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Are you looking for activities to help your child develop some essential skills needed for effective reading and spelling? Try these |
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activities which are often used by qualified therapists, yet simple enough to be confidently used by anyone to help a struggling child.
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| Is your child distressed by a learning disability? Is he or she struggling at school, and experiencing failure despite their best efforts?
If you are feeling overwhelmed and helpless in the face of a learning disability How Can I Help This Child? is for you. Teachers, parents, and anyone involved in the life of a learning-disabled child will find this handbook offers hope to those without professional support, and additional support for those with it.
Written in clear, simple language, here is real support for helping children learn how to learn, including: |
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- advice on finding out what is wrong and what can be done to help,
- up-to-date information, with clear and practical advice on living with a learning-disabled child,
- simple, effective activities for improving reading and spelling skills.
To order your copy today at just R72.90 contact:
Shuter & Shooter Publishers (Pty) Ltd at www.shuters.com or
email sales@shuters.com
ISBN 0-7960-2849-4
Shuter & Shooter (Pty) Ltd
21c Cascades Crescent, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa 3201
Did you know that there are an estimated 88,500 words in printed school English? And, did you know that the 26 letters of our alphabet can produce about 577 different possible combinations of letters and sounds? For the child with learning disabilities, learning to read and spell is almost certain defeat. Unless he is taught strategies to help him learn. Used consistently and systematically, this program will improve your child's reading and spelling skills. You will see results.
Find out how.
The most common cause of reading difficulties in early reading (grades 1 - 3) is the difficulties some children experience in the understanding and use of the phonological features of language.
What does this mean? How can I help my child if he has this problem?
Read more and find out what activities you can use to develop your child's phonological awareness.
- Alphabet Cards
Use the alphabet letters and pictures to teach your child the correct names and sounds of the letters of the alphabet. As you teach a specific letter, cut it out and let your child colour it in. It is very important that your child is able to identify the correct sound of each letter.
- Recipes
Use these recipes to make some aids for teaching phonological awareness. Encourage your child to shape letters out of play dough, salt dough (for a set of letters to keep and use over and over) or even biscuit dough. When he is actively involved in making the letters, he will remember them better. Don't teach too many letters at a time as this will just confuse him. Rather choose 2 or 3 letters and make sure he knows their names and sounds by heart before moving on to the next 2 or 3 letters.
Some words cannot be decoded easily, and your child should know them by sight - we call them sight words. High frequency sight words can make up more than 50 percent of the words we read and often cause problems. When a child masters sight words he experiences success in at least half of what he's reading. Use the following activities to help your child learn sight words.
- High Frequency Sight Words
- High Frequency Flashcards
Click on the above High Frequency Flashcards link to download Lists 1 to 11 or alternatively click on the necessary List link below to download the list
you require.
- Speed Drill Graph
- Bingo
"We hear, we forget
We see, we remember
We do, we understand."
Ancient Chinese Proverb
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