Another term for effective reading is reading comprehension. Mention the word comprehension to your child and he will probably wretch with disgust? What if I told you that effective reading or comprehension can in fact be a lot of fun? What if you equipped your child with a strategy to understand a text from the beginning of his learning career. It is important to note at this point that strategy is not everything. To find out more about this please refer to the following article by Natalie Wexler, Why We’re Teaching Reading Comprehension In A Way That Doesn’t Work.
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Most parents are very aware that too much screen time for young children isn’t a good thing, but many are…