Interactive Pictures Help Improve Reading Talents
During youth, youngsters hear family members and often try and copy what they hear. As kids grow, associating symbols with sounds becomes critical to language development, and professionals say it’s more critical in learning to read than most parents realize.
When it comes to reading, kids must discriminate individual sounds before they can put them together to build words. Studies show playing rhyming games and sounding out words with your children helps develop their reading abilities. But what about watching TV?
According to a 2004 study made public in The Journal of Biological Psychiatry, associating symbols with sound, especially in the shape of story, plays a big role in the right development of reading abilities.
In the study, two groups of kids with poor reading skills were examined to figure out which learning approach was more effective: traditional remedial reading, special education, speech and language schooling or reading lessons built around sound and symbol associations contained in story. The group that was given reading lessons with sound and symbol associations enjoyed learning more and had a dramatic improvement in their reading talents and fluency.
Based totally on many research, one company has developed an enjoyable way for students to improve reading, understanding and development abilities early on, and it involves watching TV – particularly children’s pictures.
Reading Films, part of the ReadEnt learning program developed by SFK Media Specifically for Youngsters Co, are interactive flicks that use “Action Caption” technology to show the spoken word on the screen, in real time, as the personality speaks. The words appear out of the mouths of the speakers with clearness and with no interruption to the flow of the film. As children watch the movies, their reading and spoken language skills develop naturally.
Reading Movies are available in a collection of three DVDs featuring modifications of literary stories many know and love: Jules Verne’s “20,000 Leagues Under the Sea,” Jonathan Swift’s “Gulliver’s Travels” and “The Trojan Horse,” adapted from Homer’s “The Odyssey.” So what does this all mean for mothers and fathers? No more guilt for letting your youngsters watch Television.
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