ABeCeDarian Reading Program is “a research-based, explicit, comprehensive, multi-sensory decoding program.” It focuses on phonemics awareness, phonics, and fluency. ABeCeDarian is divided into 4 levels. Crew members with young readers have been using the first two levels of the program. Level A is for nonreaders or very beginning readers. Level B is for students reading at … Read more
Classical Academic Press offers curriculum for today’s students, refreshing proven techniques and innovatively combining them with modern education methods. They produce materials for many subject areas, including Poetry, Logic, Bible, and the languages Latin, Greek, Spanish and French. Crew members recently reviewed two course, The Discovery of Deduction: An Introduction to Formal Logic and The … Read more
The READS Parent/Child Reading Comprehension System, available from EGM Education Systems, LLC, was developed by a certified reading specialist to help develop more confident readers and stronger learners. READS stands for a “really easy and dynamic strategy” to develop reading comprehension. With READS, a parent can make sure the child really understands what he is reading and … Read more
This article is in collaboration with Handwriting Without Tears. For over thirty years, Handwriting Without Tears has been teaching handwriting in just 15 minutes a day! Their multi-sensorial program combines hands-on learning, music, workbooks, and assessments to help children learn to write without resulting in tears. Handwriting Without Tears (HWT) produces learning tools and books … Read more
Most of the time when favorite homeschool subjects are being discussed, someone is asking one of your students, “What’s your favorite subject?” In my house, the answer would be, “Anything but math!” But this week’s Blog Cruise is a fun one! We are asking members of the Crew which subjects are their favorites to teach! … Read more