September 21, 2020
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See It, Say It, Write It! A Guide to Learning Math Facts

Learning multiplication facts for primary students can be fast and fun when all the senses are involved. “See It, Say It, Write It” ensures students will be able to easily memorize these facts for life! This quick-paced, energetic system works for addition, subtraction, and division in schoolrooms, micro schools, pods, and homeschools.

Supply List

Teachers and parents need only a few supplies for math fact memorization. Start with a dry-erase whiteboard 3 ft. x 4 ft. or larger mounted on your wall with just two nails. Set up a couple of tables or desks for the children where they can see and access the whiteboard. You will need a set of:

Multiplication flashcards
Wide-ruled lined paper
Sharpened pencils
Multiplication facts practice (from Basic Math Skills or create your own)

See It!

Keep your “See It!” teaching lively and quick. Choose one set of facts to concentrate on each day. We will use 6 as an example. Once children are settled and have turned on their “math brains,” write 6 x 1 and say, “Six times one is __?” Let the students answer, then move quickly to 6 x 2, etc., all the way through 12. As you go, teach tricks, like, “6 x 4 is 24” – “there’s a four in the answer so you can rhyme it,” and “6 x 6 is 36 – look, there’s a six in the answer.” “6 x 8 is 48, another rhyme!” Use body language with a little dance move for the rhyming ones.

Remind them that 6 x 5 will either end in a zero or a five (a fun clue – even numbers times five always end in zero, and odd numbers always end in five), and that whenever a number is multiplied by nine, the digits in the answer will add up to nine! “The mystery of the nines” is intriguing to them.

Say It!

When all of the facts are on the board, then have the students read them together, “Six times one is six, etc.” Explain that you always say the number on the bottom first. As they say it aloud, they are also hearing it.

At the top of the board, say and write the “Sixes Sequence,” 6-12-18-24-30-36-42-48-54-60-66-72.

Have your child come to the board and write the facts answers in the problems you first wrote. As they do the problems, have them say it, “Six times three is eighteen, etc.” With a small group, each child can work at the board. Make sure their ones and tens are lined up correctly. Some students can also write the “Sixes Sequence.”

Write It!

Now for the Write It! portion of your lesson. On wide-ruled notebook paper, have the children neatly write the “Sixes Sequence” and all of the 6x fact problems and answers from the board. If time allows, have them read their answers back to you.

At this point, pass out a simple Math Facts review sheet from Evan-Moor’s Basic Math Skills for grades 1–6 with all of the facts up through the lesson you just taught. For example, ones through sixes if you have covered those. Keep reviewing what you have learned every day. If you find that the sixes need another day, then do it again tomorrow before moving on to the sevens.

Tips and Free printables

Free Multiplication Table Chart: For those who need help, print out and give them this free multiplication table chart from Building Math Fluency grade 3.

To round out your learning session, do a quick multiplication flashcard game, where you quickly flash the cards to each student, let them have a chance, then the next, etc. You can find flashcards here:

Download these free multiplication flashcards from Building Math Fluency for grades 1–6.

A fun way to reward their good work is with a bag of Skittles, raisins, nuts, or any small treat that the students make into a multiplication problem. For example, “William, show me three times four with your Skittles.” Make sure he creates three groups of four. Then ask him, “William, now show me four times three.”

The key to “See It, Say It, Write It!” is repetition, repetition, repetition. Go all the way through to twelves. Yes, second and third graders can do this, and older students will appreciate the pace. Keep reviewing previous lessons. Have fun with the doubles: 4 x 4 and 8 x 8, with some of your math whizzes memorizing 10 x 10, 15 x 15, 20 x 20, and 25 x 25!

A Guide to Evan-Moor’s Math Practice Titles

Building Math Fluency: This series helps develop children’s understanding of number patterns and relationships. It includes plenty of addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division math fact practice, as well as shortcuts for learning math relationships. Included are math fact tests, practice pages, and printable flashcards.

Basic Math Skills for grades 1–6 provides plenty of practice pages that cover important skills in each grade.

Learning Line Flashcard Set: Subtraction, Multiplication, Division

Check out Tips for Teaching Multiplication and a Free Multiplication Strategy Printable for multiplication tricks and strategies.

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Connie Pillsbury graduated from the University of Redlands with a B.A. in English Literature and earned her Lifetime Credential through the University of Southern California (USC) Honors Intern program in Elementary Education. She has over 15 years of experience as an Elementary teacher and Resource Specialist. She is currently dedicating her time to teaching cursive to students of all ages through “Connie’s Cursive,” a community service program on the Central Coast of California.

September 21, 2020
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35 Growth Mindset Quotes to Inspire Children

Give children and students a positive start to their day with inspirational quotes. Inspirational quotes can help motivate children to learn and encourage them to accept mistakes and during the learning process. Start your school day or week with a simple quote or saying. You can choose one quote a week or write a new one each day! You can even ask children to contribute their favorite saying that inspires them. Easily display your inspirational quotes on your classroom whiteboard or an individual white board for distance learning.

Get inspiration for your own whiteboard designs and learn how to create a whiteboard with just a pocket protector and paper in this DIY Whiteboard video.

35 Inspirational quotes

“Happiness depends more on the internal frame of mind of a person’s own mind than on the externals in the world.” – George Washington

“Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.” – Albert Einstein

“I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.” – Thomas Alva Edison

“Why fit in when you were born to stand out?” – Dr. Seuss

“The secret of getting ahead is getting started.” – Mark Twain

“Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That’s why we call it ‘The Present.'” – Eleanor Roosevelt

“If you can dream it, you can do it.” – Walt Disney

“People will forget what you said. People will forget what you did. But people will never forget how you made them feel.” – Maya Angelou

“No one is perfect – that’s why pencils have erasers.” – Wolfgang Riebe

“The capacity to learn is a gift; the ability to learn is a skill; the willingness to learn is a choice.” – Brian Herbert

“Look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see, and wonder about what makes the universe exist. Be curious.” – Stephen Hawking

“Practice isn’t the thing you do once you’re good. It’s the thing you do that makes you good.” – Malcolm Gladwell

“Let us remember: One book, one pen, one child and one teacher can change the world.” – Malala Yousafzai

“Education is the key to unlocking the world, a passport to freedom.” – Oprah Winfrey

“Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body” – Joseph Addison

“Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.” – Barack Obama

“Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.” – Judy Garland

“You can, you should, and if you’re brave enough to start, you will.” – Stephen King

“You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.” – Wayne Gretzky

“It’s always too soon to quit.” – Norman Vincent Peale

“Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.” – Dalai Lama

“If you see someone without a smile, give them one of yours.” – Dolly Parton

“You can always, always give something, even if it is only kindness!” – Anne Frank

“In a world where you can be anything, be kind.” – Jennifer Dukes Lee

“The time is always right to do what is right.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.

