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Teach older preschoolers to build their own stories: Nine research-based tips
Interactive reading is and remains by far the most important language-stimulating activity in kindergarten. However, older toddlers do not only have to listen to stories, but can also learn to build stories themselves. You will undoubtedly …
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Turn your Talking Pictures activity into a MORE-language moment: Preschool-wise
In the Taalrijk Kansrijk project, several teacher trainers from PXL-education, together with nursery school teachers and parents, developed narrative discussion boards on broad topics that can relate to various classroom themes. Mik and Ömer …
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A warm teacher-child relationship as the basis for a powerful language learning environment: Preschool-wise
With her bachelor's internship in sight, student Marie Claes focused intensively for two weeks on setting up a language program based on the results of the KOALA screening in her internship class.
She started from the following research question: "How …
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The power of working together with all parents on the language development of their children: Kindergarten
How can we support parents to enter into rich linguistic interactions with their children, in the home language, in order to promote their child's school language skills?
Read in this article by Kleutergewijs how a Brussels school and Ligo Brusseleer …
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Koala keys as a team enhancer, that's possible: Kindergarten
In Flanders, children will take a koala test in the third kindergarten from the 2021-2022 school year. The aim of the koala test is to determine any language delay so that these children can receive extra language support or intensive guidance. …
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Read and let read: Work more efficiently on reading comprehension
Read and let read is a web page with cards and videos that can help teachers to work on reading comprehension in an effective way. The cards bundle concrete tools, tips and tricks on reading comprehension for teachers in primary education. …
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Gearboxes: What do you put in it?
Fifty ideas to fill small boxes with materials that the students can use independently during corner work or when they finish something faster.
There are boxes with construction materials, creative boxes, boxes for motor skills, ...
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Chicken or egg?: Towards strong language education in primary school
Language is a vicious vehicle. We need language to teach the subject matter at school
can understand and learn and refine that language at the same school.
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Use of Osmo on an iPad
Last year we bought the Osmobundel at school. The target group was mainly strong preschoolers and first-grade pupils who need a challenge. Here you can read my experiences and tips ...
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Who has a çekic? On embracing multilingualism in school
In this article about multilingualism you will get an answer to the following questions:
- Why language-sensitizing teaching?
- Does language awareness work?
- How to teach language awareness?
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Put on your shoes lingual: Language Proficiency Education in BaO
During this two-day session on the language (September 2007) proposed two schools for inspiring examples of how one can build language skills in students. Children have had a sufficient language skills to the education offered to be: they have to …
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Language Courses Policies and foreign language
In this video you will hear teachers or directors from four schools.
The municipal school De Bosmier from Balen tells how they do speech sensitization through an exchange project with six European countries. The French language initiative is also …
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