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Hi Alaka Das – the Little Reader cards are for optional use. A number of the topics overlap with the existing flashcards. I made them quite a while back but I’ve been made aware that you must now purchase the software to use the files so I don’t use the program to make flashcards anymore. Since I have resources I have created there, I share them so parents who already have the software can access them.Topics can be used for speed play/knowledge/reading – it depends on what you wish to focus on.
Hi Gowri Vaidyanadham – the template is the same as the one used for the basic. You only one set of tangrams for all the puzzles. The colours are only required for the basic puzzle set.
Hi Priyaa – Yes. This has been noted and all new flashcards are created with words and pictures separated. I have not had time to go back to edit the other flashcards, but if there are specific topics you would like to see separated, let me know and I will edit those.
Hi Rochna Sharma – Most activity sheets are usually aimed at children 3 and up but I would say it depends on the child. Some are more ready than others to do activity sheets. You can try introducing it and see how your child takes to it. The ones the kids usually do in RBE classes are similar to this activity book by School Zone – https://amzn.to/3vk6fRU If you can find books like this, that’s a good place to start.
At this age, I think it is more important to develop pencil skills and the hand muscles to hold the pencil. It is very tiring to hold a pencil and many young children can’t do it for long before their hands get tired. They also tend to grip the pencil too tightly at the start which makes it worse. Even for us as adults, if we don’t write by hand for a long time, it’s tiring to write pages of handwritten text. I noticed it myself when I started to keep a written journal. It was one thing to jot down a few words on a shopping list but something else completely to write a whole page of words.
Many children get put off writing because their hands hurt. It is important to build the hand muscles required for writing. You can also do this by encouraging your child to do some pencil work daily and think of it as exercise – if you don’t do it regularly, you can’t get fit. If your child doesn’t pick up a pencil regularly, it’s hard to build the muscles required to use the pencil so they can keep going for longer. The activity can be anything from colouring to freestyle drawing to tracing lines on paper (this is usually the beginning of writing – learning pencil control). Here’s an example: https://i.pinimg.com/originals/4c/e1/51/4ce151983595fedbc8578e9328119a84.jpg?fbclid=IwAR0H5yumo0Do5CbmQA965_1GYBGWZ6wJSbITw310n8fit1kVoArjJ6P04p0You can also help your child build their fine motor skills with activities that help them practice the pincer grip (e.g. using clothes pegs, pincers to pick up things, threading beads). These activities can be done alongside any pencil work.Activities like writing on a whiteboard can help your child practice writing skills but are not as tiring as writing with a pencil because the marker runs more easily on the board than a pencil on paper. Fat pencils and triangular-shaped pencils are also easier for little ones to hold.I’ve gone off tangent from your question, but I hope that helps.Hi Guduri Alekhya – Linking Memory is not ordered so it doesn’t matter if the order is incorrect. However, you will have to change the story and come up with your own because you need to link each image with the next one and the original story will no longer make sense.The other alternative is to follow the method they use in Heguru for double-sided flashcards. I’m presuming that your double-sided printing shows card 1 with images 1 and 2; card 2 with images 3 and 4; card 3 with images 5 and 6, and so on… is this correct?If this is the case, you can still use the original story by holding up the first card showing image 1 to your child and telling the story. Then turn over the card and tell the story of the back side of the card. Put the card at the back of the deck and repeat with card 2.
So for the first 100 linking memory cards, you show the rabbit, turn the card over and show the house. Move that card to the back of the deck. The next card facing forward should be the strawberry. Turn that over to show the flower and move the card to the back of the deck. The third card facing forward should be the hot chocolate. Turn it over to show the socks. Then move the card to the back of the deck.
Hi Apeksha Jangde – POI is not intended to be used for speed flashing. You are encouraged to cover the facts quickly but it does not have to be as fast as the speed play flashcards. Here your goal is to convey information.
You could use them as home-made books but I feel they are not ideal. The language is more complex and the format is not conducive for encouraging a young child to read it.
Home-made books are meant to encourage children to read for themselves. It should be a book that a child will want to pick up to read on their own. The book topics should be tailored to your child’s interests and it should be fun to read.Your goal for flashing is usually about a second a card. The only way to do it faster is through practice. Heguru teachers will practice reciting the flashcards without the children present to help them get used to flashing quickly and saying the words quickly. This is often not practical for a parent who is busy with many other things so the best way is for you to use a speed that is as fast as you can go without compromising accuracy – i.e. stumbling on your words or fumbling with the cards.
Hi Mas – 150 words is a good start. You can start introducing couplets to show how words go together – this is the start of learning to read from books where there are multiple words combined. You can follow the couplets from the Doman program – https://rightbrainchild.com/2020/12/02/doman-reading-program/ or make your own relating to your child. After couplets, we introduce phrases – they are not quite complete sentences but are nearly there. Couplets are two words. Phrases are several words together but are not complete sentences on their own.
Once you have covered phrases, you can move on to homemade books. You can also continue with single words to review old words or introduce new ones to expand your child’s vocabulary. You do not need to stop one to do the other. Once your child is confident with reading simple books on their own, you can focus on introducing more complex books that you read together, while your child reads the easy books on their own.
Remember that even though a child can read, looking at books where there are lots of words on a page can still be daunting. This is where reading together helps. It encourages your child to read harder books that they wouldn’t pick up on their own.
Hi Mas – Shichida’s home practice was meant to be done once a day. The only time he suggested doing more than once is when you need to break up your sessions because your child is no longer attentive. In this case, it is not so much a repeat but a continuation of what was not completed.
Hi Preeti Gupta – the easiest option is to print them as is and flash them together sitting on the same side as your child. If you wish to sit facing your child, you will have to move the words to the back of the card. There is really no quick and easy way to do this other than to manually remove them and add them onto the back.
I have a series of flashcards on the general knowledge page –
https://rightbrainchild.com/2020/06/09/general-knowledge-flash-cards/ – some of these are in the format of the word first followed by the picture. If you print these double-sided, you may be able to arrange the print so that the word is printed behind the picture. Do you want to try that to see if that works? If it does, I can change the format of future flashcards to word and picture separately so they can be printed double-sided or used digitally.
If you have a 5 month baby, you can focus on flashcards because RBE at this age is input only. Since you have an older child, I would also encourage you to have your lessons with the older child while your baby is present. Children can learn a lot more by observing an older child learning. This is a benefit of teaching multi-aged children.
Ordinarily, for the infant RBE classes, parents attend and do the activities in the presence of the child so they can learn through observation. This is achieved by having your younger one observe the older one doing the activities that your baby will also be doing when old enough.
Yes. Speedplay is one of the mainstay RBE activities from Shichida and can be done with children up to 6 years.
Shichida says that you can break up the flashcards sessions if you cannot complete all in one session. It is better to do this than keep going when your child is no longer paying attention.The weekly program can and should be tailored according to your child. Every child is different and we must take this into consideration when planning the learning for our children. What works for one family may not work for another so we cannot expect to have a set format for everyone to follow.What is important is exposure to experiences that engage all senses, reading together as much as possible, hands-on activities, physical development. Supplemented with the flashcards program for building knowledge. Combining these in ways that work for your child and it will provide a great foundation for your child’s later years.From: Sowjanya Penmetsa
From the above suggestion.. is speed play helps for brain activation for 3.3 year old. if yes,
1. All the cards of each category(around 80-110 cards / category) should be flashed at one. .
2. Complete weekly program should be done at once or divide like morning speed play , afternoon math, eve reading like that.
