Category Archives: Home education

Child Having Trouble Reading? Test this First!

Dr. Carol Zuccone, the Irlen representative explains this fairly common light sensitivity. Often there is a fairly easy remedy too. She tells us what mothers and teachers might look for. She says that it is educators that test for this, and so it gets overlooked by other professionals, but if this light sensitivity is not ruled out, then other tests are skewed.

Next week we will wrap up our series on what to do when the road to reading becomes rocky with an interview from Jennifer Sangave of Lindamood-Bell. It is absolutely amazing what they do. They help so many children who know one else could help.

After that I plan to post again the Dani Johnson episode on protecting our children from porn, since it was so enormously popular. Please plan to share your ideas, since social media protection has become so much more needed now than when she spoke with us.

When the Road to Reading Gets Rocky: Other Resources

In our series about what to do when your child is having trouble learning to read, today we talk about a variety of other resources for teaching spelling and getting help.

The next two weeks we will have interviews with good representatives to a couple of important providers.

Please feel free to share other resources that you have found that have helped your children/students.

When the Road to Reading is Rocky – More Ideas for Literacy and Numeracy

Last week I told you how I teach reading to children who are having a hard time learning to read. Today I give you more ideas for reading related activities and a few for mathematics. Please add yours below? Or come to Facebook: Great Shalom

How I teach Reading: Real Help to Kids Having Trouble

I was asked to say something about how homeschooling moms can help children who are having trouble reading. This is my method. This is how I taught reading to my grandsons. One of them was being put back in Kindergarten for the 3rd time, during the October of his first grade year. My daughter appealed to me since she was getting nowhere with the school system. He learned in 4 hours! We worked with him in other ways and he excelled. Then, I used the same method on the second grandson who had different problems and then compounded with a serious brain injury from a car accident. He went on to a private Elementary with no one ever knowing he had had a problem. He was on the honor roll for the next two years.

Don’t let bad method be the reason that your child learns that he is stupid or that she is “learning disabled.” Of course, some problems may need some help by skilled professionals, but teaching reading in a sensible, organized, multi-sensory way is a reasonable place to start.

Here is how.