Games are one of the best ways to help kids improve cognitive skills. When struggling learners decide that learning isn’t fun (not one little bit), games are a great way to sneak in some extra learning time. You don’t even have to mention that you’re developing underlying learning skills while you play! Have you …
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Help Struggling Learners Improve Visual Memory – Free Video Training
By the time children learn the alphabet, most can remember what letters look like (visual memory). They also remember what letters sound like (auditory memory). For some kids, letter recognition doesn’t come so easily. As proactive parents and educators, we may need to help struggling learners improve visual memory, as well as auditory memory, deliberately …
Help Struggling Learners Improve Auditory Memory – Free Video Training
Why should parents and educators help struggling learners improve auditory memory? This free auditory memory video training answers that question, and more. For instance… What role does auditory memory play in a child’s ability to read and learn? Why is auditory memory development so important? How do we know if underdeveloped auditory memory …
The Visual Memory Piece of Reading Intervention Goes Digital
When you think of reading intervention activities for kids, I’m guessing visual memory training is probably not the first thing you think of. Perhaps you believe working with letters is more important for reading intervention than working with, oh, let’s say… colors. That’s a perfectly reasonable assumption. Here at Inner Pieces Gallery I talk a …
The ONE THING All Good Reading Intervention Programs Have in Common
If your child or student reads below grade level, you might have tried a number of reading intervention programs with varying degrees of success. Maybe you still want to find a reading program that actually works. Keep in mind, all good reading intervention programs share one very important quality in common. By the way, …
Is it a Learning Difference or Defiance?
Can you tell the difference between a child who is being defiant vs a child who experiences a learning difference? Sometimes they look a lot alike. If you have a resistant learner at home or in the classroom, can you identify where the resistance is coming from? What Learning Differences Might Look …
The Parent’s & Teacher’s Guide to Helping Struggling Learners
Do you ever wish you could find a useful, eye-opening, made-for-you parent’s guide to helping struggling learners? If you’re a teacher, maybe you’d love a teacher’s guide, one that covers the information you didn’t receive in your education courses. Sure, you could read book after book about learning differences, but I’m not talking …