Around this time of the year, many people are looking back on the past months of 2016 and preparing for 2017. Some make a promise to do acts of self-improvement for the start of the New Year, this is called …
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Around this time of the year, many people are looking back on the past months of 2016 and preparing for 2017. Some make a promise to do acts of self-improvement for the start of the New Year, this is called …
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After-School Enrichment Blog Celebrates Milestone A Grade Ahead, an educational enrichment company, challenges our students to achieve a higher academic standard. As a resource for our families and others, our company’s blog provides tips, news, and advice to parents who …
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While you may or may not want your child to do homework over winter break, you definitely don’t want them to forget everything they learned or worse: forget how to learn. But don’t worry. These 5 tips can help keep …
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As an educational enrichment teacher, and especially as a teacher of English, I am hard-pressed to find anything within the realm of education that excites me more than catching my students getting into a good book. And with the holidays …
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Gifted students are often difficult to identify. A child may be gifted, but may not display his talents because he’s not interested in school. A child may be gifted, but he may be too shy to showcase his talents. A …
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A child’s playtime is an essential part of his or her development. Making painting part of that playtime, or even part of daily learning, is tremendously beneficial. Art and painting can aid in a child’s emotional, mental, social, and physical …
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Over the course of nearly a year now, A Grade Ahead has posted many articles about reading – on it’s importance, resources to help with it, and its advantages (and that’s just to name a few!). So when I sat …
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The person who studies the most for a test sometimes does not receive the highest grade on the test. Surprised? You shouldn’t be – it’s often about how you study rather than how much you study. It’s about using …
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Many people think that if you know how to read, you know how to read out loud. Well, yes and no. Reading out loud has a couple of major differences – like speaking and having an audience (that’s a pretty …
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It may seem like only yesterday you were starting high school, but juniors and seniors are now thinking about college. For juniors, the task is narrowing down the list of possibly schools and thinking about visits. For seniors, the …
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