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Thinking Games for Kids

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Good reference for educators. I was able to get more ideas on how to develop more effective lesson plans to motivate the students.

Helpful Notes:

If child is resilient, don't force the games on him.

Children with strong verbal skills and a solid foundation in reading are ready to succeed in the classroom, and that success will prepare them for the increasingly complex world in which we live.

By age of eight, child's measurable intelligence is developed.

Phonemic awareness significantly improves his success in learning to read.

English language contains 44 of these phonemes, combinations of them create all the words in the language.

Code of speech is needed to understand; words are made up of individual sounds; words have meanings (association);

Spoken word can be represented with printed symbols; symbols are written and can be read.

Phonemic awareness, the ability to hear and work with the sounds in words is an essential pre-reading skill. According to Keith Stanovich, a reading researcher, it is the best predictor of early reading acquisition, even better than IQ. Most reading specialists agree with him.