This year marked a new school adventure for us. I applied as a teacher at our local Christian school and they offered me a job the...

Summer offers parents a unique opportunity to provide educational growth or setbacks. In my research, most parents have never even heard...

Consider the similarities between reading and math skills to exercise. What happens when you stop for a considerable amount of time? Those g

I read Elizabeth Bartholet’s attack of homeschooling on Harvard Magazines website, a day after I began writing a four-part blog series...

As parents, we are ALL in a unique position to offer our students the very best education possible. Parents are primarily responsible for

Sight words are the words that a reader should identify by sight. High-Frequency words are the words that appear most often in literature.

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One of my clients shared Cincinnati Zoo's Home Safari daily Facebook LIVE event with me. My children LOVE it. Due to the fact that I'm...

Think about how you learn a new word and apply those same principles to your instruction. That is one way I think about instruction, the...

I created a video about this topic on IGTV as well (you can watch it by clicking here) and I basically took said there and wrote it here....

I'm going to approach this post as a Q&A session while giving the tools of my writer's (homeschool and tutoring students) favorite...

When it comes to little minds we are to build a solid foundation in reading and writing. That is our primary goal. Otherwise, the...