What is Interactive Reading and Why is it Important?

A lady teacher is teaching students under a tree

When I was a kid, we had one choice if you wanted a story. You read it – out of a book.  Since I was lucky, I had a mom who read to us alot as kids and used all different voices to make it more interesting.  When reading The Chronicles of Narnia, she whispered…

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How to Handle Testing Anxiety

A girl child in stress sitting in a classroom

This is the time of year when we need to talk about test anxiety for our students.  Standardized testing in all venues, public, private and homeschooling will be stressful regardless so let’s go over a few ideas that can make the process a little less so. Setting up a couple of “testing traditions” that make…

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