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 […]
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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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Check out this Reading Game to help your child learn to read and strengthen their reading skills! Game 3: Museum Walk! Ages 5 and up. Language processing for reading skills requires the development of a treasure chest full of vocabulary. Here’s a fun way to grow your child’s vocabulary. This is especially valuable to those
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Here is another game to help your child learn to read and strengthen their reading skills! Reading Skills Game 2: Follow the Light! Ages 4 and up. This game is great for developing the ‘bilateralism’ capabilities of the brain. This is a necessary brain function for reading skills because scientists have shown that reading involves
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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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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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This is your brain on reading: Everything you see, hear, taste, touch, or smell must go to your brain for processing. The brain will send you, via express delivery: that what you see is a ‘dog’; or you just heard a ‘train whistle’; or that sweet taste is ‘candy’; or what you are touching is
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CHOOSING A BOOK WITH THE FIVE FINGER RULE: A SIMPLE METHOD FOR CHOOSING THE RIGHT BOOK FOR YOUR CHILD’S INDEPENDENT READING ABILITY [this method is most appropriate for end of 1st grade up] The easiest way to determine if a book is at an appropriate independent reading level for your child is to use the
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