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Knowing consonant and vowel sounds is critical to reading. The answer for children who have trouble with vowels and other letter sounds is to use a right-brained approach! If you embed the letters in a picture that is the same shape as the letter and also starts with the sound of the letter, children will be able to use their amazing mental camera and their natural ability to remember visuals permanently. In addition, using the related body movement will be a vital learning tool for kinesthetic learners! Our Alphabet resources are designed to utilize images, body movements, and stories for maximum effectiveness. Find them here.
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Sight words are important because they make up 80-90% of the words children will see in text. Reading becomes much easier when children can recognize sight words instantly. Visual, tactile, kinesthetic learners and those with reading disabilities need more than plain text. Drilling will not help! Because SnapWords® incorporate visuals, children learn as easily as a mental camera snapping a picture and storing it in long term memory. Visuals are recalled with 90% accuracy, so there is little more effective than pictures for learning and recall. Adding a related body movement to the sight word picture completes the learning experience for kinesthetic learners. Finally, because SnapWords® pictures show the meaning of the words, comprehension is enhanced. Experience SnapWords® for yourself! Get SnapWords!
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Children need to be fluent with math facts for addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division – as all higher level math comes out of this foundation. Right-brain learners and kids with dyscalculia do not learn through memorization and drill. They need to visualize and understand what is happening in the problem. They need right-brained elements for learning including color-coding, pattern discovery, hands-on practice, story, visuals, and body movement. We have designed these right-brained resources for you. Get started today!
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Areas of difficulty in reading include knowledge of letter sounds, sounding out words, phonics rules, vocabulary, reading fluency, and comprehension. Most children who struggle with reading are right-brain, visual/spatial, or kinesthetic learners who don’t learn in traditional ways. These children learn visually and tactilely, when they see the big picture, when they can learn whole words first, when they can discover patterns that exist in words, etc. The world of reading will open up for your struggling reader when you use resources that are designed especially with the right-brained learner in mind. Start today!
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50-60% of students are right-brained learners, but traditional teaching resources are designed for left-brain dominant learners. If your child is struggling to learn, the first thing to do is try a right-brained resource to gauge its effectiveness. Right-brained learners include all children before the age of 7, those who are kinesthetic, visual, dyslexic, autistic, those with auditory processing disorder, and more. If children have the opportunity to learn from their strengths, they will always exceed expectations. Learn more.
Multisensory Educational Resources
Since its inception in 2006, Child1st has emerged as the leader in providing multisensory resources that parents and teachers can utilize without needing special training. Our products are researched-based and target multiple regions of the brain at the same time for a whole-brain learning experience. This means you can teach all children in their own learning language at one time. By their very design, Child1st resources meet the needs of children without the instructor needing to prepare lessons for different types of learners.
We are committed to making it possible for parents and teachers to achieve the high standard of successfully reaching all their learners. The result is that our products have become the go-to resource for those seeking to use a multisensory approach to teaching.
Child1st empowers beginners, visual-spatial and kinesthetic learners, and children identified with learning differences such as ADHD, autism, dyslexia, Down syndrome, and auditory processing to thrive! What all these children have in common is that they learn most easily when images, story, and body movement are fully integrated into their lessons. We exist so that every child has the opportunity to learn in their own learning language, and we trust that our collection of multisensory learning resources will continue to empower children around the world to learn confidently!
Our Story
Sarah Major, M.Ed. launched Child1st in February 2006 and began to share her breakthrough experiences working with her students with parents and teachers. Her absolute belief in every child’s ability to learn, and her passion to empower children by supporting their own unique giftedness have fueled her life’s work and provided a new pathway for children to succeed academically. Child1st began in a tiny home office and has grown through word of mouth to every US state and over 100 countries around the globe. Sarah is a mother, grandmother, teacher, and author who lives in Michigan. Read More
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Integrate sight word acquisition with essential components of reading, phonics, and spelling.
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