Vocabulary
VocabularyOne of the most important things parents can do is foster the love of reading in their children. Vocabulary plays an important part in learning to read as it teaches the meaning of words. Beginning readers cannot understand what they are reading without first knowing what most of the words mean. What parents can do at home: It’s never too early to begin talking
Teaching My Son Colors
I had a lot of fun teaching my son his colors. I taught him by reading books with colorful pictures and naming the colors of objects we saw as we took a walk. After I pointed out an old blue truck on blocks down the street, every truck we saw was old and blue until he understood the meaning of the words that we
My First Blog
Hi everyone. As the title says, this is my first blog. I have no idea what you guys would be interested in, so if there is something you’d like to know about, send me an email. Today, I’m going to talk about my favorite thing in the entire world, my son. He’s four and a half now, and he’s awesome. He loves to read,
Individualized Instruction
I thought I’d write about the actual program in this post and how it was built. It really does take an amazing group of people to do something like this (more about them in another post!) Why did we call our product Smart Tutor? Well, we felt it needed to do something similar to what a real live tutor would do. It would first
Smart Tutor – Lift off
I’m thrilled to finally launch the SmartTutor.com blog and personally greet all our parents and educators. Before I talk about the product, here’s a little bit about me. I’m Dale Baker and I, along with my wife Robin, founded Learning Today just over eight years ago. Our two wonderful boys, 11 year old Grant (now going into 6th grade) and 9 year old Wyatt
