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Teaching Your Baby to Read (Part 1)

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 As Glenn Doman indicates with his method based on the bits of intelligence that we already discussed in another post, young children can learn to read words and phrases in the same way that they learn oral language. Both visual and auditory pathways are analyzed by the brain. The method is also based on intelligence bits, but unlike the previous system where the baby recognized images presented in these bits, now we will present texts, which it will also recognize. The essence of the mechanism is the same, only certain parts of the process change. What materials do I need to teach him to read? You will need several elongated white cards cut into 4 x 24 inches or 10 x 60 centimeters and a thick red marker preferably, children are struck by bright colors. On this cardboard, strips write the words you want to teach. The letters must be 3 inches or 7.5 centimeters high and in lowercase since it is more common to see them that way in books and texts. Letters should be thick and concise...
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Teaching Reading Strategies, School and Educational Psychology

 Reading strategies are techniques or methods that readers use to acquire information, or procedures or activities chosen to facilitate the process of reading comprehension. They are flexible plans adapted to different situations that vary according to the text to be read and the approach previously elaborated by the reader to facilitate their understanding (Duffy & cols., 1987; Brown, 1994; Pellegrini, 1996; Kopke, 2001).  Duke and Pearson (2002) identified six types of reading strategies that research has suggested as aids in the comprehension process, namely: prediction, thinking out loud, text structure, visual representation of the text, summary, and questioning. The prediction implies anticipate, predict facts or text content using existing knowledge to facilitate understanding. Thinking out loud is when the reader verbalizes his thought while reading. Improvement in students' understanding has been demonstrated when they themselves dedicate themselves to this practi...
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10 essential steps to teach a child to read

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 Learning to read will be a huge step in your learning for your child. Above all, do not pressure a child or try to force him to read ahead of time. You must wait for him to be ready, to show interest, and to see him with enthusiasm to learn. This is the ideal time to help you. We give you these 10 tips to teach your child to read. Aim !: 1. Read a lot to your child Nothing like reading to a child to encourage him to read and make him interested in learning to read. If you read to your child and you get him to be passionate about what you are reading, he will immediately become curious about learning to read more and more stories for himself. And reading a lot means reading every day since your child is a baby. Of course, at first, you should use stories with lots of colorful illustrations. 2. Ask him constantly about what you are reading to him Even if he is a baby, and you think that he will not understand ... of course he does! Help him improve his reading comprehension by cons...
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7 steps to teaching a child to swim

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 Swimming is not only a very useful training to prevent child drownings but it is very beneficial to increase the respiratory and lung capacity of children and encourage psychomotor development. Every year, especially during the summer and on vacation, the cases of drowning children increase. The best way to avoid this is by teaching them to swim as soon as possible. Babies can begin to have their first contact and lose their fear of water through midwifery,  a modality that allows parents to dive into the pool and perform simple, fun exercises and games with their babies. But what happens when the baby grows? How can we teach him to swim and move through water without parental help? Here are some tips. 1. Losing fear The first thing you have to achieve is that the child loses his fear of water and feels safe. The sooner your child becomes familiar with water, the better. You can start in 3 months. If the baby's first contact with water is with his parents, he will feel confid...
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Teach children to swim in 7 steps

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 Swimming is one of the best sports for children. Not only does it represent a very useful training that reduces the risk of drowning, but it also contributes to expanding their lung capacity, promotes oxygenation, and stimulates children's psychomotor development. In addition, it improves the coordination of movements, strengthens the muscles, and favors their ability to move. And if that wasn't enough, it is an excellent exercise to relax children, while helping them to sleep better and get more rest. However, many times parents wait until their children are older to start them swimming. However, the truth is that the younger they are, the faster they will learn to swim. This is because they still retain the apnea and swim reflex, an involuntary response from when they were in the amniotic fluid inside their mother's uterus, which will allow them to function more easily in water. Another great advantage of teaching them while they are young is that they will present less ...
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How to teach my child to read and write

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 Literacy is the child's first contact with formal education. In the process, she learns that studying is a stimulating and rewarding task, or, depending on the methods and explanations adopted by her educators, she learns that studying can also be a tiring, boring and unproductive task. For this reason, it is very important that you, father, mother, or educator, know the correct methodology for literacy and organize your classes based on the right principles. If you are looking for complete literacy material, check out our Training 1 (click here): didactic material specially developed for teaching reading and writing. How to begin? First, try to understand the perspective of the illiterate child. What does she think and feel when she sees a text? You can get a rough idea by doing the following exercise: Can you say what the title of this newspaper headline is about? Probably not. To begin to understand, someone may have to show you a related image and explain what each symbol mean...
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How to teach a child to read: are you doing it right?

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 Children's literacy is a long process and, to be developed in a healthy and productive manner, you should consider several points. It is essential to ensure that this period of life has adequate conditions for the absorption of knowledge, both in a behavioral and technical way. One of the main points is that forcing the child to do some task is not at all advantageous - like forcing reading, for example. Over time, these “forced” activities will be associated with punishment, increasing the child's disinterest. One of the main ways to encourage children 's reading is usually at home. During growth, the child has his parents as a reference and is inspired by his attitudes and way of life. Therefore, when the child sees his mother reading, the child will become interested in the activity and gradually start to acquire reading habits. The beginning of literacy Some parents do not know the healthiest methods on how to teach a child to read and can, indirectly, cause the child...
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