Love This Kid!

It has become quite obvious that Eliana has a strong tendency towards the right side of her brain. Visual-Spatial it is often called. We have learned so much about the variance, and it is fascinating. Phonics are harder for kids who process in a visual-spatial way rather than an audio-sequential one. VS kids tend to learn in a whole to part process rather than a part to whole process. In other words they tend to get the big picture and fill in the details later, rather than putting the details together to get the whole picture. Phonics are surely possible, but many rb kids are considered late readers and then begin reading more suddenly in a whole-word method. They say this is because they develop their 3D visualization skills before the 2D visualization skills needed to read. This is also the reason they often write letters backwards for longer, they simply see the letters different. As if they could lift it off the page and spin it around with their eyes.

At this point Eliana is more interested in creating words than reading them. I think the many words on a page are visually overwhelming for her- but she is getting a surprisingly good grasp of phonics in the mean time. If I tell her a word breaks the phonics rules, she scrunches her nose at me as if she is contemplating rocket science. Ultimately she prefers to leave the word as it sounds to her, or as she knows it when it's a word she has simply memorized.

The above information is not at all vital to the story... I do that sometimes. Fascinating none the less though, no? ;o)

So Eliana asked for some celery at lunch, I informed her we were out but she could make a list on the board if she would like us to buy some... So she did.







And there it is... selre. Celery. And hotwel. Can't forget the hotwheels. I love seeing her words around the house, she is teaching me so much about trusting each person's inherent desire to learn in the best way possible for them as individuals. <3

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