“Tough times never last but tough people do.” – Robert H. Schuller

“You’re braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.” – A. A. Milne

“The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.” – Dr. Seuss

“You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose.” – Dr. Seuss

“Obstacles don’t have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don’t turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it or work around it.” – Michael Jordan

“It’s not whether you get knocked down; it’s whether you get up.” – Vince Lombardi

“Failing to prepare is preparing to fail.” – Wayne Gretzky

“Don’t let what you can’t do stop you from doing what you can do.” – John Wooden

“Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.” – Judy Garland

Include your daily or weekly quotes in your weekly writing prompts (for grades 2-6.)

Read quotes aloud as a class and discuss the lesson or goal behind each one.
List examples of how each quote can help children during their school day.
Ask children or students to write about how each saying can help them.

Incorporate positive and encouraging quotes and start off your school day with positive thoughts. Student’s emotional health and well-being is an important part of the learning process, especially during irregular and stressful times. Use daily motivational quotes to boost emotional wellness, in addition to other social and emotional learning strategies.

You can find more activities and information for teaching social and emotional learning in this blog: Strategies for Teaching Social and Emotional Learning: Create a Classroom of Superheroes.

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Christine Wooler has experience working with children as a youth soccer coach and summer camp counselor. She is currently studying English Literature and journalism in college. She enjoys exploring educational topics that help students have fun while learning.

September 21, 2020
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Hands-on Social Studies and Geography Lessons and Activities

Hands-on activities are the key to making social studies a fun and memorable experience for children. I can still vividly recall building a Pyramid during my Egyptian unit in 7th grade and wearing a toga during the Greek unit later that year. Make your social studies class memorable with hands-on History Pockets from Evan-Moor!

History Pockets

History Pockets by Evan-Moor is a great hands-on addition to social studies classes. These social study units include interactive and engaging activities that are easy to assemble and include colorful activities.

For example: History Pockets: Ancient Civilizations contains introductory units for Ancient Greece, Rome, China, Egypt, and more! Each unit includes reading, activities, coloring, and more that will bring the ancient world to life. At the end of each unit of each title, students can display their projects in the history pocket folder. Some of the fun activities include:

Pop-up books
Cut-out puppets
Paper models of ancient monuments
Additional hands-on projects that enhance each period study

Here is a full list of History Pockets available for grades 1–3.

History Pockets: Life in Plymouth Colony

History Pockets: Native Americans

History Pockets: Ancient Civilizations

Here is a full list of History Pockets available for grades 4–6.

History Pockets: Ancient Rome

History Pockets: Ancient Egypt

History Pockets: Ancient Greece

History Pockets: Explorers of North America

History Pockets: Colonial America

History Pockets: Moving West

History Pockets: The American Civil War

History Pockets: The American Revolution

History Pockets provides an in-depth study into every aspect of historical and ancient life. Every pocket book includes seven to nine pockets (about 20 pages each) that include a unit introduction and topics such as:

Geography
Religion
Architecture
Daily life
Important individuals

This example is from History Pockets Ancient Rome and showcases the first of eight pockets, an introduction to Ancient Rome.

Geography

Daily Geography Practice books provide short 15 to 20 minutes geography activities that help children learn important map skills. Map lessons introduce basic geography skills and vocabulary terms with fun hands-on projects. Daily Geography Practice is aligned to National Geography Standards and the six essential elements of geography:

The world in spatial terms
Places and regions
Physical systems
Human systems
Environment and society
Uses of geography

The Skill Sharpeners activity books are available for grades PreK–6 and cover many different subject areas across the curriculum. Skill Sharpeners: Geography for grades PreK–6 engages students in the world around them by providing different geographical activities and lessons. Students learn:

Map skills
Regions
Continents
Oceans
Habitats and biomes

The colorful and fun activities included in Skill Sharpeners provide children with an in-depth understanding of geography.

Interactive Social Study Activities

Animating your lessons as much as possible with activities is a great way to get children excited about history. Whether it’s costumes, props, or art projects, finding a way to entertain your students with the material will benefit their involvement. Here are some fun ideas and projects for your classroom:

Dress up: When my class went over Ancient Greece and Rome, we were required to make a toga out of bedsheets and wear it to class each day. It was a lot of fun for everyone, and added an interactive element to our unit. Add a costume project to your class to liven up the unit!
Roleplay: In addition to togas, my teacher would often act out parts of history or include elements of the unit in our classroom. For example: Group students together under different Greek gods when learning about mythology or do a field-day mini Olympics when teaching the Olympics of Ancient Greece.
Interactive projects: Assign projects that are fun to complete, like building a model monument from the historical period you’re studying. It could be a pyramid, a temple, the liberty bell, anything!
Clothesline timeline: Hang a clothesline across the classroom and have students work together to accurately place historic events, whether cumulative or just from your current unit. Clip a picture or label to the clothesline with the dates.
Wax museum: Have students pick a historic figure they’d like to do a report on. Instead of a traditional report, have them dress up in costume, with any props they’d like, and pose as a “wax museum.” Invite students, teachers, and parents to tour the museum, where your students will provide facts and information about their historic figure.
Assign a curiosity project: Tap into children’s curiosity with an historical curiosity project. Check out this blog post that describes a form of student-led and inquiry-based learning called a “Curiosity Project.” Click here to read the blog and learn how to engage your child in researching what he or she is interested in.

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August 31, 2020
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What Type of Learner Is Your Child?

Every child learns differently and will respond to different teaching strategies depending on his or her learning style. Some students will excel with hands-on activities, while others prefer quiet reading or writing-based learning. So what are the different learning styles, and which one does your child prefer? Below are tips for how to identify what type of learner your child is and how to incorporate strategies to help him or her learn best.

