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Speech arrives on its own if a child is spoken to. Reading, writing and arithmetic do not, and it is no failing that they have to be taught piece by piece.
Children absorb talk from the people around them without lessons. Print is a much later invention and the brain has no ready made place for it, so it…
A child working words out from the pictures and the shape of the sentence is guessing well, not reading yet. It usually holds up until around the third year of school and then gives way, because the pictures stop and the words get longer.
Ask to hear the child read something with no illustrations and no predictable pattern. That is where you find out whether sounds and letters have…
When the usual route into reading or arithmetic does not form, children build another one, and it nearly always runs through memory. It works for years, and it costs far more effort than anyone watching realises.
This is the bright child who is somehow always tired, always slow with written work, quietly memorising what everyone else is working out. The route…
In most children attention and memory sit at roughly the same level. When memory is far ahead of everything around it, ask what it has been quietly making up for.
Only fair attention with an unusually strong working memory is a signal rather than a strength to celebrate. The memory is carrying something. Look…
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