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Exercise Your Child’s Learning Brain and Develop Reading Skills

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Exercise your child’s learning brain and develop reading skills using tracing.  Tracing is great visual perception and motor skill practice which helps build reading skills. Tracing develops the hand-eye coordination needed for reading and writing and the fine motor skills for writing.  Tracing also exercises their ‘eye for detail’ which aids in decoding and comprehension. Let’s […]

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Reading Skills and Benchmarks: Construction Zone Warning for Parents!

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Reading skills are a construction zone of Benchmarks.  Architects and carpenters are builders who use ‘benches’ and ‘blueprints’ for tools as they build their structures.  Teachers and parents are architects and builders also.  Their ‘benches’ and ‘blueprints’ just look different when assessing reading skills. Benchmarks are the benches and blueprints for teachers and parents, as

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Back-to-School and the ‘H’ Word: Homework Tips

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Many kids dread going back-to-school because of the looming amounts of homework.  Parents, do you sigh also? “Schooling should teach kids how to learn, and parents should teach them how to work by establishing work rules and work ethic at home.  Homework provides an opportunity for parents to reinforce and build upon what a child

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Handwriting for Kids

Cursive Handwriting or Manuscript Handwriting for Kids?

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Back-to-School and the debate over whether to teach cursive handwriting or manuscript handwriting style to kids heats up. Handwriting for kids may seem like a dying art for some.  You may even think with all the texting and computers in use there is no need for such archaic techniques?  We aren’t there yet.  Until everyone has

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Reading Skills vs. Brain Skills; Is Seeing Believing?

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Reading Skills vs Brain Skills, is seeing really believing?  The brain loves to play tricks on our minds using our eyes, ears, tongue, lips, and teeth.  These are all parts of the body that are necessary for us to develop reading skills and reading comprehension strategies. Visual discrimination is a brain process that helps our

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Build Self esteem with a positive environment

Build Self-Esteem with a Positive Environment?

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Build self-esteem and create a positive environment through consistency. Consistency is imperative as children grow and learn!  For kids, inconsistency creates anxiety.  Consistency is a key learning tool for your child.  Consistency offers a positive environment for building self-confidence.  Self-confidence builds self-esteem.  When children don’t know what is going to happen next or how their

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Why does reading aloud help my child to read

Why Does Reading Aloud Help my Child Learn to Read?

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“The single most important activity for building the knowledge required for eventual success in reading is reading aloud to children.” — Becoming a Nation of Readers a U.S. Department of Education Report, 1985 Why does reading aloud help my child learn to read? The two main doors for words to get into our brain is

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IQ is Not a Strong Predictor of Reading Comprehension Success

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IQ is not a strong predictor of reading comprehension success. In fact, many research studies have determined that IQ does not directly correlate to reading achievement.  There are two factors that contribute greatly to reading difficulties and each contains multiple ‘signs’ for reading challenges.   The two factors are ‘biological/neurological’ and ‘environmental’.  KEEP IN MIND that

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Building Self Esteem for Students That are Homeschooled

Building Self Esteem for Students That are Homeschooled

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CAN WE GET ALONG and RISE ABOVE THE BUMPS and BULLIES! Building Self Esteem For Students That Are Homeschooled Is self-esteem defined differently for a home schooled child?  The answer is no.  Building self esteem for students who are homeschooled is same as it is with students in a classroom.  We all desire to have  

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