Toowoomba Reading Clinic and Library in Toowoomba, Queensland | Specialty School

Toowoomba Reading Clinic and Library

Locality: Toowoomba, Queensland

Phone: +61 433 844 814

Address: Sinclair Street 4350 Toowoomba, QLD, Australia

Website: http://www.toowoombareadingclinic.com.au

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24.01.2022 If you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing it’s stupid. Molly talks about her experience of dyslexia at school. BBC The Social

22.01.2022 Another one! https://youtu.be/dtjTQ14-yVU

21.01.2022 There has never been a cooler structured literacy video. Ever.

16.01.2022 What a fantastic idea.

15.01.2022 Story Box Library is WONDERFUL and they are offering two months free access. This is nourishing and absolutely guilt-free screen time.

14.01.2022 The emergence of Cognitive Science over the past 50 years has brought game-changing insight to the field of Education. The gap between the two disciplines is gradually being bridged, but there is still a way to go.

14.01.2022 It's OK to keep practising those foundational sound/symbol skills! OVERLEARNING to automaticity is the only path to sustainable progress for dyslexic readers.

13.01.2022 Said no scientist ever.

13.01.2022 This is true- breathe!

12.01.2022 A great visual from Pam Kastner

12.01.2022 I regularly see this in well-meaning classrooms, but its unnecessary and really painful for many kids.

12.01.2022 A very good piece by the SMH. If University Education Faculties open their arms to the offerings of the Psychology and Linguistics Faculties, teacher trainees are gifted access to essential truths and knowledge about our language system and associated cognition, which they require and deserve. A recent study revealed that this access is still currently withheld in up to 90% of initial teacher training courses in Australia. The widespread access to this essential knowledge among frontline education workers would neutralise the relevance of any debate about the in-ness or out-ness of any program or approach. The human cost of ongoing and futile argument, which only serves to delay progress in widespread practice, is unfathomable.

11.01.2022 We love Operation Ouch! More great information for children.

11.01.2022 The wheels are well and truly turning! Fantastic to see.

09.01.2022 The Year One Phonics Check is absolutely necessary to support teachers in identifying struggling students, while there is still a chance to alter their trajectory.

09.01.2022 Great free Brainpop video and activities for talking to children about Coronavirus. https://www.brainpop.com//diseasesinjuriesand/coronavirus/

06.01.2022 Great news for NSW readers.

06.01.2022 Our blog post about the importance of a rich bank of content knowledge for reading comprehension, critical thinking, creative thinking and problem solving. #KnowledgeMatters https://gen-k.com.au/blogs/blog/the-knowledge-movement

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05.01.2022 Guessing as a word attack strategy turns out to be what the world’s poorest adult readers do. Multiple studies have shown this. So why to do so many schools sti...ll insist on encouraging three cueing based strategies (chunky monkeys and floppy dolphins) and discourage decoding (sounding out)? This flat-earth view of teaching reading is not only ineffective, it’s damaging to about 30% of learners. Teachers. Stand up for your learners. Argue the point if you have to. The science has your back. See more

05.01.2022 These guys are just the best

04.01.2022 Feeling estranged from your own child is painful. Research indicates the most important predictor of a childs emotional and psychological stability is the clo...seness of the parent/child relationship. If your child is not opening up when they are upset, the relationship may not be as close as it needs to be. There are two habits that parents routinely engage in that shut down communication and drive a child away: negating feelings and mistaking sympathy for empathy. In many cases, honoring your childs feelings is all they need to feel better. Simply knowing their parent understands allows them to feel secure and forge ahead. Some sympathetic statements, on the other hand, disrupt any chance of emotional attunement, instead of helping them work through their difficult feelings. Dr. Erin Leonard discusses how to be a parent your child wants to confide in on the Gottman Relationship Blog: https://bit.ly/2DHZe8u

04.01.2022 I wish people understood how hard my kids work every day just to keep up. -Kristin Kane

03.01.2022 A brilliant resource for dyslexic readers and families. Bravo.