How to Raise a Reader

reader-1

I love to read. My husband loves to read. My two daughters love to read. But my son has been staunchly opposed to reading since he first learned how in Kindergarten. He'll read if he is required to for school, but he has never really sat down to read a real book just for the [...]

A Nascent Bibliophile?

I've been a bibliophile from childhood, so naturally I think these are some of the most beautiful pictures I've ever taken of my little JoJo. Could this mean that she's becoming a bibliophile as well? I certainly hope so! Either way, she's quite adept at adopting the posture of a book lover.

Wordless Wednesday: Raising a Reader

For more Wordless Wednesdays, stop by here and here.

An Addiction Worth Encouraging

My two girls like to multi-task — reading and eating simultaneously. Hmm…wonder where they learned that?

What to do with all the books?

We are book collectors. We're avid book readers as well, but we seem to collect books faster than we can read them. We have hundreds of fantastic books with great information in them—from science to history and everything in between—and I'm looking for a way to get my kids to read them. As part of [...]

In Which Joely Reads a Bob Book

We decided to change up Joely's reading/phonics lesson today and video recorded her reading a Bob book as a kind of Show and Tell. Joely, I think, has hit a big milestone this week in that she is suddenly sounding out words less and less and is reading with more fluency. Way to go, Joely! [...]

The Definition of a Voracious Reader

It's very difficult to wake up my 9-year-old daughter in the morning. She sleeps so soundly that her clock alarm could be going off right next to her head, and she wouldn't budge an inch. Both the smoke alarm and the burglar alarm don't even wake her (and that part kinda scares me). It took [...]

Picture this…

My husband is (generally) not one to respond to memes, but he was tapped for a Picture this… meme and he actually did it. The idea is to answer all the questions using only GOOGLE IMAGES. It looked like fun to me, so I thought I'd do one of my own. Here goes. Can you [...]

Two fantastic book series for kids…especially for reluctant readers!

My son is not a recreational reader. In fact, it's almost like pulling teeth getting him to read sometimes. But there have been two book series in particular that really grabbed his attention—even to the point that he sat down and read when he wasn't required (gasp!). Needless to say, I would highly recommend these [...]

A scratch in the dark

I stayed up reading last night (The Emerald Isle, by Angela Elwell Hunt). Usually reading in bed makes me drowsy, but I was wide awake for the entire book, and I didn't finish the book until 3:30 a.m! Then Jaden woke me up at 4:45 a.m. (ugh) telling me he heard weird scratching noises in [...]

Looking for a curriculum your kids will like?
An online homeschool curriculum can open new doors by creating an interactive learning experience that brings concepts to life.
Check out Time4Learning's:
online curriculum
Homeschooling should be fun.
With Time4Learning, it can be!
Laugh your way through Latin with VIsual Latin