We live in Northern California and have the opportunity to travel to San Francisco periodically - generally accompanying the kids' father on business trips but...

In my last article, Implementing a Task Chain to Improve Integrated Language Skills Part One, I talked about how to design a task chain in...

Teaching your child a world language can be difficult, especially when it is a language that is not heard of or practiced every day. It...

In my previous blogs (Activities for Elementary Students, Formative Assessment for First Graders and Task Design), I used several tasks as examples to show how...

Exploring the family genealogy with kids is a great way for young people to learn about their history and understand the world. Kids love to hear...

Learning a new language is very rewarding. It can be a challenge at times as well - memorizing lists of vocabulary words or writing Chinese...

Can we use the same reading strategies for any language(s)?  The answer is "yes".  The same reading strategies we naturally use when we read passages...

Halloween is just around the corner, so I wanted to share my lesson plans related to this fun American holiday! Since 中元节 (Zhōng yuán jié, Hungry...

One of the benefits of homeschooling is that we have the flexibility to travel frequently.  The kids and I enjoy keeping a journal or scrapbook...