Free homeschool language arts printables and activities to keep kids writing when school’s cancelled.
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Back-to-school essentials | Your quick-click guide for preschool to college
Inspire successful learning with back to school essentials kids of all ages will love!
Homeschool writing centers from Pinterest
Pinterest has loads of ideas for permanent or portable writing centers to fit your teaching space!
Make a valentine mailbox
Here’s a fun way to spread some Valentine cheer among your kids! Make a Valentine Mailbox!
Teach teens how to write a business letter
In middle and high school, students should learn the basics of how to write a formal business letter.
More tips for stronger papers
With a few focused efforts, your teen’s essays and research papers will rise to the challenge.
4 tips for stronger papers
These tips for stronger essays and research papers will save hours of red-penciling later on!
Celebrating Children’s Book Week
THIS week, May 13-19, is Children’s Book Week. It’s the perfect time to revisit old favorites, and perhaps to add a few new titles to your family library. Of course, with new books pouring off the press every year, it can be hard to sort through all the rubbish. How’s...
Homeschooling, copyright, and consumable workbooks
Do you use workbooks in your homeschooling? How well do you understand copyright laws?
Help your child get published in a magazine
Help your child get published in a magazine. Encourage your creative son or daughter to learn more about the real-world publishing process.
Double space after periods? Just say no!
One space between sentences. I know, I know. Most of us who learned to type on one of those---whatchamacallit---typewriters have a thing for hitting the space bar twice. Unfortunately, that "two spaces" rule is going the way of the dinosaur. Modern word-processing...
12 favorite posts from 2012
The words are on everyone's lips: Where did 2012 go? I wonder that too. What a full, busy, interesting year! As I look back at the blog over this past year, I thought it would be fun to highlight each month's most popular post. Which was your favorite blog post during...
5 top vocabulary-building apps
BECAUSE WE associate smartphones with texting, it's easy to boil smartphone vocabulary down to a bunch of LOLs and BRBs. While that may be the case in the text-messaging world, it shouldn't give the handy phones a bad reputation as a whole. There are tons of...
8 writing ideas from Pinterest
WriteShop shares 8 fun writing ideas from Pinterest
8 favorite apps for language arts
Today's homeschoolers are finding that the use of technology and applications (apps) meld seamlessly with traditional textbooks and other educational tools. The following applications can be found in the Apple iTunes store. While these are paid apps, the fee...