HeyJaredSchool Shorts
School Shorts is the podcast for busy parents who want to help their children succeed in school. Hosted by Melissa Chan-Green, a journalist and mum of two, this show covers practical tips on reading, writing, spelling, and maths for preschool and early school years.
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Junior Journalists investigate the future of education (opens the original)
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Junior Journalists interview school leaders and their peers about the challenges and opportunities in schools right now. When I was 12 years old, I wrote my first letter to the local paper, the Howick and Pakuranga Times, and interviewed my principal for one of my very first published articles. Now, things have come full circle as I sit down with the paper's current Junior Journalists to uncover the biggest challenges and opportunities inside classrooms today. In this episode, the students and I
Dr Carolyn Strom: How to build a 'reading brain' (opens the original)
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Reading has to be TAUGHT, it's not caught. In this episode, Dr Carolyn Strom explains the importance of building a 'reading brain', and the various areas of the brain that work together to make that happen. The conversation also covers the optimal age for teaching reading, the role of phonemic awareness, and great advice for introducing the foundations for learning to read and write in ways that are fun and interactive. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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