Category: Articles
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Idioms and Phrases in the 21st Century | How English Changes, Travels and Fits Context
A modern guide to idioms, phrases, slang, register and language change: how expressions evolve, how to judge current usage, how to write natural dialogue and how to avoid forced or dated composition language.
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Understanding Lag Time in Learning | Why Improvement Appears After Practice
Why improvement can appear after practice: a student, parent and teacher guide to learning lag, retrieval, spacing, forgetting, consolidation, transfer, revision timing and durable examination performance.
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A Crash Course in Surviving PSLE
A modern PSLE examination-performance guide: diagnose weak links, use retrieval and spacing, classify errors, repair recurring mistakes, practise under timed conditions, protect sleep and execute calmly on examination day.
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Achilles’ Heel: Troy and the Trojan War
A complete Upper Primary guide to Achilles’ heel, Troy and the Trojan War: idiom origins, Homer’s Iliad, later myth, archaeology, vocabulary, close reading, source judgement and writing.
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How to get your child to read?
A comprehensive parent guide to helping children become willing, capable and independent readers through curiosity, book matching, vocabulary, comprehension, knowledge building, reading ladders and practical family routines.
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In the 21st Century, how important is it to be able to read, write and speak English in Singapore?
English in Singapore matters for education, work, information and communication across communities, while bilingualism and other languages remain important parts of Singapore life.
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Optimism and its role in studying
Optimism in studying works best when paired with strategy, self-efficacy, resilience, feedback and evidence that effort is producing better learning.
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How to improve discipline in a student
Improve student discipline by building self-regulation, study habits, focus, time management, motivation and routines that help learners plan, begin, persist and finish work.
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Famous People-Florence Nightingale, Nursing
Florence Nightingale student guide: explore nursing, public health, statistics, sanitation, hospital reform and how evidence can be used to improve systems.
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Primary 6 to Secondary School | PSLE, DSA-Sec, School Choice and Transition Control
Primary 6 to Secondary School in Singapore: understand PSLE, DSA-Sec, Posting Groups, Full SBB, school choice, results-day decisions and the Secondary 1 transition.