I’ve discovered “Alphabet Baking!” – a really great way to teach letters to hungry toddlers! Let them cook and EAT the letters 🙂 Wouldn’t you so look forward to baking if your child gave you this? The first project we made was cookie letters. Not only was it great for learning letters, it also was …

Spelling and Literacy Workbooks – Learning to Read, Write and Spell Workbooks are essential for helping develop confident happy readers and writers. When going through the learning to read age with one of my children, who was a struggling reader, I developed a ton of materials to help her find easy ways to learn the …

Great things happen when the stars align. I’m not sure that I believe that everything happens for a reason, although that thought can be comforting when bad things happen in your life. But I do believe that sometimes the stars align and something amazing happens. Let me explain by way of an example. I have …

A Journey to Reading – Dyslexic Resources – It’s now been a few years since I went through that critical learning to read stage with my eldest child. I remember how much I was looking forward to helping her navigate the journey to being a reader, and reusing all the material I had read to …

Clark Ness has an amazingly large set of learning to read books available. His site includes literally thousands of easy readers, phonics based readers, sight word books, and much, much more. This set here is just a sample of some of his work using the open dyslexic font. The set in this post contains the …

El Tigre – This is the Spanish version of Watch Out the Tiger is Here. A Tiger one of the biggest cat in the world, it needs to hunt often, but why is that everyone always knows he is here? Find out in Watch Out the Tiger is Here, a short beautifully illustrated picturebook for …

This is simply as stated our ultimate resource list of direct links to the websites of our pre-primary, primary, and secondary open educational resources providers, if we have missed anyone please contact me or leave a comment I will review and add them! Resources are listed in order of their volume of content from our …

If you’re a fan of reading yourself, you most likely want to pass your love of books onto your child. But children aren’t born readers. In fact, it’s often the case that if kids aren’t encouraged to read when they’re younger, they’ll miss out on the magic of the experience, and are unlikely to want …

High reading skills are essential for every child. The faster your kids read, and the quicker they comprehend information, the more knowledge they can gain in all subjects. If you want your son and daughter to succeed in school and life, you should find a way to increase their reading skills. Are you eager to …

Given the importance of literacy, it’s natural to be keen to encourage your child to read and to become an enthusiastic, independent reader. However, it can be all too easy to feel pressured by this, especially when your child is resistant to reading even for short bursts of 15 minutes. This situation can be frustrating, …