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…
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Parent-Teacher Conference Questions
Parent-teacher conferences are the perfect time for parents to ask questions and to get a report from your child’s teacher. This year, this conference is even more important as so many of your children are doing school virtually, either fully or partially. This is your opportunity to discuss what you see at home, as well as what the…
Sleep Problems? Tips to Help You Adjust to the Time Change
NEW: At-Home and Online Spelling Program with Phonics and Spelling Patterns – Limited time discount extended until Thursday. Learn More 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 you are sleeping, your brain organizes information, makes connections,…
New Online Spelling Program
We have redesigned our At-Home and Online Spelling Program from the ground up to be the most effective and efficient way to improve your child’s spelling skills. Your kids will learn how to spell words according to their phonetic patterns. They’ll start to identify that most words follow 8 simple spelling patterns. Your kids will…
10 Spelling Activities for Any Word List
Coming Soon — At-Home and Online Spelling Program with Phonics. Join the waitlist to be the first to know when the program is available. Spelling activities can make spelling practice a bit more fun and can help with spelling problems. As we learned last week, spelling problems can happen because of auditory and visual processing problems. These…
What Causes Problems with Spelling
Now Open — At-Home and Online Spelling Program with Phonics. Learn More Many children and even adults have problems and difficulties 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…
10 Back-to-School Supplies: The Ultimate List
This year is looking quite a bit different from previous years. That does not mean you can’t set your kids up for success! Having the right back-to-school supplies can make the difference. Use our supplies list to get your year off to a great start. What Can You Do to Get Your Kids Off to…
4 Steps to Successful Goal Setting for Kids
What is the best way for your kids to set and accomplish their goals this year? Defining, setting, and prioritizing your goals is the first step to accomplish what you want to do. If you have not clearly defined a goal that you want to accomplish, it is much harder to actually achieve it. When…
Summer Learning Loss and COVID-19
Summer learning loss during COVID-19 is something we should all be aware of. You know as well as I know how your kids have struggled this spring with the schools shut down. On top of that, though, a new study in the American Education Research Journal that was published this week states that 52% of…
4th of July Family Activities
This year, the 4th of July might be a little different for your family, but that doesn’t mean you can’t still have fun! There are a lot of activities you can do with your direct family to make your 4th of July that much more memorable. The 4th of July is perfect for outside activities…