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Why is colouring-in beneficial for pre-schoolers?

Some may think that colouring-in activities are only used to occupy young learners and keep them busy. Far from it!  Amongst the many benefits of colouring in, the following are included: It makes little hands stronger! We don’t realise how many muscles we use in hand-writing. Colouring in exercises hand muscles, and helps young learners…

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A teacher talks about the Sunrise Readers

Dilys Green is a practical expert in the field of teaching reading. Over the past thirty years, she has successfully launched hundreds of young learners into the exciting universe of reading competency. In this video, she talks about the Sunrise Readers. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcJhi1WJ6f0 Click on the link above to hear what Dilys has to say about…

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Teaching Phonics – how to sound the letters

This video clip demonstrates how to pronounce the letter sounds, with special reference to vowel sounds which differ from language to language. This can cause confusion and mispronunciation when reading in English. Simply explained, phonics is the teaching of letter sounds. Each of the 26 letters in the alphabet has a name and a sound.…

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What are the Sunrise Readers?

The Sunrise Readers are a reading scheme. They are a delightful series of carefully structured reading books to be used in the teaching of reading in the first years of a child’s education in English. The vocabulary accumulates gradually, and the children are soon reading lively, interesting stories that are written and selected for their…

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