Our youngest son is doing a great job on his journey to becoming a fluent reader. I've been surprised to see some of the words that he ...

Our kindergartner is starting to read. It's incredibly exciting. I cannot tell who's more proud: him or me. To introduce him to word...

Sight word BINGO. Hm. You're probably thinking haven't she already shared this activity?  Well, yes, I have. (See here .) But s...

Our almost six year old is starting kindergarten in less than a month. Where oh where did the summer go? We're still working on soundin...

Those little consonant-vowel-consonant (CVC) words are a great way for kids to practice phonics, listening for beginning and ending sound...

Having just made the Super Suffixes game , it was all too easy to use the same design to make prefix playing cards.  We played with these ...

It's been far too long since we played a language arts game. This one works on suffixes, those endings that are added to a word or a ...

Conjunctions are joiners or connectors that bring together words, phrases, and clauses. A few of these important words follow: And Bu...

It can be a real struggle to remember what to capitalize when you're eight years old. And since grammar doesn't stick like math...

Learning letters has been a challenge for my little guy and while he's getting a fair amount of practice in preschool, it just isn...

Spelling can be B-O-R-I-N-G. Practice consists of me saying the word and my son reciting the letters … blah, blah, blah …. yadda, yadda, ...

Say that three times fast. The apostrophe is SUCH a hard working piece of punctuation. To review how it's used in contractions ...

I've been working hard to feed our boys healthier snacks and lately, there's no snack requested more than popcorn. I even whipped...

What is it about stamps? I've known for years that the most mundane learning activities seem less of a chore when there's an in...