{"id":5116,"date":"2014-10-09T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-10-09T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nutsaboutreading.com\/reading-skills-9\/"},"modified":"2022-07-04T16:32:00","modified_gmt":"2022-07-04T16:32:00","slug":"exercise-your-childs-learning-brain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nutsaboutreading.com\/exercise-your-childs-learning-brain\/","title":{"rendered":"Exercise Your Child\u2019s Learning Brain and Develop Reading Skills"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"5116\" class=\"elementor elementor-5116\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-4cd0e3d5 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"4cd0e3d5\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-19f5ec09\" data-id=\"19f5ec09\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-412b8490 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"412b8490\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><b>Exercise your child\u2019s learning brain and develop reading skills using tracing.\u00a0\u00a0<\/b><span style=\"font-size: 17px;\">Tracing is great visual perception and motor skill practice which helps build reading skills.<\/span><\/p><p>Tracing develops the hand-eye coordination needed for <a href=\"https:\/\/keystoliteracy.com\/blog\/how-the-brain-learns-to-read\/\">reading and writing<\/a> and the fine motor skills for <a href=\"https:\/\/nutsaboutreading.com\/handwriting-for-kids\/\">writing<\/a>. \u00a0Tracing also exercises their \u2018eye for detail\u2019 which aids in decoding and comprehension.<\/p><p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Let\u2019s Get Started!<\/strong><\/span><\/p><p>Collect things around the house and place them under a piece of tracing paper and trace their outline.\u00a0 \u00a0Autumn offers some great objects.\u00a0 Tracing from other pictures, works too.<\/p><p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Exercise your child\u2019s learning brain \" src=\"https:\/\/nutsaboutreading.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/traced-leaf-300x188.jpg\" alt=\"Exercise your child\u2019s learning brain\" width=\"200\" height=\"125\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Exercise your child\u2019s learning brain\" src=\"https:\/\/nutsaboutreading.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/traced-pumpkin-300x188.jpg\" alt=\"traced pumpkin\" width=\"200\" height=\"125\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nutsaboutreading.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/traced-apple-300x188.jpg\" alt=\"Exercise your child\u2019s learning brain traced-apple\" width=\"200\" height=\"125\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nutsaboutreading.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/traced-rake-300x188.jpg\" alt=\"Exercise your child\u2019s learning brain traced-rake\" width=\"200\" height=\"125\" \/>\u00a0 \u00a0<\/p><p>\u00a0\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nutsaboutreading.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/traced-scarecrow-300x188.jpg\" alt=\"traced-scarecrow\" width=\"200\" height=\"125\" \/><\/p><p>\u00a0<strong style=\"font-size: 17px; color: #ff0000;\">Now let\u2019s extend and build those reading skills.<\/strong><\/p><ul><li>After your child has traced the objects, let them color their pictures. Coloring is another beneficial, gross motor brain exercise.<\/li><li>Combine tracing several objects into one picture.<\/li><li>Like \u2018I Spy\u2019, take a picture of a landscape in their neighborhood, or a room in their house, and have them embed their traced objects in that picture somewhere, to make their own hidden pictures. \u00a0Cut and paste or place the photo under tracing paper and trace the photo and their objects as one picture. \u00a0They can then write the words for the objects to find, at the bottom of the picture. Great for spelling and language development.<\/li><li>Take those vocabulary words and sort them by beginning letter, alphabetical order, number of letters in a word from short to longest\u2026<\/li><li>Increase visual memory by turning their paper over and ask them to name as many objects from their picture as they can.<\/li><li>Have them look at their picture for several seconds.\u00a0 Turn the picture over.\u00a0 Ask them questions such as: what color is the pumpkin? How many pumpkins are in the picture?\u00a0 Is there a person in the picture?\u00a0 You get the idea!\u00a0 Build comprehension and attention to detail with visual memory!<\/li><li>Really encourage their imaginations by having them write a short story or sentence about their pictures.<\/li><\/ul><p>Take Away from these activities?\u00a0 Creativity is a building block of reading success.<\/p><p>Exercise your child\u2019s learning brain was first published on NutsAboutReading.com<\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-691e2d3 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"691e2d3\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-3b9be49\" data-id=\"3b9be49\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-35b87cc elementor-cta--skin-classic elementor-animated-content elementor-bg-transform elementor-bg-transform-zoom-in elementor-widget elementor-widget-call-to-action\" data-id=\"35b87cc\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"call-to-action.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-cta\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-cta__bg-wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-cta__bg elementor-bg\" style=\"background-image: url(https:\/\/nutsaboutreading.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/nuts-about-reading-CTA3-1024x284.png);\" role=\"img\" aria-label=\"Nuts About Reading Course\"><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-cta__bg-overlay\"><\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-cta__content\">\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-cta__title elementor-cta__content-item elementor-content-item\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\tLearn the science behind teaching a child how to read so they can become readers for a lifetime!  \t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-cta__description elementor-cta__content-item elementor-content-item\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\tNuts About Reading\u2122 is an online course that teaches you the basics of the reading process and provides tips YOU can use to help a child achieve reading success.\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-cta__button-wrapper elementor-cta__content-item elementor-content-item \">\n\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"elementor-cta__button elementor-button elementor-size-\" href=\"https:\/\/nuts-about-reading.gurucan.com\/app\/plans\/62844b7ddb5e910012b73980\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\tClick Here\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exercise your child\u2019s learning brain and develop reading skills using tracing.\u00a0\u00a0Tracing 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. \u00a0Tracing also exercises their \u2018eye for detail\u2019 which aids in decoding and comprehension. 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