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Every practice in the library, in one list. Narrow it by how long you have, who it is written for, and where you are right now.
Plenty of children read the equals sign as put the answer here. Write it the other way round sometimes, eight equals three plus five, so they meet the idea that both sides are simply the same amount.
Move the sign about. Leave the gap in the middle, four plus something equals two plus five, and watch what the child does with it. If they add…
The word one does several jobs at once: a digit, a number, a single object, a whole set. A child who has not sorted those out will put figures in the wrong columns and later read a third as a number instead of a part of something.
When digits land in the wrong place, check whether the child knows what is being counted before calling it carelessness. Say the unit out loud: one…
A child who talks well, listens well and seems bright will have their reading failure read as laziness. The strengths are exactly what makes the blame stick.
Strong spoken language, decent attention and an easy manner give an impression of capability that nobody can square with work coming back unfinished.…
When the usual route into reading or arithmetic does not form, children build another one, and it nearly always runs through memory. It works for years, and it costs far more effort than anyone watching realises.
This is the bright child who is somehow always tired, always slow with written work, quietly memorising what everyone else is working out. The route…
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