One of my clients shared Cincinnati Zoo's Home Safari daily Facebook LIVE event with me. My children LOVE it. Due to the fact that I'm already providing reading and writing activities for my little people, my client asked if I'd be willing to share what I do online during this crazy Coronavirus quarantine. THIS is what it means to hire me as your educational consultant! I do my very best to provide opportunities to enrich your educational experience and journey alongside you

I was speaking to one of my dearest teacher friends forced home due to the Coronavirus scare that we are currently facing as a world. She joked that she is going to go nuts being shut-in like this! YES! Aren't we all? We are used to visiting our local YMCA two to three times per week, attending a community potluck and Bible study with our church group once a week, library day, and church every Sunday. Life as we know it will continue within the four walls of our home. That mo

An important aspect to teach readers is how to self-monitor their misunderstandings. Good readers have a few fix-it strategies in their toolbox that help them understand difficult text. The good news is that we all experience difficult text, the trick is to find a strategy that helps unlock the comprehension potential. I am always telling my struggling readers this truth, Everyone struggles. Even good readers struggle. The fact that you're struggling proves that you're a livi

Our end goal as educators should be to create life-long learners. In order to accomplish this we must value the ability to read and write, because a persons ability to read and write define literacy. It is impossible to separate the two! As an educator I've pursued a literacy-based learning approach in all subject areas. Whether it's science, math, history, and even the arts, the possibilities are endless when reading and writing are at the core of the learning process. This

My teaching certification is in secondary English/Language Arts. Reading and writing is my specialty, especially with the 7-12 grade crowd. My favorite resources (for mom and teacher alike) will be offered in today's posts. I'm hopeful you get as much out of them as I do. I believe that individuals have the responsibility to learn as much as they can in their chosen field. This requires a library card, a budget for the material the library does not have, and time set aside ev

I'm going to approach this post as a Q&A session while giving the tools of my writer's (homeschool and tutoring students) favorite writing tools. These questions were asked by moms who needed help with their students writing and each of these products were successfully used to inspire early readers to write what they were learning! Should students learn to write while learning to read? Yes! Writing is proven to boost memory, therefore anyone under my tutelage must write their

When it comes to little minds we are to build a solid foundation in reading and writing. That is our primary goal. Otherwise, the sciences, history, math, and all other subject areas cannot thrive. You may be shaking your head, because you've had success with numbers but reading has been met with difficulty. Here is why I argue this case: in every subject, in every textbook there are text features and writing processes that enable a scientist (for example) to thrive as a self

What are you reading? I am thoroughly enjoying Stephen King's On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft. I knew I would learn from him, but it is above and beyond my expectations. If you want to be a writer, or if you want to teach or tutor writing (as I do) I recommend reading this book. Not only will you learn some valuable tools of the trade, but I think it'll be a book you'll enjoy as well. After reading it, I would encourage any aspiring author to pick it up and learn. The reaso

First off I want to thank you for your patience during this time of our life! We've been in flux and limbo land for the month of July, moved to Kearney the second week of August, spent a week with no WiFi (which is always a blessing in disguise, but is also super frustrating when you're attempting to run an online business) and we are back to business as usual. A better way to say that might be, we are finding our new norm. One of the areas that I'm prepping for is our homesc