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Audiobooks stimulate reading skills in your brain!
8 Mental and Physical Benefits of Audiobooks
Students of all ages and skill levels should spend time with quality audiobooks. The language of literature stimulates, relaxes, and improves literacy skills.
How to build a brain in 30,000,000 words or MORE!
Literacy is closely linked to words spoken by parents with their children. Research proves how important words are for young children across the globe. In the past week, I have had several conversations with parents who are very concerned about how to motivate their teenagers.
I wonder if there parallels or LENA data that extends to the value of ongoing quality conversations beyond early brain development and into junior and senior high school. As the use of texting between parents and teens increases, what is happening to the frequency and duration of family conversations? I am going to set aside some time today to talk to our teenager.
More about amazing parents....
Listen to Dena Blizzard of One Funny Mom, share her heartfelt experience advocating for her daughter with learning disabilities.
https://www.facebook.com/onefunnymother/videos/1539465632831588/
Never give up!
Parents are a child's FIRST and BEST teacher...
What kind of footprint is your parenting leaving?
Also visit: https://parentfootprint.com/explainer1/ for an invitation to download module 1
Early Intervention or Wait and See?
My work as an educational therapist with adults to preschoolers aligns with the most respected educational researchers who are calling for early intervention.
“Ninety percent of children with reading difficulties will achieve grade level in reading if they receive help by the first grade.
Seventy-five percent of children whose help is delayed to age nine or later continue to struggle throughout their school careers.” —Vellutino, Scanlon, Sipay, Small, Pratt, Chen & Denckla, 1996 “
“The best solution to the problem of reading failure is to allocate resources for early identification and prevention”
(Torgesen, 1998 in “Catch Them Before They Fall.”)
Tools for teaching spelling
Researchers have proven that phonological awareness is closely linked to reading success. This is the ability to hear and manipulate the sounds in our language that combine to create meaningful words.
English has 44 sounds that are represented by 26 random squiggle marks we call our alphabet. Some children, lack awareness of the position of their lips, tongue, and teeth as they produce words. With modeling and practice students unlock valuable information for spelling simply by tuning into mouth position and movements.
A multi-sensory approach to literacy will improve the alphabetic code for struggling children. Logically, if a child fails to experience all of the sounds in a word they will struggle to spell it correctly. One of my students recently asked for help with her spelling. Her mom was desperately trying to understand why spelling "people" was so confusing. As we examined the mouth shapes she used to vocalize "people" we quickly discovered that she was actually pronouncing "peepo".
A few minutes later, with the help of:
dental mirror,
BIG mouth model,
multi-sensory analysis of the correct mouth positions
fun game of rhyming
The inclusion of the "le" at the end of "people" clicked!
Multi-sensory learning involves tuning into 3 critical learning channels of the brain:
Consider how words look as your mouth moves while speaking
Use a mirror to observe and isolate the mouth shapes associated with the sounds in words
Describe the position of your tongue, teeth and lips
Words and sounds also create feelings in our mouth, and throat
Experiment saying a word with your tongue in a different positon
Words sound different as we listen to them
Try to identify which parts of two similar words sound different, feel different and look different
Listen for the similarities and differences in words that you are speaking
3 Learning Channels for Multi-sensory literacy development
February 14 is International Book Giving Day
visit www.calgaryreads.com
If you have children's books to donate please contact me. I will arrange to have your books picked up and delivered directly to Calgary Reads. Your books will be placed directly into the hands of an child!
Stacey
phone: 403 616 0135
email: raymentconsulting@gmail.com
The Code
Our son's confidence is now soaring in junior high school AND in many other areas such as his friendships and hockey too! Katherine
"Our energetic 5-year old who avoids all academics loves his Milan Method sessions. A child with severe speech delay has now mastered sounds and syllables and considers reading FUN!" Brenda
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Literacy Issues:
Can be IDENTIFIED as early as age 5
Are NOT temporary
PERSIST and GROW over time
Will IMPROVE with intervention