Closing Reading Gaps at Home: 3 Simple Ways to Strengthen Homeschool Reading Comprehension for Tweens and Teens. If you’re teaching reading at home, you already know the challenge: some days your child dives into a text with excitement… and other days, it feels like pulling teeth to get through a single page. That’s a common part of homeschool reading comprehension , especially in the tween and teen years when expectations suddenly become much more complex. It’s not that your child can’t read. It’s that the middle school years introduce major shifts. Students are now expected to analyze, infer, cite evidence, determine theme, compare texts, and understand multiple layers of nonfiction structure—all skills that require deep thinking, not just decoding. That’s a lot for any tween or teen, and it can feel overwhelming when you’re managing learning at home without a built-in curriculum team. The good news? You don’t n......

Hands on. Engaging. Fun. Those are the three words that come to mind when I think of education. Students should be having fun, and hands-on, engaging activities can do just that!...