Written by Shawna Wingert of Different by Design Learning It's June. The end of another school year. The beginning of summer. For my family, it means transitioning to a "summer learning plan." At least that's what it means for us this year. The truth is, in past years, summer was a less …
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How therapy dogs helped me relax about reading
Written by Kara S. Anderson "It tastes just like cheesecake,” she said laughing. She was, of course, referring to dog frosting – the dog frosting she had whipped up from scratch to decorate her homemade banana pupcakes. Frosting them was the last step in a process that had taken most of the …
What can you do with a basket of sight words?
Written by Kara Fleck It all began with a list of sight words and an art class basket. A few months ago I was perusing our second grade curriculum and came across a list of sight words for second graders. Most of them I knew that my daughter recognized, but there were some that were not a …
3 kids, 3 journeys to reading
Jamie C. Martin, editor of Simple Homeschool, also blogs about motherhood at Steady Mom Learning to read. It's a big deal, isn't it? I know it often feels HUGE to us as homeschooling parents. It's kind of the first thing we don't want to mess up, ya know? But in our eagerness to prove …
Let them read!
Written by contributor Jena Borah of Yarns of the Heart Did you know the best way to help your kids become better readers is to let them read what they want? Research supports it, my reading professors echoed it, and in fact, The Illinois Reading Council Journal published two articles on the …