What are the types of learning?

There are seven main types of learning styles, and though students can process all seven, usually one stands out as their strongest. The seven types are:

Auditory (aural-musical)
Visual (spatial)
Verbal (writing-speaking)
Kinesthetic (physical)
Social (interpersonal)
Solitary (intrapersonal)
Logical (mathematical)

Teachers often use a combination of these styles in class, but adapting at-home learning or study activities to your child’s strengths will help him or her excel. For example, if your child is an auditory learner, encourage him or her to practice other types of learning, but emphasize reading out loud, listening to music, etc.

Auditory Learners

Auditory learners thrive in situations where directions or lessons are spoken rather than written. They prefer listening to audiobooks rather than reading, or would rather give an oral report on something than write a report on it. Your child may be an auditory learner if he or she:

Likes background music when playing or trying to sleep
Talks to others or self frequently
Asks lots of questions
Enjoys reading aloud
Has difficulty understanding written instructions

If your child is an auditory learner, there are several learning strategies you can adapt in at-home work and studying. These include:

Using rhyming word games to help memorization
Reading aloud whenever possible
Use video or audio tapes instead of reading materials
Recite and repeat vocabulary or study materials with eyes closed
Talk through difficult areas
Working in a quiet environment or playing soft background music

Visual Learners

Visual learners excel when they have strong visual aids or examples included in their learning. They prefer charts, graphs, and pictures in their activities, and may work better after seeing a demonstration of what they’re supposed to do. Your child may be a visual learner if he or she:

Likes movies or TV better than reading, audiobooks, or music
Likes drawing, pictures, or art activities
Struggles with auditory directions or verbal instructions
Becomes impatient or disengaged when listening to something
Processes information better when it is displayed as a chart or graph

Visual learners will improve their learning and memorization with strategies like these:

Color coordinating notes and using different colored pens
Flashcards for study facts
Drawing diagrams or charts for memorization
Show problem solving when working with multi-step problems

Verbal

These learners are often grouped with visual learners, but while visual learners benefit from pictures, verbal learners prefer words through writing and speaking. They will like reading comprehension questions that directly relate to the passage they just read as well as interacting with the text. Your child may be a verbal learner if he or she:

Likes reading books or stories
Can recall information from something he or she read
Has trouble concentrating with auditory distractions
Doesn’t process oral or visual presentations well

Use strategies like the following to help your reading/writing–style child improve his or her study methods:

Copy notes by hand instead of typing
Repeat writing important information for memorization
Provide written instructions for activities
Keep notes organized with headings, titles, etc.
Write notes in the margins of readings

Kinesthetic Learners

Learning by doing is the best way for kinesthetic learners to learn. They will prefer hands-on activities and have a hard time sitting still while learning. They will learn better by doing and figuring it out for themselves rather than watching someone else do it. Your child may be a kinesthetic learner if he or she:

Has difficulty processing reading or auditory material
Likes sports, science experiments, or other hands-on activities
Likes study activities and games
Likes puzzles or figuring things out independently

For these types of learners, try the following study strategies:

Play study games instead of using flashcards
Create practice tests to simulate test environment
Act out situations instead of reading about them
Use movement or whiteboards for studying activities instead of sitting still

Social Learners

Students who are social learners will process and understand better when working in a group. Group activities and projects, as opposed to individual work, will benefit these types of learners. This has more to do with the setting they thrive in rather than the style of learning. They can be visual, auditory, or other learners as well. Your child may be a social learner if he or she:

Gravitates toward groups
Is extroverted
Naturally assumes a leadership role in a group
Learns and performs better in group settings

For these learners, practice some of the following activities and learning strategies:

Form study groups with friends and classmates
Play group games
Work/study in partners
Repeat information back to a partner instead of writing it out

Solitary Learners

Solitary learners prefer working independently rather than in groups; this is the setting they prefer, whether they are auditory, visual, or reading/writing learners. This style of learner will focus better when working individually. Your child may be a solitary learner if he or she:

Works faster, better, and more efficiently alone.
Is generally independent
Behaves privately
Has a hard time concentrating in busy areas or loud groups

Use study strategies like the following for your solitary learners:

Provide quiet or independent study time, especially in stressful or busy environments
Provide lots of visual and reading/writing materials for your learners, so they have plenty to work on individually
Limit group projects or work so as to not overwhelm your students
Encourage your learners to work individually but share with a partner or group

Logical Learners

Logical learners benefit from mathematical learning activities and will prefer logical processes to abstract ones. Logical learners may benefit from both individual and group settings. Logical learners will exhibit the following:

Strong pattern and number recognition
Interest and talent in math and science
Difficulty with creative or abstract subjects
Understanding of statistics or facts

Encourage the following strategies to help your logical learners:

Include puzzles, numbers, or statistics whenever possible
Make vocabulary into a crossword puzzle
Develop systems or patterns in all subject areas to help logical students process information

Helping students recognize what study strategies work for them will help develop study habits and patterns that will help them down the line. It’s also important to note that not every child has just one learning style and that children will need help figuring out what works best for them by testing out different strategies. Observe your child in a working environment and play games to figure out what works best!

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August 31, 2020
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Main Idea and Details and Tips to Teach It

Identifying the main idea of a text is the first step in learning to summarize important information. In addition to being one of the most important reading comprehension skills, it is also one of the most difficult to teach and for students to understand. Mastering main idea and details will serve as a foundation as students are assigned more advanced reading and must draw out the main idea. This then builds to complex analysis, making it crucial that students start practicing this skill at a young age.

Below are some tips and resources that will help you teach the main idea and details of a text and improve students’ reading comprehension. These strategies for helping students identify main idea and details are from Evan-Moor’s Reading Comprehension Fundamentals for grades 1–6.

What Is a Main Idea and Why Is It Important?

The main idea of a paragraph, story, or book is the overall “big idea” that the reader should walk away with. This could be a lesson, a moral, or just a concept. The main idea you get from a short story is going to be very different from the main idea you get from a passage in your history textbook. It’s important that students grasp the main idea, because without it, they cannot fully understand what they have just read. It is also the piece that completes the puzzle of all the other details in the story, tying them all together. Understanding how to identify the main idea is the first step is helping children learn to summarize what they read.

