If you are an elementary teacher or homeschool teacher, then I hope you have heard of Laura Candler.  If you haven’t, then you are in luck today, because I’m going to share with you the amazing web-based resources that Laura has collected.  I’d especially like to focus on her vocabulary resources! Teaching Resources is Laura’s [...]

It is difficult to talk about vocabulary without also talking about spelling.  Educators have shown that spelling not only improves reading and writing fluency but also vocabulary and comprehension. Words are the building blocks of the English language, and one cannot really communicate well without having skills in both vocabulary AND spelling. When the study [...]