Summer Reading Challenges
If you’re trying to incorporate reading into your daily routine or encourage your kids to read more, a reading challenge may be your solution.
Raising Children Safely in a Digital Age
There are many advantages to children growing up in the digital age, but there are also some dangers. Learn how to protect your children during this exciting, yet challenging, time.
Homeschooling Your Kiddos During School Closures
With schools around the country closed due to COVID-19, as a parent, what can you do to help your kids learn, support their well-being, and build independent learning strategies? Study.com has some great resources on their website to share.
Book-Themed Meals
Do your family meals seem to be missing something? Is your call to the kitchen table met with sighs and eye rolls? Why not add a new ingredient to spice things up? Nothing infuses new life into dinner time like a good book. Red Apple Reading has some fun book theme Read more…
Creating a Positive Reading Environment
reating a reading friendly environment at home is an important step in order to help your child improve not only their literacy skills but also to help foster an appreciation of reading.
Drop Everything and Read!
Each year on April 12, in honor of beloved author Beverly Cleary’s birthday, D.E.A.R. is celebrated. What is D.E.A.R.? It stands for “Drop Everything and Read”. Ramona and her classmates participate in D.E.A.R. activities in Cleary’s book, Ramona Quimby, Age 8. Well, if it’s good enough for Ramona, it’s good Read more…
Keeping Your Child’s Reading Progress on Track
As the school year progresses it’s easy to let enthusiasm for regular reading routines go by the wayside. Don’t despair if this is the case in your home. Red Apple Reading wants to help you get your child’s reading progress back on track!
Ten Tips to Encourage Reading
You know it’s important to read to your child and foster that love of learning, but for whatever reason, you feel like your efforts are stalling. The important thing is you’re trying. With these 10 tips, you’ll get there.
Raising Thankful Children
What would you include in your parental job description? Very often we think in terms of how well we provide for our children when we consider what being a parent entails. As parents we want our kids to have the best of everything. While we know it is our job to provide for our children, we often fail to consider that it is equally important to raise grateful children. With Thanksgiving around the corner let’s take time to consider what we as parents can do to raise thankful kids.
7 Tips for Homeschooling a Child with Special Needs
Guest post by Jackie Nunes at The Wonder Moms blog – As amazing and inspiring as our little ones can be, raising a child with special needs can be hard. And fighting to get your child’s needs met in a traditional school can be even harder.