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The 7 year old has had sensory issues since birth....We've done a lot of things to build a healthy sensory diet into her life and adapt where necessary...I've been lately wondering about Waldorf-y movement and learning to read.

She is reading with effort...and I'm suspected a vision processing issue...

I'm looking into ways to support her. I'm wondering what kinds of movement games other families have found useful.
post #2 of 6
Do you know about Brain Gym? It might be worth reading about and see if the ideas resonate with you. Re: waldorf....yes, there are ideas about movement in there, as well as the idea that kids will read when ready, but if you really think your child has some issues affecting reading you would be far better off looking at incorporating movement, a developmental visual check and skill building rather than a straight waldorf approach, IMO.
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Thanks karne! I've been pursuing other routes as well, but I'd like to find out more about how the holistic folks incorporate movement as regards reading.

I know a lot of folks like Brain Gym, but I found their stuff kinda slick feeling and their claims sound overblown (one movement together and a soccer team wins the championship kind of thing).
post #4 of 6
I strongly recommend the Movement guides from Enki Education. They are well suited to any child with sensory issues, and utilize brain gym techniques (amongst other things) but in a much more play based developmentally appropriate way, using song, story and rhyme.
post #5 of 6
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muse....I have the Enki first grade curriculum (which I was gifted by another mom). What pieces of the movement work did you use? How did it work for you?
post #6 of 6
Here are a few ideas. My son is just at the beginning of the reading journey, so we haven't used all of these yet, but I used to be a reading tutor, and these projects seemed to help out kids with various styles of learning.

-make an actual "Word Wall" for sight words. Take little pieces of clay, make them into minature bricks, and carve words into the bricks that your child needs to remember. Let them dry, and then use mortar (we use sand mixed with glue) to make them into a little wall on a piece of wood. Add to the wall as your child learns more words.

-Use sidewalk chalk to write outside on cement. Make hopscotch games incorporating words. Write gigantic poems that you can run through as you read, etc.

-Cut out vowel puppets. You can use cardboard and popsicle sticks. Make a long "A" which has a certain character, and a short "A" that has a different character. Let them play with different combinations of vowels and help the child learn the sounds that the vowels make when they interact.

-Use a magnetic poetry set on your refrigerator. This is a set of commonly (and not so commonly) used words that can be arranged however your child likes into poems.

Hope that helps. I don't know much about the specific Enki or Waldorf philosophies, so I don't know if these ideas fit into a holistic movement reading program. But I thought I'd toss them out there anyway.
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