Reading and Your Child
Different children, different predictors of reading success.
Who do you think will be the more accomplished reader by the 3rd year in school? Child A uses higher level vocabulary (frustrated, someone, home), more complex sentence structure (to find someone had…), and is more specific and clear.
There’s lots of research to show that children who enter school with more developed language skills (like Child A) learn how to read more easily.
How do differences in language skills impact your child when beginning school?
On the graph below we can see the effects that weakness in oral language development has on children learning to read. Over time, small differences in oral language skills of 5 and 6 year old children grow into a significant reading gap by the time a child is in late primary school and secondary. The weak language foundation manifests into a huge literacy gap.
Reversing the Trend
Here’s the thing you can do: you can help your child’s language improve quickly and efficiently by using the best research on how the brain learns.
Fast ForWord was designed specifically to improve the underlying language skills that form the basics of learning and reading. Good curriculum, a language rich learning environment and Fast ForWord create an optimal foundation to help your child catch up.
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