Help Your Child Become A Phonics Reading Pro

Phonics Reading and the Learning Styles, Final Notes

There will probably be some overlap between the four main learning styles that you will observe in your child that I have recently outlined in the series of posts on recognizing your child’s specific learning style.

After you observe your child and figure out her dominate style…your approach to teaching her phonics reading will be easier and more effective.

In my Phonics Reading System, I have addressed all four of the learning styles so you can just follow, step by step, and have great results.

One benefit of knowing your child’s dominant learning style is that when you want to play phonics games with her, you can just use the games that are geared more towards her specific learning style.

Scientific studies have shown that when you engage three senses while performing any given task…it becomes permanent knowledge assimilated by the brain…after doing it just five times.

Another one of the great benefits of my Phonics Reading System is that it engages at least three senses at all times, and many times it engages four of the senses.

If you don’t already have my Phonics Reading System, get yours today. You’ll be glad you did.

Happy learning,

Victoria Pugh

Phonics Reading and the Kinesthetic Learner

When your child is becoming a phonics reading pro, look out for the following signs to see if she is a dominant kinesthetic learner.

First, notice to see if she easily gets distracted by activity around her when she is working on her phonics reading and trying to concentrate.

Does she constantly feel the need to get up and move around the classroom?

Does she have high energy and enjoy action oriented play?

Does she prefer figuring things out on her own rather than following directions?

 If you answered yes to the questions above, more than likely, your child is a kinesthetic learner.

It is truly amazing to watch how a kinesthetic learner engages whatever they are trying to learn with full body, physical activity.

When your little phonics reading pro is building words…nine times out of ten, she will lie on her stomach and sprawl out comfortably and tune out everything else in the process while she works.

She learns as she is in the process of doing. She doesn’t think about it first and then try to figure it out. She just does it! Then the magic happens, she gets it along the way as she is actually doing it.

Never try to pin her down to a seat. That would be a big mistake and cause her learning experience to be difficult and negative.

Kinesthetic learners are very creative and artistic. They enjoy and thrive when engaging in scientific experiments.

Sports, dramatic play, and dance, are all things that are fun and easy for the kinesthetic learner.

Kinesthetic learners have great hand to eye coordination.

When they are older students, it would be great to teach them how to use their “mind’s eye” to visualize and recall their own body’s movements (as they were at the time of a particular lesson) when  are trying to recall information from prior lessons. They will benefit greatly from learning that technique. And it will be easy for them to do so.

Playing music in the background when a kinesthetic learner is studying will be okay and not distract from their learning experience…especially if you are playing upbeat classical music.

Phonics reading will be easier and more fun for the kinesthetic learner if you use these tips.  Happy learning

Phonics Reading for the Tactile Learner

When your child is becoming a phonics reading pro, look out for the following signs to see if she is a dominant tactile learner.

First, notice to see if she easily gets distracted by random movement and activity around her while she’s working on her phonics reading and trying to concentrate.

Next, does she prefer to write down words or write out a story as she has perceived it or wants to tell it?

Does she prefer to touch and feel story books with the raised fabric on the pages rather than listen to the story or just flip through the pages and look at the pictures?

Does she like to express herself with gestures and movement?

Does she like to write her words to see if they feel right to her after she has put them down on paper?

If you answered yes to most of the questions above, more than likely, she is a tactile learner.

Using flash cards and memory games would be great avenues to help her learn her lessons.

Allow her to act out; by role playing, whatever she is working on…this will make it much easier for her to understand it and to remember it.

When she is older and studying for her school assignments, quiz and coach her by enacting scripted plays of what she is working on.

She will learn her lessons best by experiencing them through acting out the particular events and information.

It will be hard for her to learn if she is forced to sit still for long periods of time. Schedule much needed breaks for her to move around.

Let her build models of what she is studying. That will yield great results too.

It would be a very good idea to allow her to pursue whatever sports activities that is of interest to her as well.

She would also be great with martial arts and dance.

It’s okay to have noise in the background, more than likely, that will not bother her.

