Fun Games that Promote Thinking While researching educational products to help students learn thinking skills, I came across some great games. Since this is the time of year parents search for great gifts, I thought I would share my findings with you. In order to make my list of great games, a product must require skill, not luck to win.
» Read moreProcessing Speed What most parents ask me is,” What does this mean for my child? Why is this important?” There is now an overload of information given out. Definitions and diagnoses are easy to find, the hard part is figuring out how this affects the everyday life of your child and what you can do to help. The thing about
» Read moreA parent emailed with this question: “George has had many eye exams,but his reading skills are still poor. I really want to find someone who is good at sorting out how much of his learning issues are vision related and how much is from learning or processing issues. Can you help?” To tell the difference between a learning issue and a
» Read moreMany parents ask me what they can do at home to help their child with reading skills. Schools have been stressing phonic skills (rightly so), but little is done to strengthen visual processing skills. Reading, writing and math all require strong visual processing skills. To read fluently a child must be able to quick discriminate between letters (b/d, p/q, m/w,
» Read more1. Make sure your child understands the concept Use Manipulatives ( beans, blocks, pennies) to help build the problems Use manipulative to solve the problems Solve the problem without manipulative 2. Do a pretest and see what your child already knows. 3. Practice the facts: Create flashcards http://www.aplusmath.com/flashcards/Flashcard_Creator.html Play games with dice: Use a timer and 2 die, roll the dice
» Read moreMy child’s reading fluency has really improved! When can I expect to see an improvement in his spelling? This recent question from a parent about her fifth-grade son is an excellent one, and is relevant to many students. Therefore, I’d like to share our answer. In researching the relationship between reading fluency and spelling skills, we found that reading instruction
» Read moreTo teach thinking skills you first have to teach children to stop and think. This process needs to start when children are young and it can be developed as they grow older and are required to do deeper thinking. Why is executive functioning such a growing issue with middle school students? This is a skill that is not automatically achieved
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