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Tips for Teaching Cursive Writing is a post from contributing writer Melissa Corkum. When my oldest started Kindergarten at a local, classical, Christian school, I was surprised to learn that they taught cursive first. To their credit, they did a great job educating us, parents, as to the “why” of how they taught. They made me a believer. I’ll share a… Read More
The following post is from Melissa of The Cork Board: So you’ve done the phonics thing and the reading light bulb is starting to come on. Now to get past that choppy, staccato stumbling over words to fluent reading for comprehension. Steps to Increase Reading Fluency Choose reading material below level. When you’re working on fluency, you want to be able… Read More
The following post is from Melissa of The Cork Board: The digital age has made photography so much more accessible to the general public. I find parents are usually just as interested as figuring out what their camera can do as students. Having a child who wants to learn about photography is the perfect excuse to become a student yourself…. Read More
The following post is from Melissa of The Cork Board When we first started homeschooling, spelling was not even on my radar. At the time, I had a fluent third grader who was a natural speller and a first grader who was just trying to figure out the basics of reading. I thought spelling would just complicate things. Once I… Read More
The following post is from Melissa of The Cork Board This post contains affiliate links. Not just about reading the classics in Latin and Greek. When I thumb through classical education curriculum catalogs, I often get the impression that classical education is all about studying ancient texts and civilizations. In fact, classical education is a method of teaching anything in… Read More
The following is a post from contributing writer Melissa Corkum and includes affiliate links. Forget higher math, teaching a child to read has to be the most intimidating part of homeschooling. It didn’t help that our guinea pig, I mean first child, taught himself to read when he was four. When we decided to homeschool, I almost left my daughter… Read More