Donna Young

When my children were younger, I had them do something that I called timed writing. I’m not sure what I can say about it to recommend it except to say generically — It helped them. They started out at the first of the school year, sort of freezing or taking too long at [...]

About Easy Grammar
Easy Grammar series by Wanda Phillips uses the prepositional approach to evaluating sentences. I used Easy Grammar for my children’s grammar lessons during the early to middle years, and I found it to be an effective program. Once a student can identify the prepositional phrases in a sentence, other elements in the [...]

Some of us have been homeschooling for several weeks now. How is it going? I hope at least it’s been good. Homeschooling is rarely perfect; it’s more like a roller coaster.

This entry is in reference to Natural Speller by Kathryn Stout. If you have used Natural Speller and want to comment about the book, please do so below.
My introductory comments from Book Archives
I have used this spelling resource for many years and found it to be a good program. The 92-page book provides you with [...]

I first wrote this in 2003 at my forum, but now that it is gone, I need to republish for my purposes. I am writing a review of Jensen’s Format Writing and in my syllabus, I had a link to the now gone forum topic. I will link that to this blog entry in [...]