For homeschool moms when a lesson isn't clicking
You don't always need a new curriculum. Sometimes you need a different way to teach it. Find where your child is stuck in reading or math, and free, practical help to teach it, with the curriculum you already love.
Jordan Lea, former elementary and special education teacher, Orton-Gillingham trained, and homeschool mom of four
STUCK POINT
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Tap under each letter and say the sound. Slide your finger under the first two and blend them. Then add the third.
Free help: The Reading Stuck-Point Check
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Pick one letter. Write it big. Say the sound every time. Bring in the other one when the first feels solid.
Free help: The Reading Stuck-Point Check
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Have your child do one problem out loud and just listen. You can usually hear where they're getting stuck. Then go back a step, get something hands-on, or come back to it tomorrow.
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Pick the one that sounds like your week. You'll see what's often going on, one thing to try, and the free resource made for it.
What's often going on
Your child already knows the sounds. Sometimes it's just one little piece underneath.
Try this today
Tap under each letter and say the sound. Slide your finger under the first two and blend them. Then add the third.
The one idea behind everything here
Most of the time, it's one little piece underneath. When my kids keep missing the same thing, I try to stop and ask one question. What doesn't make sense to them yet?
Start at the beginning and stop where it gets hard. That's where you start.
Sometimes we need to go back a step. Sometimes we need to get out something hands-on.
And sometimes we just need to come back to it tomorrow. Then open the same book and keep going.
Free help
One page or close to it. One stuck point. No prep. A new one comes out often.
"What doesn't make sense to them yet?"
Who this help is from
I have a teaching degree, and I still have days when a lesson isn't clicking at my own table. When that happens, I try to stop and ask myself one question. What doesn't make sense to them yet?
Sometimes we need to go back a step. Sometimes we need to get out something hands-on. And sometimes we just need to come back to it tomorrow.
You know your child better than anybody else, and I believe God will equip you to teach them.
A series on Instagram
One real stuck point at a time: why it happens, and one different way to teach it.
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Books by Jordan Lea
Still Standing is part memoir and part devotional, with two companion journals to make room for your own story.
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