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Help for Your Students Who Never Seem to “Get It”

12 Jul, 2016

  Teachers know there is a long list of reasons to make reading a lifelong habit: the cognitive workout we get when we read and the exposure to new ideas are arguably top reasons to be a regular reader. So, when a student (who otherwise has adequate decoding skills) is unenthusiastic about books, regardless of…

Ready or Not, Here Comes School: Tips for Your Young Learner

8 Jul, 2016

A generation ago, kindergarten days were filled with activities like finger painting, “Hide-and-Go-Seek”, making friends and learning to be peaceful at nap time.   And, while reading and spelling may have been introduced in first grade, there was nothing like today’s pressure for students to be performing according to grade-level standards. Sure, there is still…

Bedtime Reading 101: How and Why to Make the Most of this Important Activity

24 Jun, 2016

Bedtime reading can take children to a safe and enchanted world for a few minutes each night; and when kids are cozy and comfortable, reading aloud to them can help them “de-compress” from any worries from the day. Reading to your child is also a special time to be close to your child and bond…

Tips for Parents of Kids with a Comprehension Weakness: The Imagery-Language Connection at Home

17 Jun, 2016

When a student has an identified comprehension weakness, parents might pursue help for their academics. Unfortunately, language comprehension troubles can affect family life, too.   A primary cause of language comprehension problems is difficulty creating an imagined gestalt. This is called weak concept imagery. This weakness causes individuals to get only “parts” of information they…

I Hate Reading!: Tips for Helping Your (very) Reluctant Reader

6 May, 2016

  Do you have a child who would rather wash the dishes or help with the laundry than read a book? Do you have to beg and plead with them to sit down and read, whether it’s for school or fun? Maybe they even say they “hate reading.”   It’s hard to know how to…

I See Movies in My Head: The Key to Reading Comprehension

15 Feb, 2016

Most reading experts agree on one thing: In order to comprehend what they read, students must have strong decoding skills and adequate oral vocabulary. In other words, a child must be able accurately decode every word on the page, and know what all of the words mean.

Neurological Activity and Comprehension Skills Improve for Students on the Autism Spectrum

24 Jan, 2016

The University of Alabama at Birmingham   The University of Alabama at Birmingham’s Cognition, Brain and Autism Center collaborated with Lindamood-Bell Learning Processes to study the comparative effects of Visualizing and Verbalizing (V/V) on the brains of children on the Autism Spectrum. This fMRI study, highlighted in two recent peer-reviewed papers, examined activity in the…

“This is BORING!”: The #1 reason kids say this (It’s not what you think!)

2 Sep, 2015

“This is BORING!”: The #1 reason kids say this (It’s not what you think!) If you are looking for ideas for “engaging topics” you may want to stop reading. Really. This article is for the homeschool teachers who have excellent materials and ideas but are still experiencing frustration over kids who “hate reading,” and seem…

A New Study About Mental Images

26 Aug, 2015

For more than thirty years, Lindamood-Bell co-founder Nanci Bell has been working to educate parents, education professionals, and researchers about what she identified as concept imagery ability. Published in 1986, her book Visualizing and Verbalizing for Language Comprehension and Thinking discusses concept imagery ability, and concept imagery weakness, a condition that scientists are recently terming aphantasia. Visualizing and…

The Key to Reading Confidence

23 Dec, 2014

The processing of parts instead of the whole (gestalt) contributes to a range of learning difficulties.

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