This Simple Trick Teaches Babies and Learning Disabled Children How to Read
By Bethany Vale
Has your child fallen behind academically? Do you struggle to afford after-school tutoring sessions with special teachers? Do you find it difficult to keep appointments due to lack of transportation or a hectic work schedule? Here's a comforting thought. You alone have the advantage of spending more time with your child than any other adult. When you build simple educational experiences into each day, the cumulative effect can effortlessly rival time spent in the classroom.
Have no fear. This isn't rocket science. The "trick" is so simple you can start today. It's so automatic that you won't have to plan study sessions or force your child to sit down and concentrate. You'll just need a few colorful markers and a stack of index cards. |
The Trick: Implement standard methods that students employ when learning a whole new language.
Tape Flashcards Everywhere: Use colorful markers and index cards to write down the name of every item you see in your surroundings. Tape your homemade cards everywhere! "Couch." "Stove." "Television." "Closet." "Mirror." "Wall." "Picture." Leave no surface without a label!
Encourage Sight Recognition: Must of us learned to read by memorizing letters and sounding out words. Make the process more automatic than that. Strive for less rationalizing and more auto recognition, like the immediate feeling we get when we see a stop sign. Even folks who can't read know the meaning of the big red sign because they've seen it hundreds or thousands of times. Children who see lots of flash cards will come to equate those cards with corresponding objects, even if they haven't yet developed the critical thinking skills to process letters and sounds. Keep your flash cards taped to surfaces all year if you must. Drive the point home as often as it takes! After the 20th, 30th or 100th time your child touches something like a door, he or she will begin to recognize written words like "knob" or "handle."
Spell Out Words: Spell casual words out loud. For example, when putting on pants, instead of saying "Lift your leg," say, "Lift your l-e-g." When you're on your way out the door, say, "I'm going to the s-t-o-r-e." When it's time to take a bath, stress that your child is sitting in the b-a-t-h-t-u-b. Choose a new target word each day and repeat it over and over again. Make up endless silly songs as you move through life. "Look at me driving in the c-a-r. One of these days, I'll be a s-t-a-r."
Tape Flashcards Everywhere: Use colorful markers and index cards to write down the name of every item you see in your surroundings. Tape your homemade cards everywhere! "Couch." "Stove." "Television." "Closet." "Mirror." "Wall." "Picture." Leave no surface without a label!
Encourage Sight Recognition: Must of us learned to read by memorizing letters and sounding out words. Make the process more automatic than that. Strive for less rationalizing and more auto recognition, like the immediate feeling we get when we see a stop sign. Even folks who can't read know the meaning of the big red sign because they've seen it hundreds or thousands of times. Children who see lots of flash cards will come to equate those cards with corresponding objects, even if they haven't yet developed the critical thinking skills to process letters and sounds. Keep your flash cards taped to surfaces all year if you must. Drive the point home as often as it takes! After the 20th, 30th or 100th time your child touches something like a door, he or she will begin to recognize written words like "knob" or "handle."
Spell Out Words: Spell casual words out loud. For example, when putting on pants, instead of saying "Lift your leg," say, "Lift your l-e-g." When you're on your way out the door, say, "I'm going to the s-t-o-r-e." When it's time to take a bath, stress that your child is sitting in the b-a-t-h-t-u-b. Choose a new target word each day and repeat it over and over again. Make up endless silly songs as you move through life. "Look at me driving in the c-a-r. One of these days, I'll be a s-t-a-r."
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