Enjoying Christmas read-alouds as a family is a wonderful holiday tradition. This year, consider these ten books that break away from the typical Christmas story recommendations. I know what you’re thinking! It just isn’t Christmas if we don’t read A Christmas Carol, The Gift of the Magi, or The Little Match Girl. Part of the comfort…
Online creative writing can be both engaging and magical with a language arts program that knows just how to get reluctant writers from staring at a blank page to actively writing in ways they never have before! Check out how games and imagination bring writing, grammar, and spelling to life with Night Zookeeper! *Disclosure: I…
Did you know that April is National Poetry Month? If you don’t love poetry (and even if you do), it can feel a little bit overwhelming coming up with ways to teach it to kids. Poetry can be such an important part of falling in love with language. However, it can also seem like something…
Telling Your Family’s Stories: A Group Writing Experience Our family has a language arts project this year – a group project, where we’re all contributing. I’m loving it, the kids are loving it, we’re learning a lot, and we’re building our family’s identity. We’re telling stories. Our stories. Little snippets of everyday life, exciting moments,…
The Best Thing You Can Do to Help a Struggling Reader… I have been homeschooling for ten years now. Over the course of the past decade, there is one area of study that has been the most frustrating, and if I’m honest, the most terrifying for me. Teaching my youngest son to read has been,…
Ways to Use Comic Strips in High School Literature Comic strips sometimes have a reputation for being less-than-literature, but the reality is that they offer a very unique mode of storytelling that kids and teens are naturally drawn towards. Today I’m sharing a secret weapon for teaching literature that – especially if you have middle-…
