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8 Best Reading Apps for Kids

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Reading apps for kids are a great way to turn screen time into a learning opportunity. Dozens of reading apps provide simple, step-by-step methods, educationally proven to develop kids’ reading skills. Many of these apps incorporate fun songs, stories, and games to keep your child engaged in learning. Whether you’re at home or in the waiting room at the dentist’s office with your children, take advantage of one or more of these great reading apps. We’ve narrowed down the best reading apps for kids to help you choose the right one for your child’s reading needs.
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The Creation Mandate: What does it mean to be fruitful and multiply?

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In Genesis, God gave a mandate to humans—be fruitful and multiply and have dominion over living creatures. This command from God places the responsibility to take care of the earth and all its creatures on all generations. You may not know whether your child grow up to be a doctor, fireman, or astrophysicist, but we do know that it’s God’s will for every person—both old and young—to obey the creation mandate. As parents and teachers, it is our responsibility to teach our children what it means to be fruitful, replenish and subdue the earth, and have dominion over creation.

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Learning Styles Quiz: What Type of Learner Are You?

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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.

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7 Reading Strategies to Improve Reading Comprehension

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reading textbooks that offer reading strategies to improve reading comprehension

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.

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How to Choose the Best Homeschool Curriculum for Your Family

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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!