Robyn Papworth - how to support children who are finding reading stressful
Play Move Improve - Notes from webinar: Before learning to read we need to build the foundation for reading. visual tracking - mirror tracking starts from birth. ie when holding baby - visual tracking together, eye contact. This is how early visual tracking begins. Children watch faces, watch things drop, throw things. Try hiding things - encourage eyes/tracking to work harder - hide key feature required ie find the pencil. Saccades - jumping eyes from point to point. Persuit - smooth from start to finish egwatching car move across infront of us Fixation - eg stop a numberplate of car, ball - stick things on ball - watch ball then watch stop and fix on stop point. Classroom entry video available - 5 movements on video that can run children through after break. Nurses torch, some interesting point to focus on. Look left, look right, look up, look down. chin should be still. Lately Robyn has seen much whole head movement and increase of number of children finding this difficult. S...