Coupons for Comprehension: Red Apple Reading Launches Discount Program with ‘LivingSocial’
The Red Apple Reading program is now even more affordable thanks to recently-launched partnership with renowned coupon site Living Social.
Keeping the Spark of Creativity Alive in Education
Do your kids come home talking about how boring school is? Are you worried that most of what they’re learning is either rote memorization or standardized test material? You’re not alone, and unfortunately, your fears may not be entirely unwarranted.
Happy 2013!
A new year is upon us, and with it a flurry of activity for Red Apple Reading! In addition to working on a whole new level to be released soon, we have partnered with LivingSocial to offer a special promotion for parents. This includes online access to videos and games that teach the alphabet, beginning phonics, and sight words, as well as a printable workbook, flash cards, downloadable videos that can be saved and viewed on any computer or tablet, and more!
Happy Holidays from Red Apple Reading
We at Red Apple Reading wish you and your family a happy holiday season. We are enjoying the magic of the season and special time with our families, but will resume our blog posts in January. Thank you for your readership!
School and Extracurricular: How to Juggle it All
My oldest daughter Kelsey started marching band this year, and she has loved every minute of it—well, almost. If you’re a band parent or if you were in the band yourself, then you know that the typical season starts out with summer band camp—a grueling two-week process in which you attempt to learn the entire show for the season, under the blistering sun no less.
We’re Learning to Read Again!
Katie brought home a decodable book from Kindergarten yesterday, and she read the whole entire thing by herself. I was ecstatic! Yes, most of the words were the same, and some of the “words” were actually pictures, but do not think for a moment that this small detail stifled any of my excitement or the pride I felt welling up inside me! I was beaming, and more importantly, so was she!
Do Happy Kids Equal Smart Kids?
Any child development expert will tell you that a child’s well-being and his or her capacity for learning are intrinsically linked. From the earliest of ages, children require a basic sense of comfort and security in order for their developing brains to be receptive to other stimuli. Most parents and educators realize this, but what many fail to acknowledge is that this prerequisite for learning continues into childhood, adolescence, and even adulthood! Enter social and emotional learning, a model advocates affectionately refer to as SEL.
Learning About Syllables – Reading Essentials #14
Remember clapping syllables as a kid? Did you ever wonder why your teacher had you do it? It turns out that having knowledge of syllables is yet another way for young readers to figure out new words.
How’s Your Gifted Child Doing in School?
Look at the title of this post again. I bet you don’t hear that question often. Most people assume that gifted children do so well in school that there’s really no reason to even ask. While it’s true that academics pose little trouble for those kids identified as “gifted,” that doesn’t mean that school as a whole is a breeze for them.
Phonics vs. Whole-Language Learning: Why Not Both? – Reading Essentials #13
Educators have long debated whether phonics-based or whole language-based instruction leads to the most effective reading instruction.