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A Campbell River school was the first in the province to use a specialized early literacy training program aimed at levelling the academic playing field for disadvantaged children. With help from a Telus Friendly Future Foundation grant, Ripple Rock Elementary partnered up with Innovations for Learning last fall to make learning to read a little easier for its youngest students. The program sees local education assistants use IFL’s proprietary TutorMate software to provide face-to-face, one-on-one tutoring in phonics, sight word acquisition, fluency, and comprehension. According to IFL’s Canadian executive director, Fabrice Grover, this method gives students in need more individualized instruction than the classroom teacher is able to provide. “Every year 100,000 kids in Canada complete Grade 3 not reading...

In this FDD Talk post, you’ll learn the following: Section I – Background information on the Tutoring Club franchise opportunity, including relevant news updates Section II – Estimated initial investment for a Tutoring Club franchise, based on Item 7 of the company’s 2021 FDD Section III – Initial franchise fee, royalty fee, marketing fee, and other fees for a Tutoring Club franchise, based on Items 5 and 6 of the company’s 2021 FDD Section IV – Number of franchised and company-owned Tutoring Club outlets at the start of the year and the end of the year for 2018, 2019, and 2020, based on Item 20 of the company’s 2021 FDD Section V – Presentation and analysis of Tutoring Club’s financial...

If you are looking for a way to improve your students' skills in reading comprehension, attention to detail, vocabulary, synonyms, antonyms, homophones, deductive reasoning, and logic, then analogies are your solution. In Marzano, Pollock, and Pickering's book Classroom Instruction That Works, the authors write about nine instructional strategies that significantly affect student achievement. Similarities and Differences is one of those strategies. When you teach similarities and differences, your students are making comparisons. Analogies are perfect for students making comparisons, analyzing relationships, and thinking. Below you'll find two resources for your classroom or home. The first is a Types of Analogies table with each type of analogy and an example. The second is matching cards you can use in a variety of ways. Click...

Only 37 percent of American 12th-grade students are considered “proficient” or better at reading, according to the 2019 National Assessment of Educational Progress. This finding indicates that the majority of high school seniors have a hard time understanding challenging subject matter. Many of them also struggle with fluency, or the ability to read with speed and accuracy, which leaves them little energy to analyze the text after they have read it. As David and Meredith Liben of Student Achievement Partners wrote in a 2021 synthesis of fluency research, “Fluent reading is generally thought to account for one-quarter to one-half or more of the differences in reading comprehension [of complex text].” If students proceed haltingly through a passage of complex text,...