How can I easily see how my local preschool, elementary school, middle school, or high school compares to other schools in the country and find out if its is a good school?

How can I easily see how my local preschool, elementary school, middle school, or high school compares to other schools in the country and find out if its is a good school?

by | Apr 7, 2016 | Heather's Blog, Reading Fundamentals

There is a national non profit website called www.Greatschools.org that has graded 200,000 public and private schools in the country on a scale on 1 to 10 and a community rating based on 1-5 stars. 1 being the lowest score and 10 being the highest score and 1 star...
How do you teach a child to read? What would be the 10 steps to teaching a child to read?

I am homeschooling my daughter and I just came across this program. I have been reading to her since birth, every day, and she LOVES to be read to, but gets frustrated easily while learning to read. She will not even look at the word to sound it out, and tunes me out. She doesn\’t do this with any other aspect of homeschooling, just the reading. How can we overcome this?

by | Apr 7, 2016 | Child Motivation & Development, Teaching Tips

Hi, My advice for you would be to come up with a Reading Reward system for you and your child. For example, if your child is putting in full effort he/she will get 3 points, medium effort 2 points, having a hard time concentrating 1 point per page. Each point can be...