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Preparing for Parent Teacher Interviews

Preparing for Parent Teacher Interviews

Parent-teacher interviews are valuable opportunities for teachers to communicate with parents about their child's progress, strengths and areas for improvement. For some tips for teachers to prepare effectively for parent-teacher interviews, and to see how CARS & STARS Online can help parents become more involved in their child’s learning.

For Hawker Brownlow Education

For Hawker Brownlow Education

CARS & STARS Online is a comprehensive reading comprehension program that offers flexibility, interactivity, customisation, and cost-effectiveness for educators. It also provides premier support and professional development at no extra cost. For existing customers, specialised training programs are available to ensure a seamless transition to the online platform. With CARS & STARS Online, educators can provide their students with a high-quality reading comprehension program that prepares them for success in school and beyond.

Written and Verbal Speech

Written and Verbal Speech

Both written and verbal speech are essential components of language across different languages, and each plays a crucial role in communication and human interaction. For some reasons both forms are important, and how CARS & STARS Online can help with both, click the link below.

How Who You Are Changes How You Speak (And Read)

How Who You Are Changes How You Speak (And Read)

A person’s personal history of language, which includes their linguistic experiences, exposure to different languages and language learning background, can significantly impact their present language abilities, including how they speak and comprehend reading. Click the link below to find some ways personal language history can influence the present.

CARS & STARS Online and Special Education

CARS & STARS Online and Special Education

Being a highly skilled, competent reader is a skill that improves every learner’s life. And with CARS & STARS Online, achieving that is within every student’s grasp – even those with special needs – and more easily achievable for their teacher than ever before.

Tongue Twisters and Reading

Tongue Twisters and Reading

A tongue twister is a phrase that is designed to be difficult to articulate properly and can be used as a type of spoken (or sung) word game. Tongue twisters can be a fun and engaging tool to support the development of foundational reading skills and promote a positive attitude towards reading.

Can Riddles Help Creativity?

Can Riddles Help Creativity?

Riddles are questions or statements that offer a puzzle to be solved. They encourage children to think critically, analyse clues and apply logical reasoning to arrive at the answer. This problem-solving aspect of riddles stimulates the brain and helps children develop creative problem-solving skills.

Why Reading Comprehension Can Be Hard for Some to Learn

Why Reading Comprehension Can Be Hard for Some to Learn

Supporting struggling readers often requires a multifaceted approach, including tailored instruction, accommodations, explicit teaching of reading strategies, scaffolding of comprehension skills and addressing underlying difficulties through targeted interventions.

How Cooking Can Improve Reading Skills

How Cooking Can Improve Reading Skills

By engaging in cooking and following recipes, individuals practise critical thinking and problem-solving skills within a practical and enjoyable context. These skills, developed through cooking, can transfer to other reading materials and real-life situations, supporting improved reading comprehension and the ability to analyse, evaluate and solve problems effectively.

Critical Thinking and Creativity While Reading

Critical Thinking and Creativity While Reading

By integrating both critical thinking and creative skills, readers can approach reading with a more comprehensive and imaginative mindset, making connections and discovering insights that might not be apparent with either skill alone.

How Conceptual Learning Helps Reading

How Conceptual Learning Helps Reading

Conceptual learning can significantly aid in learning to read and improving reading comprehension. Conceptual learning helps children develop a solid foundation of knowledge and understanding about various subjects. When children have prior knowledge and familiarity with the concepts related to a text, they can make connections, draw upon their existing knowledge and better comprehend what they read.

Playing Outdoors Can Benefit Reading Skills, Too

Playing Outdoors Can Benefit Reading Skills, Too

Playing outdoors can have several positive effects on children’s reading comprehension skills, through positive impacts relating to vocabulary expansion, contextual learning and critical thinking skills, among others.

CARS & STARS Online Reports Part 2 – STARS Reports

CARS & STARS Online Reports Part 2 – STARS Reports

The CARS & STARS Online program has 3 levels of reports: class reports; individual student reports and the school reports. There are Placement test reports, CARS reports and STARS reports. Learn about the different report types offered in the STARS module of CARS & STARS Online and how they can benefit you.

