From Reading and Other Learning Disabilities

A Blog by Dr. Gary G. Brannigan & Dr. Howard Margolis

How to Reach Your Young Child Through 4 Sense Keys

A Guest Post by Nancy Cloyd

President, Literacy for Tykes

http://LiteracyForTykes.blogspot.com

Who is your child?  You can know your child better than anyone else.  You have a special place in his heart. He wants your attention.  Can you reach him?

There are Sense Keys you can use to open up his response: Sight, Sound, Touch, and Doing. After his basic needs of food and rest are met, He discovers everything through these senses.

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As you ride through town, you see words, words everywhere. Environmental print, as it is called, occurs in public places like restaurants, stores, on billboards along interstates and along streets throughout town, and in many other places. Most of us regularly traverse the same route; therefore, the environmental print which we encounter presents ideal opportunities to help children learn to read. Below are some ways in which parents can utilize this abundant and free reading material to encourage their child to begin to read or to become a better reader.

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