by By Carol Barnier ADHD Teaching Tip #1 Making Math Workbooks WORK! Give them work in smaller groups. Place a whole page of math problems in front of these kids and the task before them seems insurmountable. But if they see only one chunk at a time, they don’t get [...]
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by Linda Mikotis Listening, speaking, reading, and writing are the four domains necessary for language acquisition. Each domain contributes to a different area of language development beginning at a child’s birth. Throughout his life, exposure to these domains varies from family to family and child to child. Some children have [...]
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by Sandy Cook Is homeschooling or public school better for a child with learning disabilities? When a child is struggling in school, his parents know public education isn’t meeting their child’s needs. When a child is homeschooled and struggling to learn, his parents wonder if they should enroll him [...]
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by Andrew Pudewa Good Writing. What is it? Everyone has an opinion, but opinions differ widely. While one language arts curriculum infers that simply adding in more adjectives will “improve” sentences, other experts—quoting Mark Twain—suggest that adjectives and adverbs should be hunted down and killed. Although most people would agree [...]
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“When in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for the kids of America to dissolve the youthful barriers that separate them from society, and to assume among themselves the God-given responsibility to study and understand the founding principles of their nation, a decent respect to the opinions of [...]
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When Chelsea was just a toddler, we thought she might be deaf. Seemingly quite interested in what you had to say, she would give you great eye-contact, watch your lips move and then simply run along falling directly into the very thing you had just instructed her to avoid. At times, [...]
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