Category: Reading

Just Add Snow Day “Specials” Pt. 3

February 3, 2017

Just Add Snow-Day Specials– Books to Read and Read-aloud When the winter months seem to put a damper on your homeschool, breaking up your days with a sprinkling of “Snow-Day Specials” can be just the cure! Transform your family’s cabin fever by creating cozy-day fun with favorite books to read and read-aloud. Here are just Read More...

Aim Academy Online, Elementary, Reading

Making the Jump: From Learning to Read to Reading to Learn

July 12, 2013

By Lauren Bailes, Aim Academy English Teacher I don’t remember quite when it happened. At one point, I was reading phonics books about dogs, boys, hats, and bats. Making meaning from even these simple words was laborious. There was just so much for my mind to hang on to — the long and short vowels, Read More...

Aim Academy Online, Elementary, Reading

Safe Landing: Reading for Inference after Making the Jump

July 15, 2013

Part II by Lauren Bailes, Aim Academy English Teacher (Part I discussed the value of the development jump, when readers go from learning to read to reading to learn. Find it here.) It’s easy to watch children begin their trajectory as emerging readers, but shaping that trajectory is just as important. Until about 3rd grade (8 Read More...

by Debra Bell, Elementary, Reading

Help! My Child’s A Late Reader

July 5, 2011

The magic of reading is part brain development and part environment. You can’t do much about the first — that’s a timeline God controls — but you certainly can about the latter. Kids will learn to read if they invest time in reading. The more they read, the better they will read. Your role is to help Read More...