These days, schooling looks entirely different. Many parents have become makeshift teachers, which can be quite overwhelming, depending on the situation. Fortunately, you don’t have to be an expert to fortify skills in English language arts at home.

March 20 is World Storytelling Day. This holiday is celebrated annually on the March equinox. Every year features a focused theme, 2020 being “Voyages.” The tradition of World Storytelling Day is to encourage people from all over the globe to share stories orally in their native tongue. It also presents a great opportunity to embrace culture and to foster interpersonal relationships by listening to stories in other languages.

Check out these free and easy ways you can celebrate World Storytelling Day this year.

It’s the first week of December, and you’re probably still settling back into your work routine. Just when you think you have it all together, you hear a little voice in the next room shout at 6 a.m., “Mom, Snowflake didn’t move!”

It’s a well-known fact that reading aloud to your children has many benefits. It helps them with literacy, it aids in expanding their vocabulary, and it can provide great bonding time. With so many children’s books on the market, how do you know what’s best?

This isn’t a well-known fact, but I love thesauruses. I use one at least five days a week, multiple times a day while I work. As a curriculum lead, I’m always looking for the best ways to phrase our English Language Arts lessons so that students are exposed to a variety of words, particularly ones with nuisances. It just so happens that today is National Thesaurus Day.