As I was working on the information pages for all of the different topics and time periods covered in the AP World History curriculum, I kept thinking about how I would have students take notes on this massive amount of information. At first, I thought I might make notes pages for each topic. I quickly dismissed this idea because it would take an extraordinary amount of time, and it wouldn’t be very helpful as people would have to guess at what I was thinking or constantly ch

Want a printable version of this post? Get it below. If you are reading this post, you either have a child struggling to learn how to read at school, or you are an overachiever looking to teach your child to read before school starts. Either way, welcome! I am happy to share what I have learned with you! Let’s talk about numbers for a minute. Scientists estimate that around 95% of elementary students can learn to read. That is a much different number than the 32% of 4th-grade