Reading With Your Ears Offers Grace to Young Readers

My son has always loved to read.  When he was little, I didn’t see myself as his teacher-I was still in the mindset of counting down the time until he started Kindergarten.  It wasn’t my job to teach him to read.  We just read a lot together because I love to read.  After he started…

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What made our last road trip the easiest we’ve ever taken!

Last year at a homeschool bookfair, a friend of mine introduced me to Chuck Black’s Kingdom series. I went back and forth between purchasing the paperbacks or the audio books, but I decided that since we were going on a road trip, that this might be a great way to enhance our trip.  There are…

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What’s on My Bookshelf: Top 10 Page turners!

I’ve added affiliate links below, which means by purchasing through these links, the price doesn’t change, but I would receive a little compensation for pointing you in their direction.  All of my opinions stay the same with or without your purchase.   We love to read together, but Trying to keep up with what my…

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What is a Commonplace Book?

Recently I realized how often I quote movies.  I grew up in the age of an amazing invention:  the VCR.  This meant I could spend hours watching and re-watching any great movie I came upon.   Don’t get me wrong.  I was an avid reader as well….of Nancy Drew and Sweet Valley High.  But those…

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