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A liquid air rechargeable battery One of the biggest problems for renewable energy is storage of power. An English company is building...

Neil Stewart
Oct 20, 20201 min read
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Thoughts on teaching English to younger children.
Primary English teachers have a wider responsibility than just teaching English. We need to think about the education of the whole child....

Neil Stewart
Sep 25, 20202 min read
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Welcome to the English Room
This is where the Native English Teachers, Mr Neil Stewart and Mr Sam Paterson will post activities that we conduct once the students...

Neil Stewart
Sep 7, 20201 min read
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Types of Questions
Literal These ask the readers to find the answers in the text. eg. Who is this? What did he do? How many were there? Interpretative These...

Neil Stewart
Jul 21, 20201 min read
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New Initiatives in Reading.
The EDB directive to ‘read to learn’ fundamentally depends on a ability to read. To further promote the culture of reading I have...

Neil Stewart
Jun 26, 20201 min read
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The History of Reading Theories.
Learners who read more often will get better at reading, and subsequently improve their skills. Not all fast readers are good readers,...

Neil Stewart
Jun 26, 20202 min read
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There's nothing automatic about learning to read.
Learning to read is not an automatic process. Teachers need to use a variety of teaching strategies to help students learn to read. (The...

Neil Stewart
Jun 26, 20201 min read
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Educating your child can be a confusing business especially when it comes to literacy.
There are thousands of theories and courses on the market, thousands of educational gurus - and yet, despite all the information out...

Neil Stewart
Jun 26, 20202 min read
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A Glossary of Reading Terms
Affix: A word element that is placed at the beginning (prefix), in the middle (infix), or at the end (suffix) of the root or word stem....

Neil Stewart
Jun 26, 20205 min read
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Thoughts on the art and science of Teaching
My personal philosophy of teaching is that learners need an academically challenging and yet developmentally appropriate learning context...

Neil Stewart
Jun 26, 20202 min read
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Encouraging Children to Read
In Hong Kong, children often do not learn reading as a specific skill, but rather are expected to grasp the process through a mixture of...

Neil Stewart
Jun 26, 20203 min read
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