Learning Styles and Your Child
Do you know your child’s learning styles? Many utilize a combination. Parent tips for activities for three learning styles.
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Reading Skills and the Learning Brain
Reading Skills and the Learning Brain. Reinforce reading skills by exercising your child’s learning brain. Reading skills are important for children to learn and practice. However, reading is not the only skill that is important for children to learn. Exercising your child’s learning brain is also important. This can be done by providing activities that …
The 5 Words Parents don’t want to hear about their Child’s Reading Skills
Reading skills start young and last a lifetime. There are many challenges for parents as you raise your children. The rules of the game seem to change every day making it even more challenging to keep up. All parents want first, is that their children are healthy, happy, and safe. After that however, there are …
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Why Doesn’t My Child Want to Read? – PARENT READING TIPS
“In the pages of a book anyone can be a great explorer or become their dream. The power of education and daydreaming creates the innovators of the future.”—Archer Sierra Reading and your child’s interest in reading was on my local news last evening. http://www.kpho.com/story/28202822/kids-need-to-read-provides-books-to-disadvantaged-arizona-school-kids I can’t tell you how many times, as a Reading Specialist, …
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Reading Skills Increase with Movement
Reading skills increase with movement. Winter is taking its toll. Snow piled up, schools closed, and some of the coldest temperatures on record! Are your kids suffering from cabin fever? How are their reading skills? Keep them moving. Research has shown that movement aids in cognitive processing and focus. Ask a ballerina. My daughter …
Exercise Your Child’s Learning Brain and Develop Reading Skills
Exercise your child’s learning brain and develop reading skills using tracing. Tracing is great visual perception and motor skill practice which helps build reading skills. Tracing develops the hand-eye coordination needed for reading and writing and the fine motor skills for writing. Tracing also exercises their ‘eye for detail’ which aids in decoding and comprehension. Let’s …
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Reading Skills and Benchmarks: Construction Zone Warning for Parents!
Reading skills are a construction zone of Benchmarks. Architects and carpenters are builders who use ‘benches’ and ‘blueprints’ for tools as they build their structures. Teachers and parents are architects and builders also. Their ‘benches’ and ‘blueprints’ just look different when assessing reading skills. Benchmarks are the benches and blueprints for teachers and parents, as …
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Back-to-School and the ‘H’ Word: Homework Tips
Many kids dread going back-to-school because of the looming amounts of homework. Parents, do you sigh also? “Schooling should teach kids how to learn, and parents should teach them how to work by establishing work rules and work ethic at home. Homework provides an opportunity for parents to reinforce and build upon what a child …
Are You Game? Reading Game 1
Check out this reading game to help your child learn to read and strengthen their reading skills! Do you think games are just child’s play? Not always. Many times the games we play as children…help us develop skills we will use as an adult. For instance, Candy Land® is a fun way to practice counting, …
Reading Skills vs. Brain Skills; Is Seeing Believing?
Reading Skills vs Brain Skills, is seeing really believing? The brain loves to play tricks on our minds using our eyes, ears, tongue, lips, and teeth. These are all parts of the body that are necessary for us to develop reading skills and reading comprehension strategies. Visual discrimination is a brain process that helps our …
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