by Kandis | Sep 13, 2024 | Blog Posts, Do, Playful Homescholing, Reading Comprehension, Think, Upper Elementary, Younger Elementary
Learning to access your schema – what you already know – about something is an important skill to a thoughtful reader. To thoughtfully read something, you must compare what is in your current schema file about a subject to what is being communicated by the...
by Kandis | Sep 4, 2024 | Blog Posts, Know, Middle School, Reading Comprehension, Think, Upper Elementary, Younger Elementary
You and your child are now noticing when you are thinking as you read! That’s great! Happy Dance!!! I wish that I could say that was all you needed to do to raise a thoughtful reader. But, if we stop here, we are setting our kids up to miss out on a whole lot of...
by Kandis | Oct 5, 2022 | Blog Posts, Do, Learn, Think, Upper Elementary, Younger Elementary
It’s easy to hand a child a book and tell them to read it. However, at all levels, the work that goes in before the first word of a book makes an incredible difference in overall comprehension. So, what exactly does work before a book begins look like? No matter...
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