Reposted with permission from https://www.towersoflight.net. Over the summer, it seemed like falling reading and math scores in the country came up daily in my social media feed. U.S. reading and math scores drop to lowest level in decades Illinois test scores highlight pandemic fallout with declines in math, reading Iowa’s test scores for 4th and 8thContinueContinue reading “Guest Post: Help for Struggling Readers by Allen Brokken”
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Still Small Voice Audiobook & Unit Study Launch with Allen Brokken
Join the Still Small Voice launch event on Thursday, May 26th at 7pm! There’ll be games, prizes, and a live event with author Allen Brokken, narrator Stacey Bradshaw, and several others, including myself. It has been a joy working with Allen to create unit studies for his middle-grade Christian fantasy Towers of Light series. StillContinueContinue reading “Still Small Voice Audiobook & Unit Study Launch with Allen Brokken”
Teaching Resources for High School
Looking for resources to supplement your literature curriculum? There are three new (or recently updated) high school resources available on my TpT store. And like all resources in my TpT store, they’re FREE! A guide for writing book reviews that includes quick-start questions, story analysis word bank, and a visual organizer. Download on TpT AContinueContinue reading “Teaching Resources for High School”
Independent Activities for Summer Reading
At the beginning of June, we transitioned into our summer homeschool activities. While summer reading isn’t our only activity, it has always been an important part of what we do. My son will begin high school in the fall. And this summer, I wanted to be more intentional about the books he’s reading. I alsoContinueContinue reading “Independent Activities for Summer Reading”
Teaching Resource: Lesson Plan Coming Soon
I began posting this teaching resource series in February. The worksheets, handouts, and lesson plan were things I had created as part of a creative writing course for our homeschool. We officially finished the course last week. It was then that I realized the last worksheet set wasn’t necessary. At least not as a separateContinueContinue reading “Teaching Resource: Lesson Plan Coming Soon”
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