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Thanks to our readers who joined in on the fun for our October Lesson Idea Contest! We had some wonderful entries via email and it was tough to choose just three winners…but here they are:
1st Place - A Year Subscription to Highlights Magazine : Congrats to Rachel for sharing how she used Stump The Teacher [...]
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Halloween is just around the corner which means October is almost at an end…as well as our Lesson Idea Contest. I’ve gotten a couple of really good entries from our readers! However, they were submitted as emails instead of comments or blog posts, so I will be adding them to our site as comments for [...]
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Another great gift card to Abunga.com has been given away. Congrats to our September Giveaway Winner!!!
Didn’t win? No worries…our next contest starts now!
October Lesson Idea Contest: I hope you’ve had some time to try out some of our Lesson Ideas for this month’s contest. If not, you’ll still have the month of October to [...]
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I hope everyone enjoyed the long weekend! Our thoughts are with all of those that are being affected by Gustav.
This week’s Literacy Lowdown offers some cool resources that you’ll be sure to use again and again. Have fun browsing…
Book Hooked: Do you remember that first book that really got your interest? The one that made [...]
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First of all, thanks to everyone who participated in our August giveaway by subscribing to Reading Coach Online! We’ve randomly chosen and notified our winner for the Abunga
gift card (Congratulations!), and we’re even doing another Gift Card Giveaway in September to give everyone else another chance to win. Don’t worry, September’s giveaway is open [...]
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I love this show! Even though PBS’s Read Between The Lions has been around for seven seasons, I always like to refer parents to it just in case they don’t know it exists. It’s a show that can do a lot to add to your child’s reading skills. Here are some of the things you’ll [...]
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We’ve had a great week here at Reading Coach…we’ve nearly doubled our readers! We’re getting a lot of great emails and comments from you guys - sharing your stories and asking some really good questions (I’ll soon turn some of those into a post). People are passing us around and we’re getting in contact with [...]
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We’ve received a couple of emails from people who are interested in starting up their own blogs to write about their kids’ progress and don’t know where to get started. It’s pretty easy actually. Just head over to WordPress and register. It’s ABSOLUTELY FREE and very easy to use. You’ll be writing [...]
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I made this game up when I was a teacher in the hopes of creating an interest for independent reading in my kids and also for improving their comprehension skills during independent reading. I introduced it as a contest because, if I’m honest, I knew that was the only way I was going to get [...]
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Check out this week’s reading roundup for some cool posts from other homeschoolers…happy reading!
Dawn at Day by Day Discoveries has discovered that reading is the key to her daughter’s success with math problems - and that they’re actually fun now!
Yielded Heart shares her tools for organizing her homeschool…she really likes making reading logs for her [...]