Customized English Tutoring and Instruction
Inkwell is excited to announce that Wendy Kapusta, a veteran teacher with over 30 years of experience, has recently joined our team.
Having a B.A. in Teaching the Emotionally Impaired and an M.A. in Reading and Language Arts with an endorsement in Learning Disabilities, Wendy is a highly qualified and seasoned teacher. She specializes in teaching students who don’t like to write.
Read more about her on her webpage.
Contact us to request a session with her.
by Karen Boniface
April 3, 2020
Reading aloud should not end with childhood. It is not something to grow out of. It is something to keep growing into.
As teens come of age in a culture filled with chaos and confusion, books provide the perfect safe place to wrestle with questions about identity, purpose, relationships, and values. Stories draw us into the lives and worlds of characters we come to care about, sparking communication between parents and teens about important issues that concern them. Through sharing stories, parents can help guide teens to maturity, wisdom, and virtue.
Reading aloud, we learn to listen. To talk. To respect another’s thoughts and feelings.
In the movie I Remember Mama, a 1948 dramatization of Kathryn Forbes’s novel Mama’s Bank Account, an impoverished lodger—Jonathan Hyde—reads Charles Dickens’s A Tale of Two Cities aloud for Mama’s family. Hyde transports them to a world of sublime imagination. It’s one of my all-time favorite scenes.
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by Karen Boniface
March 9, 2020
We are experiencing unprecedented times. At Inkwell, we’re here to help. Surely your inbox has exploded with COVID-19 emails. Ours has. Everything from alarmists spreading rumors, spammers preying on people’s panic to buy over-priced products promising protection, closure alerts, and redundant announcements of what businesses are doing to sanitize their facilities and prevent the spread of the virus. Rather than living in fear as families, let’s practice peace, gratitude, and solidarity by reading aloud.