Tips for Finding the Main Idea

Summarization: Break the reading into chunks, whether it’s by sentence, paragraph, section, etc., and have your students summarize each chunk of text. This will help make the reading more manageable, and will help narrow down important details that support the main idea.
Highlight and Make Notes: If your students have access to the material in a hard copy format that they can write on, encourage them to highlight important details and cross out unimportant ones as they go. Post-It notes are great for note-taking in a school library book. Keep a pad nearby so children can make a note on a page without marking up the text. This is a great exercise for narrowing down the possibilities for the main idea.
Process of Elimination: If your students are having trouble finding the main idea, have them come up with 3 or 4 ideas of what it may be, then one by one see if each one connects to all other pieces of the story. Is it supported by other details? Does it connect all pieces together? If it doesn’t, it’s not the main idea. Keep doing this until one fits.
Look for Important Repetitive Phrases: Using the highlighting method, circle (or write down) repetitive key phrases. For instance, if one phrase, word, or idea is repeated a lot, it is probably very important, and will help determine what the main idea is.
Use Headings and Subheadings as Clues: Using passages with titles or subheadings is a good place to start, as it provides an inherent clue. The main idea of a passage is directly related to the title of the passage or the heading it lies under. This will help narrow down important details to find the main idea.
Find Supporting Details: The main idea will be supported by many other details in the story, and these details will “prove” why your choice is the main idea. Practice finding these as well as the main idea, as they will become increasingly important in reading comprehension and writing. Finding supporting details will also make finding the main idea easier.

Download a free main idea and supporting details worksheet from Reading Comprehension Fundamentals here.

If you’re reading with your children at home, you can help them learn to identify main idea and details by asking these questions:

What is the topic sentence? Most of the time (but not always), the main idea is stated in the topic sentence of a paragraph or essay. Ask your child to re-read the first sentence or paragraph of their reading text to see if the author points out what topic he or she will be discussing.
What is the lesson? It is easier to identify the main idea in a nonfiction article than in a piece of fiction. If you are reading fiction, ask your child what the moral or lesson in the story is.
Can you connect writing to reading? Remind your children about the format they use when they write a paragraph. They can make a connection between where they insert their topic sentence and supporting details and where main ideas are located in a text.

Practice Clue Games

To get your students thinking about clues as supporting details, make a mystery bag.
Inside this bag will be several items that all relate to one main idea.
For example: flour, eggs, frosting, cake mix.
Pull each of these items out one by one and have your students try to determine what the main idea is.
These items are all connected by the idea of “making a cake.”
This is the main idea; the things in the bag are the supporting details.

Reading Comprehension Fundamentals Grades 1–6

Reading Comprehension Fundamentals covers all the foundational elements in reading fiction and nonfiction writing. It teaches skills and strategies such as: fiction and nonfiction texts, genre studies, author’s purpose, inferences, main idea and details, compare and contrast, and more! These units practice different strategies to find common themes in passages that range in length and difficulty.

Download free sample lessons for Reading Comprehension Fundamentals here.

Improving reading comprehension will help your students excel in all subject areas, and being able to identify main ideas based on supporting details will become a crucial skill throughout their educational career. As your students advance to more difficult readings, having the foundational skills to help them fully understand what they’re reading will help them succeed.

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August 18, 2020
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Why Reading Nonfiction Is Important and How to Teach It – Free Reading Comprehension Lessons

Reading nonfiction makes up the majority of the reading curriculum, from kindergarten all the way through high school. Students’ classes outside of English, such as science, history, or math, use primarily nonfiction texts to teach content, making nonfiction reading an essential skill. Recently, education standards have put a greater emphasis on nonfiction reading, but teaching it can be difficult, especially in the younger grades. Here are some tips and resources to help you teach nonfiction reading comprehension strategies successfully.

Why Is Nonfiction Reading Important?

Being able to successfully read and comprehend nonfiction text becomes increasingly important as children advance to higher grade levels. They’ll find that through high school and college, the majority of their daily reading is nonfiction, and being able to analyze and understand it will be a key factor in their success.

Taps Children’s Interest: Nonfiction will also appeal to students who are interested in areas other than English, and will improve their overall reading skills. Students who don’t enjoy reading fiction will find that nonfiction appeals to their interests, and thus will be more motivated to read daily because they’ve found a topic they enjoy reading about.
Builds Knowledge: Reading nonfiction builds social and global knowledge at an early age and connects children of different nationalities because it enables them to learn about each other’s homes and cultures.
Academic Vocabulary: Important vocabulary that children will use in their writing and speech often comes from reading nonfiction. While fiction provides casual vocabulary and speech patterns, nonfiction usually provides more elevated and formal language.

Strategies to Improve Kids’ Nonfiction Reading Comprehension

Reading Informational Text for grades 1–6 provides practice and strategies for developing nonfiction reading skills and comprehension. Below are listed tips and strategies from this teaching resource that are great for at-home practice or teaching activities for the classroom. Nonfiction reading articles and comprehension strategies in each grade level provide reading topics on multiple subjects such as geography, biology, social studies and more.

Text Structure: Start by teaching children the characteristics of nonfiction text, such as text structure. This means students will be able to recognize nonfiction text based on characteristics such as headings, maps or charts, indexes, etc. Learning this distinction will help increase overall reading comprehension.
Determine Importance: Main Idea vs. Interesting Details: With all reading, determining the main idea of a text and its supporting details will help children fully comprehend the text. Use headings and charts to help determine what the most important details of the text are. Often, a good question for a child to answer is:
“Why did the author write this?” or
“What was his or her purpose?”
Ask Questions: As students read, have them write down questions they may have. This will develop their overall comprehension of the reading and enhance their understanding of the content.
Use Visual Notetaking to Organize Information: Obtain hard copies of the text that students can highlight, underline, and take notes on. Being able to separate and organize information as they read will help with their comprehension and keep longer texts manageable. This is also useful for finding main ideas.
Summing It All Up: Either by section, paragraph, or chapter, have students write a short summary about what that section was about. This will help them find main ideas and important details and quickly review key aspects of the text.
3-2-1 Strategy: As a class or individually, after reading the text, have students write down 3 things they discovered, 2 interesting things, and 1 question about the topic. This will increase their understanding of the topic, improve comprehension, and maintain interest.

