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Category Archives: English
How can I make sure my child is reading ready for school?
Parents often ask the team at Better Tuition how they can make sure their young child is ready for school? The first thing to say is that not all children are ready for reading Heidegger’s Being and Time by the time they … Continue reading
Posted in Early Years, English, Key Stage 1, Top tips
Tagged Nursery, pre-school, reading, Reception
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Top Ten Ways to Improve Reading
1. Read 2. Read 3. Read 4. Read 5. Read 6. Read 7. Read 8. Read 9. Read 10. Read There are other ways to improve reading: to find out more, contact the experts at Better Tuition to book your … Continue reading
Posted in English, Top tips
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The Top 5 New Year’s Resolutions to make about your child’s education
As we vacuum away the last of the mince pie crumbs and recycle our now forlorn Christmas trees, it’s time to take control of 2012. Many of us like to make New Year’s resolutions. Here are our top five suggestions … Continue reading
Posted in English, Top tips, Uncategorized
Tagged 2012, homework, maths, reading, routine
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Happy New Year and a review of 2011 at Better Tuition (Part one)
The Better Tuition team would like to wish everyone a very Happy New Year. Now seems to be a good time to look over the events of the past 12 months, and as you all know, there have been quite … Continue reading
21st December: spread some happiness around the world (and have fun too)!
Your Better Tuition Advent challenge today is to feed hungry people from developing countries. Return to our advent calendar here, and find out more about Urmston’s tuition centre here. Freerice.com gives quiz questions where every correct answer donates 20 grains of rice … Continue reading
Posted in Advent Calendar, English, Entrance Exams, Uncategorized
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2nd December: Rudolph the Read Knows Rain, Dear!
Spot the spelling errors in our Christmas Spelling Challenge: can you identify and correct the misspellings in these well known Christmas songs and phrases? There are 13 incorrectly used words. Return to our Advent Calendar or find out more about … Continue reading
16th December: Jingle Bells! Can You Spell?
It’s Day 16 and we have a little spelling challenge for you today. We hope you enjoy it. Try our fun, festive spelling test: no cheating with the dictionary! You have 30 seconds to answer each question. Return to our … Continue reading
Struggling with literacy or numeracy? These resources are the toolkit you need.
We have had lots of lovely feedback from parents this week – suddenly it seems like everyone in Urmston and Stretford is recommending the Better Tuition Centre! We know that one of the features parents really love about our centre … Continue reading
Posted in English, Key Stage 1, Maths, Top tips
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Toolkit for improving extended writing
One of the questions parents most frequently ask at the Better Tuition Centre is: how can my child improve his/ her extended writing? Indeed we are asked so often that we have come up with a little toolkit for improving … Continue reading
Posted in English, News and Updates, Top tips, Uncategorized
Tagged national curriculum levels, toolkit, writing
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Decoding the Year 1 phonics screening check
The Year 1 phonics screening check (not test!) will be run by all schools beginning in June of 2012 until such times as decoding phonics is no longer fashionable at the Department for Education. The introduction of the screening … Continue reading
Posted in English, Key Stage 1, News and Updates, Top tips, Uncategorized
Tagged assessment, Key Stage 1, phonics, screening check, Year 1
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