![]() ![]() Think about rhyme, rhythm and predictable patterns. For preschool, EFL (English as Foreign Language) learners, emergent readers. Sounds make letters and letters make words. Preschool-Adult: Quick Review, Background Knowledge. Let’s Talk About Five Key Areas of Reading Instruction. When students become automatic in their decoding skills, this is what fluency means, in its simplest form, and visual/perceptual skills matter. Letters have shapes there are sticks, curves, tunnels. They recognize that thought can be written, they look at print- the letters, spaces. Students begin in a print awareness stage. We have to learn the code so that we can then forget it and discover the meaning.” -Paul E. “Reading is an auditory-language experience with a symbolic visual code. Here’s how Paul Dennison describes this basic process: In any event, our goal for students is to help them become capable, confident readers who love to read. ![]() Schools test students on their fluency, often using nonsense words, which I disagree with. Reading fluency is our goal, Reading automatically with expression, and understanding is called “automaticity”. I believe Brain Gym will make a huge difference in your life, as teacher, parent or caregiver. Kinesiology, movement is how many students need to learn, touch, feel, and experience. Let’s learn more how Brain Gym fits in with reading instruction, Why not use these simple moves? Learning is really all about play and movement, at its most successful. Just a reminder that Brain Gym won’t interfere with any specific reading program or strategy, just the opposite watch students’ progress soar! So here we go. In any event, regardless of specific reading program you use, as long as you like it, fine with me. There’s more to reading than a discussion about whole language versus phonics. Now I get that, I really do, but there has never been just one way to teach reading. How can kids continually be behind in their reading when one scripted program after another comes out, teachers hunker down, either like it or not, but are urged to accept and follow that program with fidelity. ![]() RTOL: Rapid Transition to Online Learningįast Track Reading With Brain Gym! This unique session offers a tremendous opportunity to fill in the gaps, what makes the difference in learning to read, or read better and faster.Red People, Blue People: It’s Not So Black and White. ![]()
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