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May 19, 2016
Homeschooling - How to Teach Your Child Spelling Words
If you're looking to teach your child spelling words and improve their overall skills and confidence, it's important to remember that the learning process should be made interesting, motivating and fun. This is particularly crucial for children who already experience some difficulties with spelling words. Children who struggle to spell words and mix up their letters require considerate and loving attention to help them overcome these challenges and avoid getting frustrated, defeated and unwilling to improve. Here are some fun and simple spelling games and activities to help you...
Mar 12, 2016
Homeschool Tips for Helping Children with Autism Read
Many parents of children with autism prefer to play a more active role in their child’s education, which is the reason why some of them turn to home schooling. Home schooling parents understand their own child’s strengths and weaknesses better than anyone else. Helping a child with autism learn to read involves the ability to observe how these strengths and weaknesses affect the child’s ability to learn. **ABC Reading Eggs is the research-based homeschool reading program that helps children of all learning abilities learn to read. Start your [free...
Mar 11, 2016
Is your Homeschooler Ready to Read? 10 Signs of Reading Readiness
Helping a child learn to read is one of the greatest joys for many home schooling parents. There is nothing more magical, fulfilling or rewarding than watching your child finally read their first few sentences fluently and entirely on their own. Your child will learn to read at their own pace, and most homeschoolers know that there is no set age at which all children are expected to be ready to start reading. However, understanding when your child is ready to read doesn’t have to be a mystery. Homeschoolers can look out...
Feb 28, 2016
Helping Your Homeschooler Learn to Read (Part 2 of 2)
In our [first post](/articles/2016/02/27/helping-your-homeschooler) on helping your homeschooler learn to read, we looked at some useful ways parents can help their child take their first steps towards learning to read. In addition to reading to your child regularly, drawing their attention to words, and understanding the learning to read process, there are many pre-reading activities that homeschoolers can implement regularly to give their child the best chance at achieving reading success. In our second post for 'Helping Your Homeschooler Learn to Read', we look at some fun and easy activities you...