Today Wendy Speake and Kelli Stuart are talking about how common it is to feel that we’ve lost ourselves in this season of homeschooling. We used to have interests, passions and plans, even careers.

While Wendy and Kelli both had to learn to fit their writing careers into the cracks and crevices of family life, they want to encourage you to remember and reclaim some of your passions and pleasures.

In her 25 years of teaching special education  and consulting, Dianne Craft has found that it takes only 5 steps, consistently applied in a daily reading lesson, to not only remove the symptoms of Dyslexia (reversals, scrambling sounds, and dysgraphia), but the effects of Dyslexia , (below level reading, spelling and writing).  In this Podcast you will learn 2 simple steps: Physical Exercises that internalize directionality for  a child and Visual Teaching  Strategies that faithfully put “Zany Memory Hooks” on all aspects of reading…phonemes/phonics; sight words; spelling words. This can all be done in a daily reading session.  It’s a method that she used in both Elementary and Middle School settings with equal  success. A minimum of 2 years growth in a year was made using these simple, but non-curriculum related strategies. (many times, more)   No need for future college accommodations.  No need for curriculum purchase.  No special training needed. Just success at your fingertips.

Cynthia and Sue give tried and true tips on what works when you are just about to hit the wall as motivation is waning.This episode speaks to those who need to get over obstacles.