Good Sensory Learning Blog

I'm so excited to tell you about my Reversing Reversals Beginners publication. This digital workbook is the fourth publication in my popular Reversing Reversals Series.   Why Did I Create Reversing Reversals Beginners? Upon request, I have created more fun activities that bridge the gap between Reversing Reversals Primary and the original Reversing Reversals. I have included more simplistic activities that strengthen visual processing, tracking, directionality, discrimination, pattern recognition and more. What Population of Learners are Served by this Workbook? I created the Reversing Reversals Series to help students with dyslexia to develop the core skills needed for reading and math. These...

Every teacher would love to ignite a love for reading and nurture voracious readers, but simply teaching your students how to read and asking them to read each night isn't necessarily going to help them comprehend the text that they are scanning. The key to helping your students get lost in the pages depends on whether they have developed 3 foundational cognitive skills.  What are The 3 Cognitive Skills? Automatized Naming (RAN): RAN or rapid naming is the ability to quickly verbalize a series of familiar items including letters, numbers, colors or objects. Research suggests that RAN is much like executive functioning...

Many teachers are aware of the four basic learning styles: visual, auditory, tactile and kinesthetic. But did you know that there are eight more common ways that the brain processes information? Accommodating these 12 ways of processing is a must these days and offering instruction as well as assignments that honor all these modalities helps to prepare our students for a future of life-long learning success.  Let’s Review the Four Basic Learning Styles: Visual Learning: incorporates pictures, drawings and even personal visualizations into lessons. This helps students learn through visual observation. Auditory Learning: involves learning through listening. This helps students to...