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In many states, standardized testing is becoming a requirement for homeschooled students. This article explores the rationale for this movement and suggests what the future for homeschool reading programs may present.

Preparing our homeschool students for later life will include training them in a variety of skills in addition to teaching the basic core subjects in an educational sense.

No matter what method is used to teach reading, learners need some form of practice and educators need to have a viable method of assessing progress. Although many homeschooling parents shy away from the use of worksheets and practice sheets when teaching reading, both can be viable aids when used properly.

Do you have a pre-schooler who is begging you to teach them how to read? If you want to guide your young child through the rewarding process of learning to read, here are some steps you can take to make the transition smooth.

Tamara Chilver shares different ways to spice up your child’s reading time.

There is hardly anything better than reading to open the doors to the entire universe of experiences. There is hardly anything more valuable that a parent can give to a child for the long run than an appreciation of reading.

One of the greatest desires of homeschool parents is to encourage a reading habit in their children. When our children are just babies we start reading to them. We bring our schedules under control so that we will have time to stop our routines and sit down to read. I know this isn’t easy, it isn’t easy for me either. Somehow the tyranny of the urgent can keep us from getting done all the important things we want to do.

Have you ever thought about having your child read the classics but didn’t know where to begin?

How dysgraphia relates to dyslexia and how sequencing affects both.

Although reading readiness is highly variable among children, there are quite a few steps that parents and educators can take to determine when they are read. And, perhaps more important for the adults than the children, there are also steps that can be taken to shorten that time.