Why You Shouldn’t Teach Writing Like Math It’s pretty simple. Math is learned by understanding a mathematical concept/principle and working problems that apply the principles. The working on these problems gives feedback and depth to making sense of the...
HOW DO YOU WORK WITH DYSLEXIA? You may not know it, but Jody (and most of her family) has struggled with dyslexia. Nonetheless, she also made straight A’s in her Masters program (Education). That certainly helped us believe a different kind of homeschool writing...
WHEN ARE KIDS READY TO START WRITING ESSAYS? I posted this on the The Writing Course Group Page (FaceBook), but realized it should be a post here too: OK…so…I’m not the standard person out there, so these are my thoughts. Basically, I accept that the...
Teaching Homeschoolers to Write Well – Takes Less Than 10 Minutes a Day! A guest blog post by Dr. Fred Ray Lybrand for Homeschool.com Homeschool educators only make one consistent and glaring mistake: They Compare Their Results to Schools. I realize we...