Phonics reading will be easier and more fun for the tactile learner if you use these tips. Happy learning!

Phonics Reading and the Auditory Learner

When your child is becoming a phonics reading pro, look out for the following signs to see if she is a dominant auditory learner.

First, notice to see if she easily gets distracted by random sounds or noises while she’s working on her phonics reading and trying to concentrate.

Next, does she prefer to listen to a story being told rather than flipping through the pages of the book and looking at the pictures?

Does she ask you to “say that again” or “tell me what you said”?

Does she prefer that you  give her verbal instructions rather than written ones?

Does she ask you to play sounding out words more often than not?

Do you notice that when she builds words using the picture cards and moveable alphabet…she spends more time in the phase of sounding out the words rather than building them?

Does she enjoy listening more than speaking?

Does she seek to “hear” “tune in” and “think” more often than not?

Do you notice that she repeats information that she is learning out loud and focuses on what she is repeating intently?

If you answered yes to most of the questions above, more than likely, she is an auditory learner.

Use tape recorded lessons to help her fully understand at a deeper level whatever lessons she is working on.

When she is older and studying for her school assignments, quiz and coach her by practicing with oral exams, playing tape recorded lectures, speeches, and any oral instructions.

Try to avoid having unnecessary noises in the background while she is studying. Although, it would be a great idea to play soft ,classical music that she enjoys because they would enhance her learning.

Phonics reading will be easier and more fun for the auditory learner if you use these tips.  Happy learning!

Phonics Reading and the Visual Learner

When your child is becoming a phonics reading pro, look out for the following signs to see if she is a dominant visual learner.

First, notice to see if she easily gets distracted by clutter or others moving around while she’s working on her phonics reading and trying to concentrate.

Next, does she prefer seeing pictures, words, diagrams, charts, videos, slide shows, and wall posters?

Does she prefer using picture clues and verbal instructions rather than just verbal directions alone when you are playing games?

Does she remember the faces of new friends and where their play date was pretty easily but then forgets their names?

Does she use words often that ask you to show her rather than tell her something?

Does she find it hard or boring to listen to instructions for more than a few minutes at a time?

Is it easy for her to conjure up vivid pictorial scenes from her imagination?

If you answered yes to most of the questions above, more than likely, she is a visual learner.

Use picture cards and moveable alphabets more to help her learn phonics reading.

When she gets older, give her the “big picture” of what she is studying and then fill in the details. Teach her how to work with mind maps. Give her the tools she needs to use symbols to represent ideas and organize information. The images will help her to focus and visualize data.

If she has to memorize information, have her close her eyes and see what it is that she is memorizing…tell her to pretend her mind is a camera and take a picture of the information in small chunks.

Learning meditation would be an asset too because it will teach her how to “tune out” distractions that would otherwise make it hard for her to focus.

Phonics reading will be easier and more fun for the visual learner if you use these tips.  Happy learning!

Phonics Reading and Learning Styles

My phonics reading system addresses the four learning styles of visual, auditory, tactile and kinesthetic learners. That is really important because children and adults too, fall into one of these groups and maybe even more than one of the groups…but one group will usually be dominant.

When you play a phonics game with your child, it is important to focus on the learning style that he is the most comfortable with and that produces the fastest and easiest results.

I will share some tips with you to help you figure out which one of the four learning styles is your child’s dominant learning style. But don’t worry too much about it; I have automatically built in lots of practice for your child in my Phonics Reading System, no matter which learning style suits him best.

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 I just want you to be able to recognize the subtle clues your child is displaying for you. That way, when you work with him on other lessons…and different subjects, you will be able to make it much easier for him...and a lot more fun too.

 In my next post, I will show you the language and behavior of the “visual” learner. Then the next post will be all about the language and behavior of the “auditory” learner. Following that post will be another one about the “tactile” learner. And finally, to wrap up this review on the four learning styles will be the “kinesthetic” learner.

I hope you enjoy this series of blog posts.

If you have any questions, please ask me about your most burning questions in the comment section.

Stay tuned! We at phonics reading pro are here to help make learning fun and easy.