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, […]
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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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Build self-esteem and create a positive environment through consistency. Consistency is imperative as children grow and learn! For kids, inconsistency creates anxiety. Consistency is a key learning tool for your child. Consistency offers a positive environment for building self-confidence. Self-confidence builds self-esteem. When children don’t know what is going to happen next or how their
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Reading Comprehension and CLOZE. The prize to reading is comprehension! We read for pleasure, and to gain knowledge and information. Just like any good recipe, there are several ingredients necessary for developing reading comprehension strategies: [Building the Reading Brain PreK-3 by Patricia Wolfe and Pamela Nevills] Ingredients for Reading Comprehension: Using generous spoonfuls of: Vocabulary
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Why do children bully? There is no one answer to the question of why children bully. Some kids may do it to try to fit in or because they feel like they don’t have any other way to get attention. Others may bully because they’ve been bullied themselves or they have anger management issues. Whatever
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“The single most important activity for building the knowledge required for eventual success in reading is reading aloud to children.” — Becoming a Nation of Readers a U.S. Department of Education Report, 1985 Why does reading aloud help my child learn to read? The two main doors for words to get into our brain is
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IQ is not a strong predictor of reading comprehension success. In fact, many research studies have determined that IQ does not directly correlate to reading achievement. There are two factors that contribute greatly to reading difficulties and each contains multiple ‘signs’ for reading challenges. The two factors are ‘biological/neurological’ and ‘environmental’. KEEP IN MIND that
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CAN WE GET ALONG and RISE ABOVE THE BUMPS and BULLIES! Building Self Esteem For Students That Are Homeschooled Is self-esteem defined differently for a home schooled child? The answer is no. Building self esteem for students who are homeschooled is same as it is with students in a classroom. We all desire to have
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5 ways to make reading fun: help your child learn to read! Did you know that most kids stop reading by their fourth grade year in school? That’s a scary thought! Reading is an important part of a child’s success in school, in life and well into their adulthood. If we want to help our
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First Grade Reading Tips: Reading is important across the curriculum, from a very early age, children who learn to read earlier on in life tend to develop a better understanding of the topic at hand. Research shows that children who are read to from an early age, tend to develop good reading skills and have
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