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5 Tips To Help A Slow Reader
Not all children enjoy the activity of reading and for some it is a daunting exercise because of a variety of reasons based on delayed development or learning difficulties. Whether you are a parent or teacher seeking answers on how to help a slow reader, using these five basic tips below will hopefully assist in their literacy learning.
{TIP 1} The key for any parent or teacher is to stay patient! Just think, if you’re the adult and you are losing it, how much frustration the child is...
Pretend Play to Stimulate Language
Using pretend play to stimulate language and introduce vocabulary is a great way to make learning fun and a little easier. It is also a great opportunity to extend the time your child needs to learn certain phrases with repetition.
Pretend play doesn’t require much expense either – get out the plastic picnic set or use their toys as extra guests. Using boxes for doll’s cribs or creating doll’s houses is also a very good language activity in itself that helps build...
Choosing Fun Learning Activities For Your Kids
With the hustle and bustle of daily life you can easily allow your kids to play with whatever they want – and it may not necessarily be age appropriate. Choosing Fun Learning Activities For Your Kids doesn’t mean they have to be restricted to only playing when you have time though.
After reading an article in box4kids on blogspot I was inspired to consider a list of great education toys and games that do not necessarily mean you have to participate ALL the time.
Building with...
Parents Are A Child’s Best Teacher
Finding the right early intervention services is invaluable to your child’s learning. But parents are a child’s best teacher when it comes to building on those basic concepts that involve play.
All the interactions of a parent can be used to help develop basic concepts, fine and gross motor skills within your child with special needs, such as:
singing nursery rhymes or talking to your child,
through touch, such as patting and rubbing
playing with your child,
dressing and feeding...
Number Activities For Home
Here are some simple number activities for home time if your child is struggling to remember the sequence of digits or identify a quantity.
These additional activities are easy to undertake with your children in and around your family home without having to purchase any expensive learning items but if you would like to add some games to add variety have a look at our list of mathematical downloadable activities.
Have your child count as far as he/she is able to and then encourage your child to...
Improve Learning with Visual Perception Games
Playing Visual Perception Games is a great way to help your child prepare for school. It is also an excellent motivational method to improve learning & motor planning skills of children having trouble remembering or writing alphabet or numerical symbols and the like.
Here is a great list of learning activities you could start with and adapt to cater for your child as needed.
Pick The Difference
Print a simple picture of a person (or photocopy a drawing) 5 times. On each picture change...
Learning Science Concepts Can Be Fun And Easy
Quite often the task of teaching science to any child let alone one with special needs can sound daunting. But learning science concepts can be fun and easy. The best method to teaching any child science is to challenge the concepts they have already developed. It not only heightens their curiosity to understand but increases their concentration and development of language to ask questions or explain why.
One simple activity I found that is quick and easy to prepare for and won’t break...