What Is Your Child's Learning Style?

Summer has flown by and it's time to start preparing for the back-to-school crunch.  One thing I have become aware of as I have worked with my two children over the summer with reading and math, is just how different each child learns.  I have always known this to be true, but now I have experienced how you need completely different strategies for teaching a visual learner than you do for a kinesthetic learner.  Here is a great article that explains the different learning styles as well as tips for how to assist each type of learner with homework.

 http://www.schoolfamily.com/school-family-articles/article/826-what-is-your-childs-learning-style

Is Teaching Spelling Important?

This is a very interesting article about whether or not we should be concerned about children learning to spell in school.  I myself have said several times that with our current technology it seems not to be as important as it used to be.  However, as the author of the article nicely illustrates, spell check is not that accurate AND a child with poor spelling will fall behind in other skills such as written expression which affects learning in all subjects.

http://www.specialeducationadvisor.com/to-spell-or-not-to-spell-is-it-important/