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Improving children’s verbal memory can improve their ability to follow instructions, and to understand information given to them. To improve this skill, it is advised to provide children with ongoing practice by rehearsing directions/ lists. Below are suggested games that you can do regularly with children: Game 1: Treasure Hunt In this game, you can give the child a ‘treasure list’ which is a...

When children are able to read the first 100 high-frequency words this can help in providing a foundation for reading. The 100 words make up around 50% of written materials. When students are able to read these words, then this can make reading easier and make them feel more confident. The best approach to teaching high frequency words is ‘whole-word’ approach. In this way we are...

School personals are advised to focus on providing the opportunity for students to reflect on events happening, and will happen in the world (e.g. pandemic, war in Ukraine). There are different activities that can be done with students depending on their age and developmental stage to explore and think as a group about what is happening. Here are a few examples: Be open to joy and...

This blog aims to give an introduction on Dynamic Assessment and a reflection on its importance. As psychologists, we are inclined to think of cognitive abilities as numbers and scores. We think of cognition based on a theory of static or fixed cognitive abilities that can be assessed through standardized testing. Dynamic assessment (DA) is a different assessment tool to standardized...

One of the most important aspects of learning is to get the learner engaged in the learning process. The first point is the ‘what are you learning?’ ‘What am I learning?’ many of our children in schools do not know what they are learning. This is not to say that what they are learning has not been shared with them, but it means that despite sharing the information with them, they still...

Writing can be a very difficult and a frustrating task for some children and adolescents. One strategy to help them overcome this frustration isthe POWER strategy. POWER is a mnemonic strategy to encourage students to proceed through the writing task in small steps, and each letter stands for a single step the child or adolescent needs to perform. POWER: P is plan This stage includes:...