The Red Breve

We know from research that when the brain is active and engaged while learning, learning moves to long-term memory, and it sticks. Why not take some time on the sunshiney summer days to review reading skills in a fun and active way and thus grow strong reading branches?

I didn’t know then everything I now know about reading. It’s hard not to feel a sense of guilt when I realize how many students I might have been able to help had I known what I know now. But we can’t teach what we don’t know.

I stopped torture reading with the boys and went back to reading books aloud to them…Within three months, something amazing happened: they began reading chapter books! They read The Chronicles of Narnia, Warrior, and Redwall. They loved reading! At the time I wondered, how was that possible?

Memorizing words, guessing definitions, looking for synonyms, and watching Netflix® (with subtitles, of course) should not be the only way children or adults learn English. For me, Uncovering the Logic of English was the missing piece of a forgotten puzzle.

I am not sure why it took me so long to realize that I was literally tripping over the solution. Right in the middle of the living room floor was a magnetic drawing board.

He stomps around the room, growling, and gnashing his terrible teeth. He loves to tell me, with a gleam in his eye, that he is MY "wild child."...Homeschooling a child like this is not easy…[but] my child isn’t strange. He is creative, and wild, and oh so bright. He needs to be engaged, and the Foundations program does a fantastic job of doing just that.

Whether you are looking for innovative ways to introduce all the sounds of A-Z or need an accessible tool that contains R-controlled vowels, the Logic of English Free Resources are perfect for teaching phonics to anyone!