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Three cheers to deep reading
Published on 26/09/2019
» Reading complicated texts, such as academic textbooks, can be a chore and few people do so for pleasure.
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Just skimming through?
Published on 26/09/2019
» “Deep reading” is defined as a process whereby readers engage in attentive and thoughtful reading in order to enhance their understanding and enjoyment of a text.
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Getting them to read
Published on 26/09/2019
» In fact, even toddlers who have yet to learn to speak, much less read, can benefit from books this way.
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Raising readers
Published on 26/09/2019
» A love of books needs to be inculcated in children early on and cultivated throughout the years.
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Word wise
Published on 26/09/2019
» Taciturn. Eloquent. Loquacious. You may know what these three words, which are related to habits of speech, mean. Even if you don’t know, despair not. Here is what they mean, in common parlance: “light-lipped,” “well-spoken”, and “long-winded.”
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Words count
Published on 26/09/2019
» The English language contains more than 1 million words. That may seem excessive, especially when you consider that studies have shown that an average native speaker of English knows only around 20,000 words. Even many university-educated speakers know 40,000 — or a mere 4 per cent of all the existing words in English.
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Getting word-smart
Published on 26/09/2019
» Content-based instruction that immerses students in topics that familiarise them with contexts in which unfamiliar words can be used has great advantages for vocabulary building, Hirsch says.
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Let’s start coding
Published on 26/09/2019
» In a world being remade by Information Technology, computer programming should be taught to all students, experts say.
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Learning to unplug
Published on 26/09/2019
» The problem of veritable smartphone addiction among children, teens, and young people is of grave concern to experts and educators alike — or should be. Whole new generations are growing up with their views of the world reshaped by small devices in their hands, often for the worse.
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Addicted to smartphones
Published on 26/09/2019
» Numerous psychologists go so far as to argue that constant distractions on our smartphones are rewiring our brains while long-term smartphone use is “making us dumber.”
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