Pay attention to when your child begins to show an interest in a particular topic. When you encourage learning about an area of interest, you are teaching how to learn. Helping your child learn about a specific topic also shows your child that what is important to them is important to you too. Here...
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A new year brings a new start and new opportunities! Many adults sit down and think about what they are going to do different to make this year better, so why not sit down with your children and have them think about what they are going to do better? Pull out those goals that...
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Poetry is not just for preschoolers who are learning how to read. Poetry can also be used with older children for comprehension exercises such as interpretation or for writing response. Children can find the rhyming patterns in a poem so that they can copy that pattern when writing their own version of the poem...
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Homework teaches responsibility, reinforces what is being taught in the classroom, and connects home and school. Although most kids find it a chore, teachers are not going to stop assigning homework. So, the completion of homework will help your child be successful in school. It is important to keep in mind that children have...
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Reading is the ability to make meaning from words. This means that your child not only needs to recognize or be able to sound out words, but also has to put the words together and understand what they mean. Interacting with text to construct meaning is often referred to as active reading. You can...
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