Spending time as a family is an important part of the holiday season. Spending time reading Christmas picture books together is definitely a favorite pastime. As I began to go through the list of Christmas picture books that we have read over the last few years, I am in awe of the writing and illustrations …
BuddyBooks is an online reading program that aims to improve reading fluency. The program allows the student to read a passage, broken into chunks, where they read a section, and then a section is read to them. This takes the mental load off of the student and keeps the text from feeling as overwhelming. Since the child is reading every other section, they can read at their interest level instead of the reading-skill level.
Have you wondered what the best homeschool spelling curriculum is? What if I told you there was a way of having just one spelling curriculum that would ultimately work for all of your children at their developmental stage? Luckily, during my classroom teaching experience, I worked in two school districts that allowed the classroom teacher to …
Just like so many things in our children’s lives, learning spelling is developmental. Once you know what the developmental levels are, and what level your child is on, you no longer have to worry about if they are behind or right where they need to be. When we have our children, it begins. The constant …
