by Kandis | Feb 5, 2025 | Blog Posts, Do, Learn, Middle School, Reading Comprehension, Think, Upper Elementary, Younger Elementary
Do you know how much you can learn about someone by going through their trash? Follow me here for a minute. I promise I’m not going to actually encourage you to dig through your neighbor’s trash; though that worked out well for Cam Jansen in Cam Jansen and...
by Kandis | Nov 20, 2024 | Blog Posts, Do, Learn, Middle School, Reading Comprehension, Think, Upper Elementary, Younger Elementary
I’m pretty sure that everyone has a Nana in their life because Nana is the person who can tell a story about anything because she has lived it all and if she hasn’t she has a way to connect what you are talking about to something she has lived. Nana can...
by Kandis | Oct 30, 2024 | Blog Posts, Learn, Middle School, Reading Comprehension, Think, Upper Elementary, Younger Elementary
When kids first start making predictions they are often so concerned with being accurate that they don’t add any detail to their predictions. The vagueness of their predictions is only matched by the vagueness of someone with something to hide. You know the...
by Kandis | Oct 2, 2024 | Blog Posts, Learn, Middle School, Reading Comprehension, Think, Upper Elementary, Younger Elementary
Learning individual comprehension strategies like visualizing, schema, questioning, inferring, summarizing, predicting, connections and judgments is a great start. Unfortunately, having the ability to use each strategy in isolation not enough. Isolated strategy use is...
by Kandis | Sep 18, 2024 | Blog Posts, Do, Learn, Middle School, Reading Comprehension, Think, Upper Elementary, Younger Elementary
Read the following words and then close your eyes for a moment. Quietly the child walked hand in hand with her grandmother down the seashore. There was no need for words – the crashing waves and squawking seabirds were carrying the conversation. This would be...
by Kandis | Aug 28, 2024 | Blog Posts, Do, Learn, New to Homeschooling, Reading Comprehension, Think, Upper Elementary, Values & Beliefs, Younger Elementary
I don’t know about your family but our family was enthralled with the Olympics this summer. We watched bits and pieces of countless events. Everything from surfing to ping pong, high jump to water polo and all the things in between. One part we didn’t...
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