by Marianne | Teaching Tips
The SQ3R Method is an excellent way to help kids learn from a textbook. This post will show you what the SQ3R Method is and how to teach it to your kids. As a long-time, homeschooling parent of 7 kids with dyslexia, I don’t usually recommend a traditional...
by Marianne | By The Subject, Teaching Tips
For most people with dyslexia, reading improves steadily over time. Also for many dyslexics, spelling does not. Spelling continues to be a problem for many people with dyslexia throughout their lifetime. That will be the topic of this week’s Mailbox Monday:...
by Marianne | Focus & Motivation, Organization
Successfully homeschooling a child with inattentive ADHD isn’t always easy but the freedom and flexibility to them in the way they learn is of such benefit, it is worth the struggle. Today’s Mailbox Monday question has to do with just that: “Do you...
by Marianne | Teaching Tips
In my last post, I asked the question of whether or not language-based learning difficulties like dyslexia, dysgraphia, and dyscalculia are learning disabilities that need to be ‘fixed’ or learning differences that need teaching differences. We also talked...
by Marianne | Dyslexia Information
Kids with learning difficulties are often labeled as having a learning disability. What if we looked at them instead as having a learning difference? Early on in our days of homeschooling, my creative, entrepreneurial, and dyslexic husband bought a boat, we moved on...