The new year is underway and your high school age student can do a few things differently to make all the difference down the track:
1. Fill in the school diary with Term Weeks. In NSW, 2011 Term weeks are all 10 weeks. Your school may have something a little different so check it out and label each view page T1W1, T1W2 etc.. 
 
2. For each assignment or assessment, make a note not only of its due date, but key dates to do activity on that
 assignment or assessment task. You do not want to begin ...
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 Is Reading a Drag?
A reason why reading is perceived as "boring" may be more to the issue that children find either the texts attempted too hard or unappealing or both. I have a few suggestions below, many you would do naturally as part of your daily dialogue and relationship withyour child, so pick one or more idea you might not do and tweak it a little. From an educators perspective it is pretty straight forward because of our school like expectations, a student can expect to get 'drilled' ...
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Working through the myriad of link options one can take when constructing an effective online presence it would be reasonable to take the view that the procedure can be fairly quick process for the initiated or , for the new web creator, both daunting and  hugely hugely time consuming. Finally I am coming out the other side so am feeling confident!

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