Reading Comprehension Fundamentals for grades 1–6 provides the perfect balance of fiction and nonfiction texts and systematically teaches skills and strategies to help children practice important comprehension concepts.

Download free sample lessons of Reading Comprehension Fundamentals here.

Nonfiction reading makes up a good majority of daily reading as students grow and advance, so don’t wait to start teaching them these valuable skills! Use different strategies and topics to keep students engaged in their reading, whether it is nonfiction or fiction.

For additional nonfiction reading resources check out Nonfiction Reading Practice for grades 1-6.

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August 17, 2020
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How to Teach PreK at Home with Evan-Moor

Becoming your child’s preschool teacher is an academic extension of what you already do as a parent: teach. As a parent, you already have experience teaching your child, and teaching preschool at home is not incredibly different. The key to transitioning from parenting to at-home preschool teacher is to be engaging, structured, and flexible! The best way to foster a love of learning at home is to guide children through hands-on activities and give them opportunities to explore and express themselves. The following tips, tricks, and activities will inspire your own at-home, well-organized, and engaging preschool curriculum.

1. Establish a Daily Schedule

Having a routine or schedule is vital to ensuring a successful learning-at-home environment. Especially with preschoolers, timing and routine are important to get the most out of their attention spans. Typically a preschooler’s attention span is only 15 minutes, so your learning schedule should consist of a recommended three 15-minute-long learning sessions, broken up by equally long breaks that focus on movement or hands-on activities (examples given below).

While making your daily learning schedule, include your child in the process so he or she understands the importance of the routine. This will also help establish your role as teacher in the home setting, and ensure your child feels like he or she is in a learning environment. When constructing your schedule, remember to incorporate your other time demands, such as working from home or providing academic support for other children.

2. What Kind of Learner Is Your Child?

Determining the types of activities your child learns best from and incorporating these into your curriculum will reinforce positive learning experiences for your child. Does your child prefer visual aids? Hands-on? Auditory? If you’re not sure, ask your child the following questions:

What is your favorite thing to learn about?
Do you like art or outdoor activities better?
Do you like hearing stories or watching movies better?

Pay attention to the answers and adjust your learning curriculum to fit your child’s needs. If your child is having trouble sitting still while learning, increase the frequency or duration of your movement breaks.

3. How to Start the Day

Beginning your child’s day with morning mindfulness is a great way to establish routine and prepare for learning. Transition into songs or chants about the alphabet or letters to provide a foundation for learning these concepts. Here are some examples of morning mindfulness:

Taking three deep breaths
Stretch up to the sky and down to your toes
Choose a positive theme statement and repeat it each morning; for example, “Learning makes my brain grow.”
Sing the alphabet song or chant the alphabet and say what sound each letter has, such as: “A” says /aaaa/, “B” says /bbbb/ etc.
If your child has the alphabet down, recite the alphabet, but for each letter, say a word that begins with that letter (a=apple, b=banana…).

4. What to Teach?

It can be overwhelming to plan a preschool curriculum by yourself. The basics are a great place to start. Begin your reading curriculum with the alphabet and beginning sounds and your math curriculum with basic counting 1–10. Add one letter and number each week until you have successfully incorporated all 26 letters and numbers 1–10.

Sample Preschool Curriculum

Evan-Moor’s Homeschool Curriculum Bundles PreK provides everything your child needs for practice of essential skills for preschool (ages 4–5 years). The fun illustrations, interesting themes, art projects, and hands-on and written activities will keep your child engaged in learning important PreK skills—and get ready for kindergarten! Each bundle includes:
- 11 colorful activity books and flashcards
- Activities that cover basic foundational skills for reading, writing, language, math, science, geography, and critical thinking.
- Downloadable Homeschool Teaching Guide with teaching tips and activity ideas.

Activity Books to Enhance Your Preschool At Home

Early learning resources are not hard to find, but finding the one that best fits you and your child’s needs is important. Here are some links and descriptions for Evan-Moor’s early learning workbooks:

Skill Sharpeners: Reading for PreK provides basic reading exercises, focusing on one letter at a time. Within these fun and colorful activity pages are reading comprehension, vocabulary, phonetics, and other fundamental skills to practice reading basics.
Skill Sharpeners: Math for the PreK level introduces numbers 1–10 in short educational activity pages. Each unit has a theme to keep things interesting and provides excellent math practice at home.
Skill Sharpeners: Science uses songs, rhymes, and hands-on projects to teach preschoolers about different types of science! They’ll learn about life science, earth science, and physical science, all with fun activities and simple concepts that they’ll see in their daily lives.
Skill Sharpeners: Grammar and Punctuation for PreK provides fundamental instruction on grammar and punctuation concepts like types of words, periods, and capitalization. Using riddles and word games, the workbook presents and practices these fundamental concepts for early learners.
Smart Start series: The Smart Start series for PreK presents three different workbooks, each focusing on a different subject area. These activity books specialize in early learners and supply a balance of fun activities and worksheets. Check out each title below:

5. Hands-on Learning Activities

Though including workbooks in an at-home curriculum is important, teaching such a young age group means that a balance of materials is essential. Preschoolers have a very short attention span, so overdoing it on hard copies of worksheets may turn them off to learning. It’s important that you include plenty of hands-on activities to balance out your workbook load. Check out some of the learning activities we recommend below:

Scavenger hunt: A small scavenger hunt can be adapted for any type of preschool learning! Place numbers, colors, or animals throughout the house or yard and have a scavenger hunt to find them. This will practice recognition of each color or animal. Practice counting the number of items you find. You can also say the name of the animal and identify the letter of the alphabet it starts with.
Practice letters with playdough: Create tactile learning experiences by using playdough to form alphabet letters.
Sorting colors: Use a pack of colorful items such as pompoms, M&Ms, skittles, etc., and pour them all out on a table or plate. Practice naming colors and sorting them into piles, and then practice counting each pile. This will also practice fine motor skills. Once your child understands numbers 1–5, you can have him or her count out 1–5 of each item.
Music time: One-on-one music time between parent and child is an excellent activity! It’s hands-on and engaging and can get them interested in music. Create your own instruments with paper plates, cups, and dried beans.
For more hands-on learning for preschoolers, check out the blogs linked below.

