A couple of months ago we had a fantastic review written for our Basic and Advanced Phonics Cards and for our Phonics Game Cards. It was written by teacher and Reading Specialist, Valerie Schuetta. The website in which the review was written, www.homeschoolnewslink.com, can be used by homeschooling parents, as well as teachers, educators and administrators as a resource to find supplementary material for
Is English Difficult to Learn? Not necessarily. The correct tools can make learning English much easier for people. Additionally, having the right tools and the right approach to learning English can help young children learn to read much more quickly and easily. Some languages are considered more difficult to learn than others. The reasons for this can vary depending on the language. The
Several months ago, we wrote a blog post about how to prepare a child for reading. (See blog post of March 19, 2015, https://www.successreading.org/prepare_your_child_for_reading/.) While this blog post had some great tips for parents, we realized that more was needed. There are steps that parents can take well before a child is ready to start reading, which can help prepare that child for the
From my years of teaching and tutoring, I have come to appreciate five special letters of our alphabet – the vowels (a, e, i, o, u and sometimes y). These letters and the sounds they make are the foundation of every word in the English language. In fact, if you try to find a word that doesn’t have a vowel in it, I bet
Below is a list of tips I have found to be helpful for parents that want to prepare their children to become skillful lifelong readers. Go to the library or bookstore with your child. I remember when my daughter was little and we would go to Borders (no longer in business) to explore books in the children’s section. It was such fun for her
” I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.” Groucho Marx One of the first questions I ask a student I work with is: “How often do you read?” The answers vary of course, but approximately 60% will say they read about one book a year, but only because they
