Happy Thanksgiving, everyone! I pray you are able to share today with friends and family and find many things to be grateful for. I'm continuing to share some great homeschool Black Friday sales. Our Biggest Sale of the Year Starts NOW! Their Biggest Sale of the Year … [Read more...]
R.E.A.D. Ready, Eager, Able and Determined to Read curriculum for my daughter
New Product from The Crafty Classroom I just started a new new reading curriculum with my youngest daughter. She already knows her letters and the basic sound of each, so it's time to start some reading lessons. I wasn't wanting to do the full-blown phonics lessons that I always do with my kids … [Read more...]
Get a FREE Polar Bear Printable Pack!
Are you looking for a FUN way to practice reading and spelling with your children over the holidays? Then you’re going to love the Polar Bear Printable Pack! I've downloaded mine. I know my kids will have so much fun with it. :) This full-color Polar Bear Pack from All About Learning Press contains … [Read more...]
How to Teach Spelling to a Child With Dyslexia with All About Spelling
As you may know, one of my children has dyslexia. Reading is a huge struggle for her. But so is spelling. I finally realized that is wasn't just going to "sink in" and I was going to have to find something to help her in this subject. Spelling is one of the easiest subjects for me. I even won … [Read more...]
Review: Memoria Press “First Start Reading”
Are you teaching a student to read? I am now teaching my 7th child! I've used numerous phonics resources in the past, and am now happy to review First Start Reading from Memoria Press. The set includes 5 paperback books: the Teacher Book (322 pages) and consumable Student Books A-D (68-106 pages … [Read more...]
All About Reading Level 2–almost done!
I have shared a few times about how my fourth child is a struggling reader. She's my only one (so far), so I have really had to approach things differently with her. I am so grateful to All About Reading for helping with our journey this year! We have been working through All About … [Read more...]
Review of Talking Shapes i Pad App
Today I'm sharing a review of the company Talking Fingers, Inc. , and specifically the Talking Shapes iPad App. My 3-year-old, 5-year-old and I have been playing around with the Talking Shapes app for the last 6 weeks. This app for i Pad is geared towards children in grades Pre K - K. It is an … [Read more...]
Homeschool Essentials for Teaching Reading
(If you like this post, would you please Pin It? Thanks!) Our final Day of "5 Days of Homeschooling Essentials" has arrived and today I'm sharing a comparison of the resources I use (and have used) to teach reading. This is probably one of the areas that scares new homeschoolers the most. … [Read more...]
Teaching Preschool With Picture Books
http://i91.photobucket.com/albums/k286/genamayo/ReadToPreschoolers.png I'm happy to be guest-posting at Homeschool Encouragement today. Be sure to head over there to see some of my favorite preschool picture books and some great tips for reading to your little ones! --Gena … [Read more...]
All About Reading–Activity Sheets
We have now finished 11 lessons from the wonderful reading curriculum All About Reading . As we move along through it I'm understanding more about what this curriculum is trying to do and why I didn't need to do it with my older three kids. 1. We are at the level in reading (it's … [Read more...]
Collage Friday: All About Reading
Last month I shared how we started using a new reading program called All About Reading with my 8-year-old struggling reader. We have completed 6 lessons now, so I'd like to let you know how it's going! First of all, my daughter and I really like the variety of activities involved in the … [Read more...]
Review of Rock N Learn Reading DVDs: 50% off at Educents!
I received a set of four Rock N Learn reading DVDs to review for the sale which is now going on at Educents. These 4 DVDs are usually $80, but you can get them for $40 for this flash sale. Or, just get two of them for $20--now that's a great deal! The 4 DVDs my kids … [Read more...]
All About Reading–An introduction to our newest curriculum
We just received our newest reading curriculum in the mail: All About Reading! Today's post will give you an introduction to this reading curriculum. In the future I will be doing a number of posts to explain what we're doing and how it's going! My fourth child is 8 and is a … [Read more...]
Review of Alpha-Phonics: A Primer for Beginning Readers
I am happy to share a review today of a great reading curriculum: Alpha-Phonics: A Primer for Beginning Readers by Samuel Blumenfeld. (And read to the end of the post to see how you can win a copy yourself!) The first thing I noticed about Alpha-Phonics was how simple it is--not a lot of pieces … [Read more...]
How do we do Circle Time?
A number of years ago I read about Kendra Fletcher's views on Circle Time. I thought, "This is what I want!" But for years, no matter how hard I tried I could never get all of us organized in the morning to meet together as a family. So, I finally accepted that we would just do it in the … [Read more...]
Pinterest Challenge- Fun Reading/ Phonics Games
Our daily "learn to read" time has been growing boring, so I decided to find some games to spruce things up a bit. Of course, it was easy to go to my Pinterest Learn to Read board to find lots of great ideas. Here are some that we tried this week! Hopscotch Very fun for the kids. … [Read more...]