Kindergarten Readiness Checklist: What Does My Child Need to Know for Kindergarten?

6. Creative Time

Designate time that is specifically for your child to express his or her creativity. This can be time when you are doing something else nearby, or working alongside your child, but encourage your child to work independently in order to express him- or herself. Here are some ideas for creative time:

Drawing or coloring
Making or playing homemade instruments
Building with blocks or Legos
Molding with playdough or clay
Alphabet Puppets: Create fun puppets for each alphabet letter your child learns.
Jumbo Fun with the Alphabet: Introduce letters and letter sounds with the fun hands-on activities provided in this e-book.
Paper Tube Zoo: Create animal-themed art in this fun hands-on activity! Act out a story with your paper tube zoo!

7. Exercise

Exercise and movement breaks are essential in at-home learning. Pay attention to your child’s preferences and schedule your movement breaks around when he or she has the most energy. Movement breaks can be a number of things, depending on what your child enjoys. Maybe your child enjoys running around alone in the backyard, or perhaps being sociable with family members and exercising together is preferable. Cater to your child’s needs to maximize these movement breaks and leave your child ready to learn again.

You can also use your exercise time to practice math or science. For example:

Hopscotch and counting
Counting things in nature like flowers, bushes, trees, etc.
Observing animals and nature outside
Set out colored or numbered cones. When you call one out, your child has to race to that cone! Great for awareness and recognition.
Play Simon Says with active commands like “hop,” “jump,” “run,” etc.
Jump rope and count your jumps!

8. Social and Emotional Learning

When children are out of their normal routine and without a traditional school setting, it’s important that they are properly managing stress or anxiety. Provide your child with a notebook or journal where he or she can draw and have quiet time during the day when he or she can reflect about the day. This small and simple activity will help provide stress relief.

9. Read, Read, and Read Aloud!

Reading aloud is one of the most important parts of forming language skills for early learners. Schedule daily read-aloud time for you and your child (or other family members) to help form vocabulary and a love of reading. Children will also start to recognize what fluent and expressive reading sounds like. Here are some of our favorite read aloud books: (include book title images: these are already in WP from another blog)

Chicka Chicka Boom Boom by Bill Martin, Jr. and John Archambault: This fun book introduces children to sounds and letters and provides an opportunity to practice letter sounds and recognition.

If You Give a Mouse a Cookie by Laura Joffe Numeroff: Enjoy colorful illustrations that pair with this fun story about a small mouse.

Franklin and the Tooth Fairy by Paulette Bourgeois: Franklin is a character in a series of children’s stories and often faces problems that most children may face. In this story, Franklin is frustrated because all his friends are losing teeth and he is not. These stories help provide children with coping strategies and stress relief.

My First Bob Books: Pre-Reading Skills by Lynn Maslen Kertell: This is a beginning reader book for young children who haven’t begun to read yet! It fosters young readers and beginning reading skills and encourages a love of reading.

Mixed by Arree Chung: This is a fascinating story about how separated colors, upset by something one of the other colors said, finally join together and make beautiful new colors. This is a great story about diversity and working together.

Thank You, Mr. Panda by Steve Antony: This is a book about gift giving and showing gratitude, and really displays the sentiment of “it’s the thought that counts.” Along with colorful illustrations, this is an excellent story.

Teaching preschool at home can be overwhelming, challenging, and exhausting. The good news is that it’s really hard to mess up! Just focus on spending time with your child in a scheduled and structured way, going over the basics and spending lots of time reading and being creative.

Check out 10 Tips for Teaching Kindergarten at Home with Evan-Moor

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August 17, 2020
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How to Make a Virtual Kids’ Book Club for Grades 3–4

With schools closed or only partially open, you may be struggling with providing safe and productive interactions for your child with friends and classmates. One solution is to create a pandemic book club for your child and his or her friends or classmates. This will keep your child reading in the absence of traditional classroom reading and will also provide some interaction between classmates. Depending on your city and comfort level, your child’s book club can be virtual or in pandemic pods.

Pandemic pods are the nickname for small groups of 3–6 children who get together for homework with a parent or tutor. Your pandemic pod can also meet virtually if that’s more comfortable or safe. You should also consider the following when forming your pandemic pod:

Is everyone around the same reading level? Check this so that all children can finish the book between meetings.
Give children between 30 and 60 days to finish the book, depending on the amount of reading they’re additionally assigned in school.
Not sure how much to read daily? The recommended reading is 30 minutes per night for grades 3–4.
Meet with parents to come up with comprehension, discussion, and reflection questions. If possible, read the book before doing so.
When your child finishes the book, meet virtually or safely in person with the kids and parents to discuss the questions created by parents.
Make book club a fun experience by providing themed snacks or treats, asking friends to dress like a character, suggesting a related art project, or watching a related movie.

Below are 10 suggestions for your Kids’ Pandemic Book Club for grades 3–4 level reading:

Charlotte’s Web by E.B. White: This classic story of love and friendship is a great book for your book club. This is a beginning chapter book, so your third or fourth graders should be able to read comfortably and independently.

Wonder by R.J. Palacio: Auggie, born with facial constructive differences, struggles to fit in. This is a more advanced chapter book, but tells the story of being yourself and acceptance. Wonder is an excellent addition to your book club, and will inspire reflective thinking in your children.

Esperanza Rising by Pam Muñoz Ryan: This is a coming-of-age novel that follows Esperanza as her family is forced to flee from their ranch in Mexico and travel to California. This eye-opening story will educate and inspire children about rising above challenges and adversity.

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl: A classic chapter book of imaginative and colorful storytelling, this is one of Dahl’s most popular children’s novels. Explore your child’s own imagination in accompaniment with this book, and bring the story to life with yummy treats at your pandemic book club meetings.

The Indian in the Cupboard by Lynne Reid Banks: This is a more advanced chapter book, but an entertaining tale of little figurines come to life; most notably, a small Native American figurine befriends a little boy. This novel explores racial stereotypes and prejudice and how they can be overcome.

