Homeschool Language Arts
Becoming a Reader in a Digital Age
This post is sponsored by The Learning Bar. The first stage of becoming a reader usually begins in kindergarten or grade 1. This is when children learn the relationships between letters and…
8 Steps to an Awesome Research Paper
Not the dreaded research paper! You’ve just assigned your high school homeschooler a research paper. And you can’t understand all the drama that’s happening. Even if your child…
A Dozen Books That Make Us Human
What does it mean to be human? It’s a deep question but the “human condition is the characteristics, key events, and situations which compose the essentials of human existence, such as birth,…
Tips For Supplementing Your Homeschool Program
This post is sponsored by Kumon. Homeschooling your children is probably a decision that didn’t come without consideration. When it was time to decide on a curriculum, you likely conducted…
Using Storytelling to Improve Writing
Once upon a time, homeschool parents overlooked a teaching strategy for writing… It’s easy to be so hyper-focused on preparing your children for academic writing that you forget…
How to Create the Perfect Homeschool Writing Space
Why is writing so different from other school tasks? For most kids, writing takes a higher level of concentration and perseverance. Like reading, writing places a lot of information…
Help! My 3rd Grader Doesn’t Like to Write
Guest post by Kimberly Smith. The other day I was looking over my homeschool emails and saw a post about not putting too much pressure on writing. It was not about handwriting, but about writing…
Beat the Homeschool Blues with Writing
With the pandemic, school closings, and remote learning still a reality in communities from coast to coast, children are facing challenges like never before. If you need a way to help…
How to Choose the Best Writing Curriculum
Welcome to the new year! It’s January and a traditional time for a fresh start. Maybe you’re thinking of changing from a curriculum that isn’t working out to one that better…
Build Writing Skills with NaNoWriMo!
What’s so great about November? It’s National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo)! Back in 1999, a challenge was issued for creative writers to write 50,000 words of a new novel during…