacher-child relationship as the basis for a powerful language learning environment: Preschool-wise
With her bachelor's internship in sight, student Marie Claes focused intensively for two weeks on setting up a language program based on the results of the KOALA screening in her internship class.
She started from the following research question: "How …
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The power of working together with all parents on the language development of their children: Kindergarten
How can we support parents to enter into rich linguistic interactions with their children, in the home language, in order to promote their child's school language skills?
Read in this article by Kleutergewijs how a Brussels school and Ligo Brusseleer …
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Extracurricular speech therapist...therapist or co-teacher?
In which phase of the care continuum can an extracurricular speech therapist be involved? How?
And how can the collaboration between school and speech therapist be mapped?
Discover info and tools on the site.
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Look over the wall: The reading policy at the school of kindergarten teacher Elif - Kindergarten
March 1… the start of the youth book month. Time to dive into the books and get your book pearls! By focusing strongly on storytelling, reading aloud in class and a stimulating book corner, you already lay a strong foundation for good reading. …
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Effective Handwriting Education: Reappraisal of the Pen
An article by Freek Turlings and Erik Meester about handwriting education.
Scientific research shows the importance of handwriting for reading, spelling and memorization. What can you do to easily improve your handwriting lessons?
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Building blocks for effective language programmes: Practical guide for language support in nursery, primary and secondary education
The manual is a practical guideline for researching language integration processes. It provides a practical guide to language support.
This guide describes six building blocks that help you stimulate language development and support students …
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Keys to effective reading comprehension
An inspiration bundle for a contemporary didactics for reading comprehension in primary education.
In the bundle you will find a summary of the five didactic keys:
- functionality,
- reading motivation,
- transfers,
- Interaction,
- strategy …
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Increase reading motivation and reading results with peer tutoring
An extensive syllabus explaining how peer tutoring works during the reading lessons.
What is peer tutoring? How do you get started? How do you organize it? When can you use it?
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Working with patterns in kindergarten: Kindergarten
Is working with patterns one of your favorite assignments in kindergarten? A team of American researchers recently demonstrated that children in kindergarten who have more insight into patterns at the end of primary school are also better at …
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Mathivate: Inspiration guide motivated mathematical sport activities
This sporty inspiration guide - Marieke De Batselier's bachelor's thesis - will stimulate social and motor skills, promote language development (English vocabulary) and refine math skills. The exercises are explained in the …
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Formative evaluation in language education: Development toolbox a.d.h.v. participatory research
Presentation of a session on the School-heart research study day of 14 February 2019.
Evaluation theme / Inside class differentiation
In this session, participants are introduced to how participatory action research was conducted in the context of …
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