Brenda Geier K-12 Reading Specialist - The research tells us that with the support of parents, care providers, and early childhood educators, as well as exposure to a literacy-rich environment, children progress from emergent to conventional reading. By interacting through reading aloud and conversation, children are exposed to learning early. It is very important to read aloud to children and provide possibilities for them to talk about the stories that they hear. As Anderson, Hiebert, Scott, and Wilkinson (1985) state, "The single most important activity for building the knowledge required for eventual success in reading is reading aloud to children, particularly during the preschool years". It helps them develop oral language, intellectual skills, and concepts of print and phonemic aware... [Read more]

As a homeschooler one of the most very important tasks for you to pull off in your child at an early age is getting them thinking about and developing great reading habits. At an early age learning to recognize letters, the sounds they make and words they eventually form should be an activity and not a structured assignment. An excellent reading activity for kindergarten aged children, for instance is to read to ... [Read more]

Home schooling is legal in all 50 states, and day after day, more parents decide to homeschool their kids rather than letting them attend public schools. This may be due to countless reasons, nevertheless, home schooling isn’t any lesser than formal educa... [Read more]

How do you successfully determine what method of teaching, what lessons to teach and at what speed? Having decided to educate your children at home for the purpose of giving your kids the needed attention they require, do you still follow the school's standards of what subjects to cover and take up and when? Has keeping with the rules and standards of the school meant hurrying your kids through anything by driving them to memorizing certain areas of the subject matter so to prog... [Read more]

Download Our Free eBook!