How Tia Lola Came to Stay by Julia Alvarez: After Miguel’s parents split up and he moved to Vermont, his Tia Lola came from the Dominican Republic to lend a hand. Miguel is initially embarrassed by his tia, who doesn’t exactly fit in, but he soon realizes the importance of his culture. This short novel is a great illustration of diversity, living in two cultures, and cultural identity.

Magic Tree House by Mary Pope Osborne: This is not one novel but a series of chapter books that follow Jack and Annie, two siblings, as they travel through time. In any given story, they might be sailing the seas with Blackbeard or sitting at the round table with Camelot. This is a fun and classic chapter book that kids love.

If Kids Ran the World by Leo Dillon and Diane Dillon: Written by two-time Caldecott medalists, this book tells the story of kindness in a world where kids are in charge. This book celebrates diversity, kindness, forgiveness, and charity. The end of the novel also includes ways that kids can help others in today’s world if they’re inspired by the story.

Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster: Follow along with Milo, a young boy who embarks on a journey through a magical tollbooth. The world he enters is nothing like the one he left, and is full of imagination and interesting people. Explore imagination in your own world after reading this classic story.

The Boxcar Children by Gertrude Chandler Warner: If your children like adventure and mystery, they’ll love this chapter book series! Follow four siblings as they solve mystery after mystery, and fill your children’s head with curiosity and a drive to discover.

Once you have picked out your book for your book club, it’s recommended that you and other parents read it first. Doing so will give you a better grasp of the novel and the issues it explores, giving you a chance to approve it before your child reads it. Now that you’ve read it, create some questions that explore different parts of the novel. For example, if you pick Wonder, your questions could look something like this:

Why does Auggie think he doesn’t fit in?
What could Auggie’s classmates have done differently to show more compassion?
How do Auggie’s parents use humor and comedy throughout the book?
Have you ever felt like you haven’t fit in? Explain.
Have you ever noticed someone else who had a hard time making friends? What did you do in that situation?
What would you have done if you were Auggie? Would you feel the same, or would you feel differently?
What do you think the main message of Wonder is?

Providing a mix of comprehension and reflective questions to your pandemic book club will help your children not only understand the book, but the message it’s trying to deliver. Fleshing that out in a discussion will help children carry this message (in Wonder’s case, about being yourself and showing compassion to others) into the real world, and will translate in their thoughts and actions.

If your child is having difficulty reading by him- or herself, turn book club reading into a family activity, reading aloud to your child. This will help your child process the issues or information being presented more effectively.

A Pandemic Book Club is just one solution to children’s decreased social interaction, but this is a great opportunity to discuss real-world issues with children. Include both classic novels, like Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, and other novels that explore diversity, like Esperanza Rising or Wonder, to provide a well-rounded after-school curriculum for your child. Whether virtually, social distanced, or in pandemic pods, providing this activity for your child will be fun, engaging, and educational.

Be sure to check out How to Make a Virtual Kid’s Book Club for Grades 5-6

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August 17, 2020
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How to Make a Virtual Kid’s Book Club for Grades 5-6

Finding a productive activity to stave off your child’s pandemic-induced boredom just got easier! Make your very own pandemic kids’ book club with your child’s classmates and friends! This is a fun activity that will keep children busy, entertained, and provide quality reading time that they may not be getting with online or hybrid schooling. The first step to forming your own book club is getting a group together, which can be done virtually or in pandemic pods.

Pandemic pods are small groups of 3-6 children that get together to do homework or discuss a book with a parent or tutor. It is rising in popularity to provide students with safe social interaction with classmates and an imitation of a traditional school setting. Pandemic pods can meet virtually according to your county’s safety regulations, but regardless of how you meet, here are a few things to consider when creating your pandemic book club pod:

Ensure that the children in your pandemic pod are around the same reading level so that they can all comfortably finish the assigned book.
Give children 30 or more days to finish the book, depending on how much reading they are additionally assigned in school.
If you’re struggling to set a pace for your child, the recommended reading for grades 4-5 is 30 minutes daily.
Meet with parents remotely to discuss comprehension and reflective questions that you can ask your child when they’re done with the book.
If possible, read the book before your child does.
When the children finish the book, meet safely or virtually to discuss the questions, both comprehensive and reflective.
Make Book Club a fun experience by providing themed snacks or treats, asking friends to dress like a character, suggesting a related art project, or watching a related movie.

Below are 10 suggestions for the 4th-5th grade reading level book club:

Percy Jackson by Rick Riordan: This book series brings history and fantasy to life in an entertaining book series. The book follows 12-year old Percy as he discovers that he is part of a world he thought was fake: Greek mythology. Percy brings the reader on adventures and his quest to save the day; this book series is great for readers who like fiction.

Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis: This is a seven-book series that follows four siblings as they stumble into a world of knights, adventure, and magical animals. This is a fantasy book series that never fails to entertain children. After your child has read the book, reward them with a movie viewing party of the film adaptation!

I am Malala by Malala Yousafzai: This autobiography tells the story of Malala’s incredible heroism, just a young girl who stands up to the Taliban in a fight for women’s rights. This is an incredibly inspirational true story that will inspire children everywhere to stand up for what’s right, and is especially impactful for young girls in their own journeys.

Hatchet by Gary Paulsen: Thirteen year old Brian is left stranded in a Canadian forest after his two-man plane goes down and he is the only survivor. Equipped with just a hatchet and his wits, Brian must fight to survive long enough to be rescued. Follow his efforts in this exciting survivalist novel.

Ghost by Jason Reynolds: Ghost is just a young middle school kid, running away from his problems and his past. When he is placed on an elite track team with other kids who are vastly different from each other, he must fight his past to compete in the Junior Olympics. This is a great story of diversity, adversity, and embracing one’s past.

Harry Potter by J.K. Rowling: This classic chapter book that brings magic to life is always a hit for kids. Follow 11 year old orphan Harry as he discovers his real identity, and it leads him on countless adventures in the magical world. This seven book series will keep your child entertained for months, and is paired with excellent film adaptations as rewards for reading!

Out of My Mind by Sharon M. Draper: Meet Melony, an 11 year old genius who has cerebral palsy. Despite having a photographic memory and being the smartest kid in school, Melony struggles to show or tell anyone because of her disability. This is an excellent addition to your book club and educates children on disabilities and empathy.

