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...
Rudolf Flesch once observed that language may be the only truly democratic thing on the planet. What he meant is pretty straightforward; what becomes the common grammar does so because of usage. In other words, we ‘vote’ on what proper grammar is, based on...
How to Help Your Students Get Over Being Defensive About Their Writing? When we try to teach kids how to write, you and I have both seen it dozens of times. We simply offer some helpful advice (or worse yet, we point out a mistake) and our child goes ballistic...
