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Early Reading Play School, Pty. Ltd. ABN 78 076 952 184 Chandlers Hill, SAMail
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What
you should know about the
Well,
it has developed a unique program that :
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responds
to the recent brain research findings
that early
learning actually increases a
child’s IQ, as well as supporting easy
and pleasurable learning in the years of formal schooling
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enables parents to take a successful initiating
role in their children’s formal learning, by effectively sharing professional teaching skills with parents.
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supports high
academic achievement by a maximum number of students in any given year
level, and enables all children to maximise their personal best.
·
provides
a solution to ‘the literacy problem’ (and
makes reading a natural skill for all children who participate) by ensuring that
all children who do the program start their school years 1) already familiar with their letters, 2)
understanding the alphabetic principle,
3) with phonemic awareness, and 4)
able to code and decode from speech
to print, and from print back to speech. It is estimated that 98% of children can learn to read
effectively using the phonics-based approach adopted by the school.
·
shows
how to tackle the double-edged myth that children only learn well through self-initiated, discovery-based learning,
and that they shouldn’t access any
‘direct content transmission’
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has the potential to allow all children to
match the intellectual performance
levels of children from those cultural environments where children
customarily excel throughout and beyond the school years.
·
could
well prove to be an effective way to give disadvantaged
children a good education
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requires a relatively
small amount of time from both professionals and parents. (Parent-child
classes are held one hour every fortnight, and are backed up by 15-20 mins a day at home.)
If you’d like to find out more, there is a
20pp. profile of the school available on request.
Film footage on the school is available from
several TV current affairs reports.