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Baby Signing for Hearing Babies: Discovering an Innovative Way to Communicate
As a parent or caregiver it can be overwhelming at times, to figure out what your child’s needs and wants are. You think they want one thing, but you try giving it them and they push it out of the way adding to their frustration that you, their parent or caregiver, just “doesn’t know” what [...]
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Read to Your Child – No Matter How Young
It is never too early to read to your child. Even babies enjoy and benefit from the children’s books you read to them. They enjoy listening and interacting with you as you turn the pages of the book, point to the words on the pages, and look at the simple or colorful (and sometimes interactive) [...]
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Print Awareness
Knowing how to “use” a book seems like such a simple thing that does not need to be taught – holding a book right side up, opening a book from right to left, turning the pages from right to left, and knowing that we read the words starting at the left of the page and [...]
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How to Help Your Child Learn to Read
“How to Help Your Child Learn to Read” by K. Karl, is a short article found at associatedcontent.com which gives parents a few of the basics as they begin to discover ways to help their child become a good reader.
In this article, Karl points out some fundamental kindergarten reading skills which [...] -
Music in the ESL Classroom
Kenneth Beare wrote an article posted at About.com, titled “Music in the ESL Classroom”, which focuses on using music in the ESL EFL classroom. In this article, Beare talks about music being a key element in learning. The article goes on to explain how music can be used in various ways to activate vocabulary, encourage [...]
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Playing Music Can Be Good For Your Brain
Playing music can be good for your brain ~ Stanford study finds it helps the understanding of language
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Stanford University research has found for the first time that musical training improves how the brain processes the spoken word, a finding that researchers say could lead to improving the reading ability of children who have dyslexia and [...] -
Maia Davis Article
In a 1994 feature in the Los Angeles Times, writer Maia Davis describes a motor-skills class at an elementary school in Ventura, California: With all eyes trained on their teacher, the group of second-graders at Ventura’s Mound School tried to follow her every move as they clapped their hands, slapped their thighs, and kicked their [...]
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Learning Through Music
We found an interesting and inspiring article at www.edu-cyberpg.com by Kathryn Msterson which talks about using music to help children learn. In this article, it speaks of Joan Munro - a reading specialist at Worcester Elementary School in the Methacton School District who uses music to teach reading. This way of teaching reading [...]








