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Understand the tricky bits.
Short, practical reads on the ideas children are learning through Glowaly games. Why they are hard, what is actually going on, and what helps at home.
Telling the time
Why do children find it difficult to read analogue time?
Discover the hidden reasoning involved—and simple ways to make clock learning feel more natural.
Read the parent guideTimes tables
Why don’t times tables stick?
Why similar facts fight each other in memory, which part of the table is actually hard, and why the stopwatch can make it worse.
Read the parent guideSpelling
Why is English spelling so hard?
English spelling can be a difficult one for a kid to learn. What silent letters are doing, and why some words cannot be sounded out at all.
Read the parent guideMore guides when a game needs one
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