Educational Areas

On the Educational pages I have a collection of items related to the following areas:

reading:

Preschool, Kindergarten and Elementary (1st-3rd)

• Skills Children Need to Read (includes Web sites worthwhile visiting)
• Recommended Reading Lists
• Online Worksheets (under development)

writing: how to encourage children to write and some writing ideas

math:

• websites that are useful for learning/practicing multiplication
• other mathematics related web sites
• Mental Arithmetic

basic skills: on this page you can read some ideas on how to practice a particular skill with your child at home;

Just click on a button above to find your desired page.

You can find many educational web site links on the Links page.

And one more thing:

Many adults forget how difficult (confusing) the English language is - especially when it comes to spelling. Read the following poem to remind you of what children "have to go through" while learning spelling and reading.

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English

I take it you already know
Of tough and bough and cough and dough
Others may stumble, but not you
On hiccough, thorough, slough and through
Well done. And now you wish perhaps,
To learn of less familiar traps?

Beware of heard, a dreadful word
That looks like beard and sounds like bird.
And dead; it's said like bed, not bead;
For goodness sake, don't call it deed.

Watch out for meat and great and threat,
They rhyme with suite and straight and debt.
The moth is not the moth in mother
Nor both in bother, broth in brother.

And here is not a match for there
And dear and fear for bear and pear,
And then there's dose and rose an lose
Just look them up - and goose and choose.

And cork and work and card and ward,
And ford and word and sword and toward
And do and go, then thwart and cart Come, come, I've already made a start.
A dreadful language? Why man alive!
I'd learned to talk before I was five
And yet to write it, the more I tried
I hadn't learned it at fifty-five.

Author Unknown