Learning To Read

Recognizing the Two Ways to Learn to Read

There are probably an infinite number of ways to teach reading. Even so, certain teaching methods work better for teachers simply because these methods more closely mimic the way we first learn as babies.

OK. So this makes sense. Use human nature to design teaching methods. Unfortunately, this logic is simpler stated than practiced. Why? Because by five, most kids have already lost access to some of their senses. In effect, they have already incurred wounds to certain senses and so, have become less sensitive to these senses. An example?
Some kids are said to be “visual” learners. Some are said to be “auditory” learners. And some are said to be “tactile” learners.

Unfortunately, people do not see these conditions as injuries but rather as each child’s nature.

It this right? I believe not. In fact, I am certain that all young children incur injuries to their senses which make them less sensitive to some senses than to others. No surprise that by five, most children have developed biases toward their least injured senses.
How do children respond to these sensory biases?

They favor teaching methods which focus on their least injured senses. Which means they miss out on much of the nature of what they are being taught.

Is there anything which can be done to change these biases though?

Yes, there is. In fact, in the past nine years, I have repeatedly been able to help people who say they are not visual learners to use visualization to heal. In fact, I have been able to help people with all of the learning-sense biases to use vision to heal.

It seems, then, that while children do in fact experience injuries to their five senses early on, injuries that bias their learning style, that seeing things on the screen of the mind is a way for people to bypass these injuries.

This, then; visualization on the screen of the mind; is what I see as the “natural way” for children to learn. And what every baby has in common. Enter Emergence.

Emergence is based entirely on examining peoples’ abilities to draw on the screen of their minds. In fact, this ability is at the heart of how we help people to heal their injuries, including injuries to their senses.

How? We focus entirely on what is visually missing rather than on what is visually present, on what they can’t see rather than on what they can see..

What follows, (See Next Post) then, is a brief explanation of how this focus applies to teaching children to read, and how by focusing on what is visibly present, most teachers really prevent children from learning to read more than teach them to read.

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