Reading

A Home Ed Daily review of The Reading Detectives by Steven Harris

The Reading Detectives review: a shared reading book for curious children

A flexible reading resource for children who enjoy clues, questions and short stories. The Reading Detectives review: short stories that make reading feel like solving a puzzle.

💚 Disclosure: Steven kindly sent me a copy of his book to review so I could share my honest thoughts. I only ever feature resources that I genuinely believe are ideal for home educating families.

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How to help children fall in love with reading. The power of reading aloud.

Fairytales before phonics: How to help children love reading

How to help children fall in love with reading. The power of reading aloud.

Learning to read is hard, and none of us like doing things that are hard without good reason. So, if children don’t see the point in learning to read, they will be very reluctant to do the hard work involved in being able to decode the jumble of letters on a page.

After all, as adults, which of us picks up a...

Parrot Street Book Club Review

Parrot Street Book Club Review

Product summary:

Parrot Street’s book club helps you discover new children’s books with monthly subscriptions. They carefully curate age-appropriate books you won’t easily find yourself from a wide range of authors and genres. They offer three reading levels; Parakeets (5 to 8 years), Cockatoos (8 to 12 years) and Macaws (12 to 14 years). Each monthly title comes with book club-style...