Each year we have made a list of the books we have read together and the books that my students have read independently.  It is amazing to look back over the list at the end of the year and see all that we have accomplished.  My husband constantly jokes about how the girls have read [...]

Pizza Hut offers a wonderful reading incentive program for grades K-6.  Homeschool families need to register individually for the materials.  Students receive a FREE personal pan pizza coupon when they achieve monthly reading goals that are set by parents.  The website also offers other resources to encourage reading.  Click here to enroll your family in [...]

Barnes & Noble offers a wonderful Summer Reading program that will encourage your students to explore the world around them!  Here is how it works: Kids read any eight (8) books of their choosing. Kids use the Passport to Summer Reading to document the places visited in each book. A parent/guardian signs the Passport when [...]

Help your child learn with games, software and educational activities from Owl & Mouse Educational Software.   Early reading software—phonics software, alphabet games, and Dolch sight words in a fairy tale story.  All of it FREE!  Free online USA maps, world maps, map of Europe, map puzzles of the US, Europe, Africa, Asia, and many more.  [...]

Starfall offers a FREE online phonics course for teaching letters and reading.  The site is very interactive and offers fun graphics and games to incorporate what is being taught.  Perfect for supplementing your reading program, or you can use it as your curriculum.

Each Tuesday I am sharing resources that I recommend for PreK-K, and last week I discussed a Handwriting curriculum.  In the Three R’s (reading, writing, and arithmetic), one goal is to get your child on the right track as far as reading goes. I have personally used Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy [...]