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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.
This goes the way learning a bicycle went. You could not, then you could but only with all of your attention, then one day you rode without thinking about it. The middle bit is the ugly bit.
In that middle phase the skill works but it costs you everything to use, and it looks clumsy from the outside. That is where most people decide it is…
When a child keeps failing at a task, try reducing what it demands of attention and memory before you increase the practice. Shorter steps, one instruction at a time, the working written down where they can see it.
Attention, holding things in mind and switching between steps all set a ceiling on how much of a lesson gets through. You cannot easily raise that…
Pouring more in does not help while the lid is still on. A child who is exhausted, wound up or not yet settled will keep very little of the lesson, however good the lesson is.
Do the settling first, even when it costs ten minutes of the hour. Sleep, food, movement and a calm start look like the soft part of the day and they…
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…
Looking for a whole subject rather than a single practice? Start from the nine areas.