How being home has improved their reading.

Having my kids home since March, and shortly there after becoming their main educator has allowed me to guide and witness the advancements in their learning more fully. We have always encouraged reading, however, I won’t lie... we did not really have much opportunity outside the allotted 20mins of reading time to really focus on it. Before we pulled our girls from school I read to them at night and they each did their required reading... otherwise, we were just too darn busy to do more. How sad really. I know many kids love to read and do it on their own — but our kids, not so much. However, that is changing! We bring books in the car, have quiet afternoons reading and I think I have taken out more books from our local library then ever before! While I was always pretty against video games for this age group, my girls play with their dad a few times a week and omg it actually has improved their reading by leaps and bounds! They read all the Zelda text bubbles (along with doing math and other skills I never really considered before until now) my younger daughter now reads pages almost completely independently from books such as little house in the big woods, or who was books... my big love has had some “quirks” with the reading, but spending so much dedicated time with her we’ve come to find that some of the issues are vision related... so glasses have been a big problem solver. At school the books she was reading were not nearly as advanced and the text was always quite large So she skated by not really knowing something was wrong, and often her teachers either didn’t hear her read regularly OR dismissed her issues as age related...but, being at home she has wanted to read books that are more up to her abilities and with that came the struggle to see the words right...not anymore! Now she picks up many more books with confidence ❤️. We are still finding our way in many aspects but becoming a homeschool family has already paid off. My kids are so smart, so willing, so excited and it makes my heart so happy.