Teaching Tips
Planning For Your Homeschool
I love the planning phases of the homeschool year but, after 20 years of teaching my kids at home, I know how often my plans have been completely overrun by real life! In this post, I'll share with you some of my best tips on goal-setting, prioritizing and...
Growth Mindset for Kids: How to Teach it to Struggling Learners
Teaching a growth mindset can be especially powerful for kids who struggle to learn. Kids with dyslexia and ADHD often spend years doing things that are genuinely difficult for them. They may watch siblings or friends learn to read more easily, finish assignments more...
How a Growth Mindset Builds Confidence in Kids With Dyslexia and ADHD
Does your child shut down when learning gets hard? Maybe you hear things like: “I’m just bad at reading.” “I can’t spell.” “I’m stupid.” “I’ll never be able to do this.” Kids with dyslexia and ADHD often experience more difficulty with everyday academic tasks than...
Hands On Activities for Teaching the Alphabet
Teaching kids the alphabet with multisensory activities is not only fun but way more effective. Here are some fun hands on activities for learning the alphabet that we think your kids will love! Teaching kids to read can be fun! In fact, the more fun your kids have,...
How to Get Started Homeschooling a Child With Dyslexia
I talk with a lot of parents who are increasingly frustrated with the quality of help their kids with dyslexia are receiving in the public schools. It's not that teachers and administrators don't care. Public schools are HUGE institutions that are faced...
13 Reading Comprehension Activities Without Handwriting
The traditional method of checking reading comprehension usually involves having a student hand write answers to a series of written questions. This method is useful for efficiency in a classroom setting but it can be an inaccurate and unproductive practice for...
What To Do When Kids Hate Reading
Dyslexia makes reading hard. It just does. For many dyslexics this improves with time and practice but it is not uncommon for these difficulties to result in kids developing a strong dislike of reading. How can thoughtful parents nurture a love of reading while...
Building Reading Fluency in Dyslexic Readers
Reading fluency is difficult for the dyslexic reader to attain because they are generally spending most of their brain power trying to decode the words on the page. Let's take a look at how we can build fluency in dyslexic readers. Thanking you for joining us here...
How to Teach Phonemic Awareness
Research has shown that phonemic awareness is the single strongest indicator of a child’s success at learning to read. But, how do you teach it? I'm showing you step by step! One of the first steps in learning to read is developing a strong awareness of phonemes in...
How to Teach Kids With Dyslexia to Read
My goal is to show parents how to teach kids with dyslexia to read. There is a lot to know about teaching kids with dyslexia to read. Let's break it down step by step. If you have been around the Homeschooling With Dyslexia web site for any length of time, you know...
Understanding Accommodation & Remediation for the Student With Dyslexia
Two of the most important concepts any parent or teacher of students with dyslexia should know are: remediation and accommodation. What is Remediation? Remediation refers to the remedy-ing of a student's areas of weakness. Some examples of remediation are...
10 Tips for Teaching Kids With ADD and ADHD
Yesterday we looked at some surprising myths and misinformation on ADD and ADHD as well as signs to watch for in your own kids. You can read that post, What Every Parent Should Know About ADD & Dyslexia by clicking here. Today we're taking a look at tips...