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Learning to Play Again – Adding Imagination to your Homeschooling
Pretend play, it seems, is under attack from a fast-paced digital world. Maybe it’s time to start changing that. Prior to the electronic invasion of our homes, it was not uncommon to encounter a wide variety of play activities. Building … Continue reading
A Phonics Comeback in Ohio
It appears that another knowledgeable individual is waving the banner for phonics in Ohio: Literacy reforms coming to Ohio classrooms. by Aaron Churchill in the Akron Beacon-Journal Significant changes in reading curriculum and instruction are coming to Ohio elementary schools … Continue reading
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Tagged education, education reform, Homeschooling, learning, phonics, Phonics or Whole Language??, reading, school curricula, schools, systematic phonics, teaching reading, Teaching Reading in the Homeschool, you can teach your kids to read at home
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The Savant who Knew his Mother’s Love (part 3/3)
(continued from The Savant Who Knew his Mother’ Love, part 2) May’s Miracle Then, in his sixteenth year, something May calls “The Miracle” occurred. The family had been in bed for hours. About 3:00 a.m. May awoke and thought she … Continue reading
The Savant who Knew His Mother’s Love (part 2/3)
continued from: The Savant who Knew his Mother’s Love (part 1/3) Leslie Lemke in concert … Shipped Out to America Skipping ahead to adulthood, May became engaged to a soldier, following the urging of her mother. He was a man that … Continue reading
The Savant who Knew His Mother’s Love (part 1/3)
Joe and I are different from other people. We just accept things when God puts them before us. It’s like accepting what you have to do in life. Things come at you, and you don’t say, “Am I going … Continue reading
The Science of Reading – Why we Should Read to our Children
Build Vocabularies: WORDS ARE FOR THINKING! When you have an idea, do you have enough words to express it? If you need a new word, where do you find it? If you answered that you “just know it from memory,” … Continue reading
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Tagged education, Homeschooling, How to Teach Reading, phonemic awareness, phonics, Phonics or Whole Language??, reading, Samuel Blumenfeld, science of reading, systematic phonics, teaching Alpha-Phonics, teaching reading, Teaching Reading in the Homeschool, you can teach your kids to read at home
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The Special Reading Group & Phonics Cards for Christmas?
In 1955 Rudolf Flesch published his book, “Why Johnny Can’t Read”. He blamed the reading programs of the day. He explained that English is an alphabetic language, and that in order to learn to read efficiently students must learn to … Continue reading
Posted in education, education reform, homeschooling, Phonics, Reading, Reviews of Alpha-Phonics, schools, teaching, tutoring
Tagged Alpha-Phonics, Anna Gillingham, Homeschooling, How to Teach Reading, phonemic awareness, phonics, Phonics or Whole Language??, reading, Samuel Blumenfeld, systematic phonics, teaching reading, Teaching Reading in the Homeschool, you can teach your kids to read at home
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Illuminating the Brain and Watching it Read
Up to the year 1870 there was no physiology of the [brain] hemispheres. They seemed to be out of reach of the physiologist. In that year the common physiological methods of stimulation and extirpation were first applied to them. Ivan … Continue reading
Bringing up girls: Biology and behavior
Gender differences, pt. 2 (girls) DR MICHAEL NAGEL Whether you have a boy or a girl you may have wondered what science can tell you about the role of the brain in shaping your child’s behaviour. In this two-part … Continue reading
Posted in education, father daughter relationships, homeschooling, Phonics, raising girls, Reading, teaching, teaching girls, tutoring
Tagged Homeschooling, Sugar and Spice and All things Nics, systematic phonics, teaching reading, Teaching Reading in the Homeschool, Why Johnny Can't Read, you can teach your kids to read at home
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Why boys wrestle, play fight and fidget
Gender differences, pt. 1 (boys) DR MICHAEL NAGEL Whether you have a boy or a girl you may have wondered what science can tell you about the role of the brain in shaping your child’s behaviour. In this two-part series … Continue reading
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