CARS & STARS Online Reports Part 1 – CARS Reports

CARS & STARS Online Reports Part 1 – CARS Reports

The CARS & STARS Online program has 3 levels of reports: class reports; individual student reports and the school reports. There are Placement test reports, CARS reports and STARS reports. Learn about the different report types offered in the CARS module of CARS & STARS Online and how they can benefit you.

Unlocking Student Growth with Powerful CARS & STARS Online Reports

Unlocking Student Growth with Powerful CARS & STARS Online Reports

Are you a teacher looking for powerful tools to monitor and fuel student growth? Look no further than the CARS & STARS Online reports, designed to equip you with a wealth of invaluable information. With the help of these reports, you can effectively track student progress and propel their academic development. The CARS & STARS Online reports serve as your trusted companion, providing you with key insights that enable you to make informed decisions for each student’s learning journey. Discover the treasure trove of information offered by the CARS & STARS Online reports, unlocking a world of possibilities for enhancing student growth and achievement.

Little Effort for Big Data

Little Effort for Big Data

With CARS & STARS Online, results are more powerful than ever. And they’re more easily collected, displayed and usefully harnessed, all by a process that occurs automatically and instantly, and which requires no direct teacher intervention to complete.

Multiple Choice and Automatic Marking Make CARS & STARS Online a Lifesaver for Teachers

Multiple Choice and Automatic Marking Make CARS & STARS Online a Lifesaver for Teachers

Because most things in CARS & STARS Online are multiple choice, no teacher marking is required. In the CARS module and most of the STARS and FOCUS Reading modules too, students enter their answer into the software for each question, selecting one of four options.

A Completely Digital Experience – If You Want It

A Completely Digital Experience – If You Want It

CARS & STARS Online doesn’t just replace a mountain of printed books; it replaces decades of thinking a certain way about how students interact with learning and how we approach teaching today.

A COMPLETE FAMILY OF PRODUCTS

Discover how CARS & STARS Online’s integrated teaching and learning system gives teachers the insights and instructional tools to differentiate and support student growth.

CARS

CARS

Get the data you need to drive instruction and measure progress.

STARS

STARS

Target instruction on the essential reading comprehension strategies.

FOCUS Reading

FOCUS Reading

Concentrated practice to reinforce essential reading strategies.

WHAT PRINCIPALS, TEACHERS AND PARENTS ARE SAYING

This differentiated program allows students to read texts which are at a level suitable for their current ability and leads to students being more engaged in reading lessons. As a result, they can experience success and improve their reading and comprehension abilities. CARS & STARS Online is an important part of the English program and we are seeing fantastic improvement across all years in students' reading and comprehension abilities.

Linda Samardali
Head of Department from Kinross College

I've found CARS & STARS Online has really helped in improving my children's reading skills. The skills were all clearly presented with a lot of samples and practice opportunities. The student report also gives the parents a clear guide as to which areas need reinforcement and which areas each child is strong in.

Shannon Zhao
Parent from Sydney

I have found CARS & STARS Online very beneficial, especially during our time teaching and learning remotely. The ability to track live what the students are doing was helpful to ensure that they were remaining on task and to provide feedback.

Brent Ritchie
Teacher from Haileybury

Now that I understand how to use the online program and utilise the tools correctly, I am enjoying using CARS & STARS Online. The ability to locate and download the different reports is phenomenal!

Amber Rains
Teacher from Kambala

I am a bit of a technophobe but using CARS & STARS Online has certainly made life easier and the kids have found it easy to navigate.

Jo Oram
Teacher from Prescott College Southern

CARS & STARS Online has become a very useful tool for my staff to implement effective teaching and learning programs. Having a tool that gives timely assessment results, meets students at their level of need and allows them to see exactly what students are working on in real-time is time effective and impacts on future goals.

The detailed assessment data generated by CARS & STARS Online informs the specific direction of their reading and comprehension teaching. Students report they enjoy the tasks and feel a real sense of accomplishment as they work through the lessons and assessments at their own pace.

Craig Brown
Principal from Toongabbie Public School

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