Build Your Self Esteem at the dinner table. Family, culture, and the dinner table build self-esteem. Can You Describe Hamburger Frying? So much of who we are, was/is, established around the dinner table with family. Balancing today’s hectic schedules, added to the distance at which many families are separated, often means that only special events may bring […]
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Learn the science behind teaching a child how to read so they can become readers for a lifetime! Enroll in our Nuts About Reading online course Enroll Now I love the fall season. When I was younger, I couldn’t wait to go back to school. The weather got cooler. The winds were brisk. The skies
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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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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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CHOOSING A BOOK WITH THE FIVE FINGER RULE: A SIMPLE METHOD FOR CHOOSING THE RIGHT BOOK FOR YOUR CHILD’S INDEPENDENT READING ABILITY [this method is most appropriate for end of 1st grade up] The easiest way to determine if a book is at an appropriate independent reading level for your child is to use the
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