For someone nearing or in first grade, learning how to read can appear magical and mysterious. Young children are often confused and discouraged when they observe peers who "get" reading without effort, while they struggle with the simplest text.
The Reading Clinic shows these little ones that they can figure out how to deal with the parts of the process so that they can master reading. Using their own acute awareness, derived from sensory observation, they learn not only how to read, but how to solve problems, breaking a large task down into components.

As they discover and label how they make sounds, children can use articulatory feedback, (feeling), to separate and blend the individual sounds in syllables. The Reading Clinic plays into this by adapting the *Lindamood Phoneme Sequencing® to develop phonemic awareness for these younger students. When they understand how to sequence and identify individual sounds, or phonemes, the symbol-sound relationship becomes clearer, and children can start to unravel the code.

While they are strengthening their awareness of phonetic processing, we also help young children develop visual memory for letters, words and patterns in words with a modified version of another * Lindamood -Bell® program, * Seeing Stars®. Making a kinetic connection to letter formation, they use a finger to "write" in the air and on surfaces, and begin creating mental images of letters and words. As they can read more sight words, children move more quickly through the words on the page, and have less difficulty reproducing these words when they are spelling.
At The Reading Clinic, we demonstrate to young children that learning to read does not have to be a daunting, incomprehensible and fearsome task. Children also begin learning a valuable lesson for life that overcoming difficulties is a matter of taking that first step, then following it with the next.



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