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Our Reading Booklist List for Next Term

I'm ecstatic that all three of my children like to read, but I've noticed that they tend to gravitate toward the same kinds of books time after time.
So for our next 6-week school term, I decided to help them expand their book repertoire a bit. I still gave them some freedom in choosing which books [...]

How to Raise a Reader

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 pure [...]

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 our homeschool [...]

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! [...]

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