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Review: Short Vowel Phonics

Some children understand reading easily and quickly.  Others struggle, needing a lot of support.  Inevitably, parents of struggling readers look for helpful resources, but it?s surprising how little is available for those who truly need help.  To fill this gap, Patricia J. Norton, a physician, mother of a struggling reader, and reading tutor created the […]

Review: Rob and Roland Readers

How often haven’t I opened an easy reader at the library and returned it to the shelf in disgust!  Many of them are silly, and some are also ugly.  That’s why I’m so pleased with these two little books about the adventures of Rob, a grade two boy living in the Netherlands.      Rob […]

Review: Time4Learning

    As I mentioned earlier, we have been trying out Time4Learning free for a month in order to review it.  Our month is finished, and all three of the children have learned a fair bit.  They also have some strong opinions to share. Summary Time4Learning is an interactive online learning package for Preschool to […]

Homeschool Crew Review: Ideal Curriculum Preschool Kit

  Learning happens.  It need not be formalized and organized at an early age.  If loving parents read to their child, spend time outside together, encourage him to help in the kitchen and yard, take him along on errands, and just generally live alongside their child, he will develop optimally and at his own pace, […]

Homeschool Crew Review of a Phonetic Reader: What Am I?

        What Am I? A Collection of Short Stories   is a beautifully illustrated phonetic reader and the third TOS Homeschool Crew product we received from Marie Rippel.   Earlier we looked at the Beehive Reader 1 (now called Cobweb the Cat), and All About Spelling: Levels One and Two.    What Am I?  is […]