Nancy Drew by Carolyn Keene: Nancy Drew is a hometown detective, famous in her small city for her ability to solve crimes and mysteries that left the police stumped! With her best friends by her side, Nancy takes on mystery after mystery in this massive book series.

Hardy Boys by Franklin W. Dixon: Meet the Hardy Boys, the male counterparts of Nancy Drew. The Hardy Boys are two brothers who take on their own mysteries in their hometown and other cities who ask their help. If your child enjoys this series or Nancy Drew, check out the crossover stories called Super Mystery.

Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O’Dell: In the 19th century, a 12 year old Native American girl is left stranded on a small island off the coast of California. This historical fiction novel tells her story of survival, and is loosely based on a true story of a brave young woman named Juana Maria.

Once you’ve selected a book for your kid’s book club, it’s recommended that you read it first. In addition to being able to come up with better questions for your book club, it also gives parents a chance to understand the issues presented in the book, and approve it for your children. To prepare for the book club, come up with a list of questions, some comprehensive and some reflective, so your child can not only understand the novel but learn from it in a real-world sense. Some examples of questions for Harry Potter are:

Why is Harry so surprised when everyone in the magical world knows his name?
Why did Harry grow up with his aunt and uncle? How did they treat him?
Was it better for Harry to grow up not knowing who he was? Why or why not?
What was Harry’s reaction Christmas morning when he woke up with presents? Why did he react this way?
Why was Hermione upset, and how did she end up in the bathroom with the troll?
Have you ever known someone who had a hard time making friends?
How can you do little kindnesses to make someone’s day better?
At the end of the book, how did each of the trio’s talents come into play? What does that tell you about how everyone is different and unique?

Make reading time easier or more fun for your child by turning book club reading into read-a-loud for the family! This will also help them understand the book better because they can ask questions as they read.

Pandemic Book Club within your pandemic pods is just a supplemental form of social interaction for children during COVID, but it can be highly beneficial. In addition to achieving the recommended reading time per day, your child will get to interact with the reading in a fun and new way. With a mix of classic novels, like Nancy Drew, adventurous fiction, like Percy Jackson, and books that teach real-world problems, like Ghost, your child will learn valuable lessons through reading.

Be sure to check out How to Make a Virtual Kids’ Book Club for Grades 3–4

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August 4, 2020
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How to Homeschool with Evan-Moor

There are so many “right” ways to homeschool using Evan-Moor resources, but don’t take our word for it!

We’re thrilled to highlight just a few of the videos that homeschoolers have shared showing how easy and fun it is to use Evan-Moor resources with their kids.

How to Homeschool with TeacherFileBox

Tanya from Project Happy Home on YouTube uses Evan-Moor’s TeacherFileBox, an online subscription-based lesson library designed to allow homeschoolers to personalize their curriculum for multiple children.

Learn how she builds and saves her curriculum within TeacherFileBox!

Head on over to Project Happy Home to learn more about how Tanya creates her children’s curriculum.

How to Homeschool Multiple Kids

Kaylinn from Full Purpose and Heart on YouTube shares how her family uses Evan-Moor’s Daily series and Skill Sharpeners series in their homeschooling.

She also shares some great organizational tips to help everyone stay focused and finish the assignments – especially when teaching multiple children. Plus, you can peek at her cute homeschool room in the background.

You can find the budget-friendly Evan-Moor resources Kaylinn mentions in her video here:
Skill Sharpeners series
Daily series
Literature Pockets
Homeschool Bundles

Head over to Full Purpose and Heart’s video on YouTube to learn more.

How to Homeschool Spelling

Kelly from @homeschoolbythebeach on Instagram has multiple reviews of Evan-Moor books she uses in her homeschooling.

In her “How to Homeschool Spelling with Evan-Moor” video, Kelly shows you what she loves about Building Spelling Skills and Skill Sharpeners: Spell and Write. She shows you exactly how she uses each title, as well as, how she uses her TeacherFileBox subscription for budget-friendly curriculum resources.

Check out Kelly’s video on IGTV.

How to Homeschool Preschool (with or without Special Needs)

If your child has special needs (even as a pre-schooler), Natasha from Educational Roots shows exactly how to teach your child using Evan-Moor resources in her YouTube video.

She even shares ideas for hands-on activities and has a free download of her lesson planner that you can use right away!

Watch Natasha’s video, where she specifically talks about teaching preschoolers with these Evan-Moor titles:
Top Student PreK
Smart Start: Read and Write PreK
Smart Start: STEM PreK

How to Homeschool Language Arts

De-Shaun with @littlelearnerandmom on IGTV shares how she homeschools with Evan-Moor’s Fundamentals series and Daily series. You’ll appreciate the peek at her lesson planner, too.

De-Shaun shares why she doesn’t use some resource books from front to back, and how applying language skills outside the curriculum is important.

Another thing that she celebrated is how her child has overcome his math weakness and does Evan-Moor’s Daily Math Practice on the weekends and while out and about. Isn’t that great?

Watch Little Learner and Mom’s video to see how these resources work well in her homeschooling:
Language Fundamentals
Daily Math Practice
Daily Reading Comprehension

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How to Homeschool Science

Andrea from No Mommy Left Behind on YouTube shares how she teaches hands-on science in her YouTube video with Science Lessons and Investigations.

She explains her kids’ reactions and insights with the hands-on experiments and how each step of the unit helps deepen kids’ understanding on the science concepts.

You can learn more about Science Lessons and Investigations here.

Homeschool Subject Bundles Make It Easy

These are just a few of many videos shared on social media on how to homeschool with Evan-Moor resources. We want homeschooling to be fun and engaging for you and your child.

In fact, we’ve made it super easy for you by bundling (and discounting) our top homeschool books by subject for grades 1–6. Be sure to check out Evan-Moor’s Homeschool Subject Bundles!

If you’re looking for resources to teach a particular subject for homeschooling your child, we’d love to know. Leave us a comment to let us know how we can best support you!

Amy Michaels is a former teacher turned homeschooler. She creates fun learning activities based on popular children’s books. Connect with her at BookBrilliantKids.com