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Are you interested in finding out what type of learner you or your student is? This learning style quiz will give a basic assessment of how the participant learns best. Knowing your learning style can be helpful as you make choices regarding your or your student’s education or study habits. Choose the types of activities and study approaches to which you or your student respond well to find out your preferred learning styles. The results may show that multiple learning styles work well, and that’s ok! Most people have more than one learning strategy that suits them.

If you’re taking this quiz for yourself, mark the bubble that most accurately describes your preference and submit your answers. If you give this learning styles assessment to students, you can let them read and complete the quiz on their own or read the questions aloud and record their responses.

Take the quiz!

Reading comprehension is perhaps the most important skill your student will ever learn. And it’s not easy. At first, the struggle to read individual words is an almost painful experience—your student must concentrate so hard to identify each letter and its correct sound. It might take several seconds to read just one word. Thankfully, with practice reading gets easier, but improving reading comprehension involves so much more than just learning to pronounce an individual word correctly. We want students to understand the message of the words on the page. That’s why teaching reading comprehension strategies is so important.

Learn about reading comprehension!

Shopping for the best homeschool curriculum can be a lot like shopping for a computer or even a car. You need your curriculum to fit your family’s needs and wants, especially if you’re looking for a Christian homeschool curriculum to support you in leading and discipling your children. Homeschool curriculums differ in their packaging and presentation, and it can be difficult to know what to look for with so many options. We’ll help you explore some popular curriculum choices, what they can offer your family, and how to choose the best curriculum for different grade, subjects, and learning abilities.

Find the best homeschool curriculum for your family!

Wondering what to do with old and broken crayons? Don’t toss them—turn them into broken crayon art! There’s something special about opening a brand-new box of sharp crayons. Those little spears of colors lined up in perfect rows. But even when crayons become dull or break, they don’t wear out their usefulness. You can melt and reuse them to create many fun art projects and crafts with your children. You can make multi-colored crayons out of old ones or create a melted crayon painting, pumpkin, or ornament. Here are five melted crayon art ideas with pictures for inspiration for activities with your children.

Get creative with melted crayon art!