SS #90: Background Knowledge (The Door to Reading)
Knowing how to read is about more than just sounding out words. Understanding any given book often requires background knowledge…
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SS #89: Dorothy Sayers’ Latin Lament
Dorothy Sayers is author of the essay that brought back classical education as a major school movement: “The Lost Tools…
SS #88: Transitioning Kids to Independent Work
When all the kids are little, learning phonics, eating toothpaste, and tearing books more than reading them, we dream of…
SS #87: How to Contemplate (The Thinking Mom’s Checklist)
In the heated cultural climate of today, a true conversation with real thinking behind arguments can be hard to find….