Ok, so what are your children reading? Are they reading on their own, or are you reading to them? My sixth grader is reading Fablehaven right now. I do not have her reading anything in particular for “school” so to speak. I figure it is more important to keep her reading anything that is close [...]

There are so many words in the English language. If you are an adult, who learned to speak English as your first language, you may not realize how difficult our language is. If you are an adult who learned English as a second language, you know what I am talking about. One of the worst [...]

My daughter is a voracious reader. She always has a book in her hand, whether it is an actual, physical book, or an e-reader, or a computer with e-books on it. She loves to read any and everything, Because she loves to read so much, I have not worried much about her vocabulary. She seems [...]

So, how is your school year going so far? Have you started the hard work yet? We are just beginning to start the part of school that my daughter considers the “hard work”. Of course, if it is related to language arts at all she things it is hard. And some of that is harder [...]

Words. It is hard to remember how much there is to actually learn about the English language. Every day that we do language arts in school I remember something that I have forgotten. Who knew English was so complicated? For those of us who grew up speaking the language, over the course of many years, [...]