Note: If you are already a Scholar Within Reading & Spelling Program member, you have access to the same material as in the summer program. Table of Contents The struggle is real when it comes to keeping your K-8th graders entertained and educated during the summer months! After all, there’s only so much Minecraft, swimming,…
The Learning Blog 👋
Reading Comprehension Strategies
Reading comprehension strategies are a great way to improve your reading comprehension skills. Reading comprehension is the ability to understand, analyze, synthesize, and use what you have read. When you use specific strategies, you make it easier to understand and remember what you have read. “Comprehension is now viewed as a much more complex process…
Top 6 Reading Fluency Activities
Reading fluency is the speed or rate of reading without conscious attention to the mechanics of reading. A fluent reader has the ability to read and understand words automatically. They are able to more easily comprehend complete sentences and entire reading selections.
Sleeping Tips and Solutions for Sleep Problems
How to Adjust to the Time Change Table of Contents Overview Sleep problems can affect all of us and are especially difficult with the time change. Sleep is critical for our minds, memory, learning, and development. While sleeping, your brain organizes information, makes connections, and even solves problems. Sleeping tips and solutions can help you…
10 Spelling Activities for Any Word List
Looking for a method to the madness of learning to spell? Take a look at Scholar Within’s spelling program. We teach spelling through spelling patterns with systematic step-by-step video lessons and hands-on activities. Learn More Spelling activities can make spelling practice a bit more fun and can help with spelling problems. Spelling problems can happen because…
Valentine’s Day Activities for Kids
Holidays like Valentine’s Day are perfect for reinforcing learning skills with activities, crafts, and games for kids. It is one of our favorite days of the year. Valentine’s Day is a time of love and reflection on our family relationships and friends. We have 3 simple activities that you can do with your kids this…
What Causes Problems with Spelling?
Many children and even adults have problems with spelling. Spell check can often only get you so far. Sometimes spell check cannot even tell what word it is you are trying to spell. You may have even written a word that is a word but not the word you intended to write. Poor spelling abilities…
10 Best Practices to Improve Reading Comprehension
When you use best practices for improving reading comprehension, it is easier to understand what you have read. Reading comprehension is the ability to understand, analyze, synthesize, and use what you have read. Continue reading to discover 10 best practices to improve reading comprehension.
Auditory Processing Activities
Table of Contents Webinar Replay: Auditory Processing, Decoding, and the Secret to SpellingWatch Now Auditory Processing Overview Auditory processing is one of the three ways we learn. We learn by hearing (auditory processing), seeing (visual processing), and doing (tactile-kinesthetic processing). Good listening skills are needed to make learning easier. Just like how with taste you…
4 Steps to Goal Setting for Kids
Table of Contents Overview: How Does Goal Setting Help Kids? Goal setting for kids is one of the best ways to increase motivation. Defining, setting, and prioritizing your goals is the first step to helping your child accomplish what they want to do. If they have not clearly defined a goal that they want to…
