Tag: Reading
A Sweet Yet Powerful Story of Confronting Loss
The Locket’s Secret by K. Kelley Heyne The Locket’s Secret is a sweet yet powerful story about dealing with tragedy. This wonderful book for middle…
Why and How You Should Read Aloud to Your Children
Reading aloud to your children can help “build a child’s vocabulary, sow the seeds of reading desire, and help kids continue to love books well…
Outstanding Collection of Short Stories for Catholic Teens
Secrets: Visible and Invisible from the authors at CatholicTeenBooks.com Secrets is a collection of short stories for Catholic teens from seven of the authors at…
Learning New Things is Hard
When was the last time you tried to learn something new? The other night my eight-year-old daughter was trying to teach me some basic Irish…
New Fun Middle-School Adventure: Saving Mount Rushmore
Looking for a fun adventure for your older elementary or middle school student? This book might just be what you’re looking for. Saving Mount Rushmore…
Secrets – Excellent Catholic Teen Fiction
Earlier this year, the writers from CatholicTeenBooks.com released Secrets: Visible and Invisible, a collection of short stories. At the time, my reading pile was too…
Learning to Read is Like Learning to Speak
Lately the toddler tornado has been experiencing a language explosion! Every day or two she has a new couple of words, and she is constantly…
Innovative Ideas for Book Reports
It can be a challenge to have students read and then engage with the text to create a meaningful product and demonstrate evidence of their…
How Fifteen Minutes a Day Can Change Your Child’s Life
I’ve taught literature for local homeschool co-ops for more than a decade now. During this time I’ve witnessed, up close, an extraordinary number of families who value…
The Joy of Reading Aloud
“My papa is dead!” she kept whispering to herself. “My papa is dead!” As I read these lines from A Little Princess, my six-year-old daughter…
