Can your distinctive student improve his or her reading skills?

You can improve your child's reading ability in ways that sound like play.

Let's start with a better understanding of readiness to read. It’s not about how quickly they can finish a timely maths question, or how neatly they print. Learning readiness occurs after the basic skills have been developed.

Ready-to-read students know how to take and make sense of the information around them. They can see patterns. They can consider different meanings before selecting the most likely ones. This kind of problem-solving should happen when doing math, reading, and writing. However, these skills are developed outside the classroom first.

You can't accomplish this with multiple math worksheets or print practice. How can you help your unique student improve his or her reading ability? The answer may surprise you.

Learning readiness occurs only when the building blocks of development begin to work. If your different student has growth spaces, do not despair. These gaps can be filled with activities that sound like play.

Here are three ways to use play to improve your student's learning readiness.
Try One Time Again

The first area you need to focus on is developing your child's ability to practice the "try one-time" techniques.

Start by extending your child's attention by "staying there" for a while. Play with that toy for a while, work on solving that difficult puzzle for a moment, read for a moment, and encourage them to "stick" to the task you have given them, just a moment.

Make this your goal, designed to help your child, keep it a secret. Without further ado, start by imitating the behavior you play when you play together.

If you are playing a game with toy cars, extend the game for a while by adding a new and creative feature. Maybe you enjoyed driving cars in a parking lot at a fake zoo.

When your child reads a story, have him or she look at pictures for a moment. Ask your child to describe all the red objects in the picture or all that make a sound.

Design a new way to play with the back bowling set and teach your child to expand his or her imagination.

Teaching your child to stretch his or her mind to "play longer" will help improve attention span for educational activities.

Look for opportunities to let your child "think more" or "try one more time". Encourage and support their effort. Help your child to enjoy hearing his or her mind successfully wrap around the problem.

Teaching your child to "stay there", solving a problem, and making a single effort can help keep the mind busy in a productive way. That might be trying another time to find a lost sock or to solve problems on how to put that bicycle back on the bike rack. It could be to find the best solution to the riddle of the day or to complete their task independently.

We want kids to enjoy using their minds and develop strategies to "try again ...". They will need them at school and for the rest of their lives.

Improve Location Awareness

Ready to read, write, and do math requires careful planning. If local awareness is not innate and natural for a child, academics will be a challenge.

This means that children must understand three-dimensional space. They should be able to navigate their physical body in, over, under, through, around, and explore all the local physical relationships.

Navigating space seems easy to us because, with just a quick glance, we can easily see how we can navigate to the bathroom in a busy and unusual restaurant. The visual concept of space develops after the physical experience. We may not remember learning this skill, but we certainly did remember it.

Our children also need to learn this skill. They must learn the words to describe the physical realm and be able to distinguish themselves from that realm.

The ability to distinguish themselves and allow them to learn to look at objects, people, places, and objects in the space around them. This also develops the ability to judge the environment without physical movement.

Improving spatial awareness can be done very well with games. Here are some examples of games that children like to play that also improve environmental awareness:

• Simon says

• Hide and seek

• Red Light, Green Light

• Chutes and Ladders (board game)

• Obstacle studies

• Treasure hunting

Your child will not know that you are really working on improving his or her readiness to learn.

A distinct student with difficulty sequencing, thinking, and problem-solving independently needs physical activity (which is often more rewarding than extra homework) to facilitate effective thinking.

Balance and Movement

The ability to sense the earth's surface depends on a sensory system that detects movement related to the environment. This nervous system is a vestibular system. The vestibular system gives our brain a strong desire to maintain balance.

Our need for balance informs the muscular and joint system. The proprioceptive system allows the body to respond smoothly to different shifts in the middle of the gravity zone.

Many bodily functions require the integration of the vestibular system with the proprioceptive system.

If these programs work together properly, the student is ready to learn.

For many different students, these programs do not work well. This is the main reason for their educational struggle. It affects the ability to live in a place that is conducive to learning. It affects the learner's ability to look and hear. It distracts their focus on the level of ignorance as their brains pay attention to information from the vestibular system indicating that the student may fall out of a chair. Here are three ways in which hundreds of programs affect, learning readiness.

Exercise, exercise, sports, martial arts, yoga, dancing, and dancing all provide excellent opportunities for movement and balance to stimulate and help simplify brain function.

You can support your student's unique growth by embedding movement as part of the fat needed to grow the brain. The average student may appear to be responding well to exercise, to exercise, to exercise. The unique reader seems to respond better to performance, movement, familiarity, movement.