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"Failure can be very motivating if it's looked on as a chance to improve next time," says Elizabeth Hartley Brewer. "We don't want our ... |
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"Get your child to feel a sense of achievement for working hard, for making progress, for being an active member of a team, or purely [...] Elizabeth Hartley Brewer. And encourage her to benchmark herself against her own past performance, not the performance of others.
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"Tackle problem areas one step at a time," advises Elizabeth Hartley Brewer. "Discuss which subject she'd like to focus on, and get [...] for improving in that subject next term. The following term she can choose something else. Appreciate progress, not perfection."
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A breath is a noun, what you take. Breathe is a verb, the action you do when taking a breath. ... |
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A gel, roller ball or fountain pen reduces the strain in the wrists/fingers as the ink flows more ... |
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A good time for homework is after a short break when your child returns from school, get it out of the way early, leaving the rest of ... |
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A long word is a word that has more than one syllable (i.e., multisyllabic). A syllable is a word or part of a word that is spoken ... |
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A minimum of 11 cubic metres working space per child is the ... |
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A mother of a six year old asthmatic child reports that a couple of drops of eucalyptus oil on either side of their pillow at night ... |
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A simile is a figure of speech in which two quite unlike things are compared. A simile is often introduced by like or as. Examples are [...] but he's really just an old pussycat." The statement "that man is a fox" is a metaphor; but "that man is like a fox" is a simile.
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A whole number followed by hundred, thousand, etc., would be written as, for example, "one hundred," and not hyphenated. In a phrase ... |
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Agree a routine for homework with your child. Life can become a constant 'nag' if you do not start this from the ... |
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Agree with your child that TV, other activities, phone-calls etc. will only be possible after homework is ... |
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Always check that your answer is sensible.
Do a rough estimate and then see if your answer is close.
Does the answer feel about [...] so, first write down all the figures on your calculator, then write the answer, to the correct degree of accuracy, in the answer box.
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Ambiguity may be introduced accidentally, confusing the readers and disrupting the flow of reading. If a sentence or paragraph jars [...] It is particularly difficult to spot your own ambiguities, since authors tend to see what they mean rather than what they say. |
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Bi- means "two," so bimonthly means "happening every two months" — but it also means "happening twice a month." Another word for the ... |
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Breaking words down into sounds (Syllables) can help to improve your spelling.
E.g: 'valentine' = 'val - en - ... |
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Breathing deeply could be the single most effective way to stay calm. Everyone breathes, but a lot of us breathe the wrong ... |
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Do not try to do too much work each day. If you overdo it you won't take in the facts you're ... |
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Do revision constantly. Use your homework file as your revision ... |
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Don't rely on electronic spellcheckers! They can miss errors—especially when you have used the wrong word but spelled it correctly. [...] might need some new shoes for gym," Harry told our Aunt Ann.
"Eye mite knead sum knew shoos four Jim," Hairy tolled hour Ant an.
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Exercise stimulates the cerebellum part of the brain, which is responsible for ... |
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Figure out what time of day you can concentrate best, and what works into your schedule. Use that time every day to study. Try to make ... |
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Find a quiet place, away from distractions, with ample room to work. Once you've found it, study at the same place every time. It [...] table, or the local library. Laying down on your bed or sprawled across the living room rug are generally not good study places.
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Find out where you make silly errors and plan techniques for helping you to prevent and correct ... |
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Forming an acronym is a good strategy to use to remember information in any order that can be remembered. An acronym is a word that is ... |
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Get some exercise. It's a fantastic stress buster. Go running, skateboarding, play a sport, or just take a walk around the block. You [...] yourself that everything is going to turn out alright. Stand up straight and smile, you will feel a bit better straight away.
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Get to know Dictionary.com -Vocabulary is the hardest to cram for in the few months before the test. So, students should do whatever [...] thousand days until the SAT and even if they remember one in ten of the words, that's a hundred SAT words added from this step alone! |
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Grammar essentials have the biggest impact on our students' work and it's these we should be concentrating upon. They are (in order of [...] complex
Connectives
Paragraph organisation
Tense
Direct / indirect speech
Descriptive detail (modification)
Topic sentences
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Have you heard the expression "When two vowels go walking, the first one does the talking?" This means that when there are two vowels [...] why it's team, not taem; coat, not caot; and wait, not wiat. Remembering this rule will help you to put vowels in the right order.
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Having good class notes will help you to be better prepared for ... |
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He said/she said. Use those only when necessary to establish who's speaking. They distract the reader, pulling him out of the story ... |
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Here's another familiar spelling rule: "Silent e helps a vowel say its name." This means that when a word ends with a vowel followed ... |
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Homework is not just that which is assigned every night. A regular review of your notes should be a part of your homework plan. This ... |
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If the word is followed by a clause, a group of words with both a subject and a verb, use as: He liked the restaurant, as any gourmet ... |
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If you are able (many readers are not), keep an eye out for missing periods, weird commas, closing quotes, opening quotes, ... |
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If you are dreading a particular assignment, or know it requires a lot of extra effort, do it first. Your brain will be fresh. ... |
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If you are running out of time. Divide any time that's left equally between questions. It's easier to get marks for starting a [...] get you more marks than one which is finished. Leave rough notes for unanswered questions. You might get some marks for the notes.
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If you find that your homework covers work that has not been taught in class, speak to your ... |
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If you find that your homework is taking too long, speak to your ... |
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If your children have problems waking up in winter the junior bodylock is the answer. They wake you up naturally, with a gradual ... |
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If your mind goes blank in an exam just sit back, close your eyes and take a few deep breaths to calm yourself. ... |
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In classes, your teachers will talk about topics that you are studying. The information they provide will be important for you to know ... |
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