Posts Tagged ‘ reading ’

As parents, we are concerned about our children's education and so take an interest in the various options available to provide reading help for kids. Research shows that one of the best ways to teach your child to read is by guided reading, which is basically reading with your child and helping them with...
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The enjoyment you and your child have from reading together is significant. The hours you spend sitting side by side reading, talking and giggling is precious. It creates a great relationship between you and is a great means to enhance your kids emotional, societal and cognitive maturity.
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It doesn't matter if you are studying in a traditional school or in a home schooling environment, there will be a time when you will come across burnout. This is something that you have to avoid so that your educational progress is not adversely affected.
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According to the National Center For Education Statistics, almost 1.1 million children underwent home schooling in 2005 alone. That's a lot of children. Once upon a time, homeschooling used to be a radical statement - something like a declaration of independence.
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Throughout her career as a writer and illustrator of a number of the most famous childrens books ever to have been published, Beatrix Potter herself shunned publicity and barely gave interviews. And of course at that time, famous authors did not have to do the grand tour and sign books and give readings...
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In the last decade, home schooling has become extremely popular especially with middle and upper-middle class families. There have been many arguments before about home schooling. Experts say that there are advantages as well as disadvantages in home schooling but it appears that the former outweigh the latter and therefore, a lot of families...
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Beatrix Potter was well known for having an intense distaste for advertising either herself or her works and very little compassion in her heart for her critics or her fans. Margaret Lane, who later became Potter's first biographer, wrote in 1939:
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Few people realize that Beatrix Potter did anything other than write and illustrate beautiful little children's books but she was actually quite remarkable. At a time when women were to be seen and not heard Beatrix Potter had many papers presented on her behalf, amassed a large estate, became the President of the...
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Do you think that spending time in traditional classrooms is not worth it? For some people, that is true. For example, an exam is coming up and the students are asked to memorize a list of dates and names. However, after taking the test, they will probably forget 90% of those dates and names....
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Being able to read opens the doors to a whole new world and experience for a child. Books have a way of developing a child's imagination and broadening his or her mind.
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