This isn’t in English, but how fascinating is this video. A Moving MRI showing what happens when ee speak-regardless of the language.
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Parent-Tested, Expert-Recommended Advice for When Your Child Isn’t Reading Yet
by Laura Lambert
Anyone who’s spoken to me recently has gotten an earful about the topic of struggling readers, the pitfalls of new-fangled reading curriculums, the unreasonable demands of first grade and why don’t they just do worksheets in school anymore?! Mostly, I’m just grasping for something to blame or something to explain why my son, a first grader, seems to struggle so much with reading.
A young autistic man fights to help others, like him, who were born without the ability to communicate.
We will get Australian students back to the top of the class," Malcolm Turnbull declared last year as he announced David Gonski would lead an investigation into how to raise educational standards in Australian schools.
Alzheimer’s researchers have proposed a radical change in the way the disease is defined, focusing on biological changes in the body rather than clinical symptoms such as memory loss and cognitive decline.
Phonics test for year-one kids offers lots of benefits and no downside
Many people in education circles are keen for the impending Gonski 2.0 report. But their eagerness was far outweighed by educators' fervour to see the results of South Australia's trial of the contentious phonics check. The just-released evaluation confirms what the check's advocates have been arguing: children need it and teachers like it.
Why is self-regulation important for mental health?
Self-regulation skills are linked to how well children manage many other tasks during early childhood. For example, as a child learns how to self-regulate, skills such as concentrating, sharing and taking turns develop.
Reading fluency is the ability to read with sufficient ease, accuracy, and expression, providing a bridge between word recognition and comprehension. To help students become more fluent, many educators assume that reading more is the key, and therefore require students to read silently for several minutes a day. The problem, however, is that silent reading is not proven to help build reading fluency in struggling readers.
This article gives a brief introduction to language development and includes age-appropriate activities for language-building for children birth to 3 years old.