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Teaching about Capital Letters

The terms “uppercase” and “lowercase” refer to the old days of typesetting when some letters were kept higher, in the upper cases, and others were kept in the lower cases. This is a cool bit of trivia for us parents, but try explaining this concept to your little student and you’ll get a blank look in return. I ran into this while teaching my daughter, my firstborn. Then I tried the whole “big letter, little letter” approach, but that didn’t work, either. The letters were nearly the same size—what do you mean, this one’s a big letter and that one’s … Continue reading →

Matching Teaching and Learning Styles

In any classroom, there will be students who easily understand and comprehend everything a teacher is communicating. There are also students who struggle to follow the teacher’s instructions. There was a time when this inability to understand the teacher was misinterpreted as as learning disability. The truth is that in these cases it is more likely that the teaching style of the instructor doesn’t match the students learning style. While one teacher cannot adapt their teaching style to meet the learning styles of everyone, In the homeschool environment adapting is much easier. The first thing a homeschool parent must do … Continue reading →