Academic Readiness Skills for Young Children

When you are home schooling your young children, you can use this list to identify things that you need to work on. However, I would like to add a small note about reading. Teaching reading in the early years is a moderately recent concept. It is quite normal for children to not be able to read until 8 or even 9 years old. The recent push for children to pick up reading early is two fold. First of all, there are more and more children who have several of the risk factors that are correlated to poor performance in school: … Continue reading