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linkspeed+-->引用:linkspeed 这个是我从 www.childbrain.org 找到的答案。 Can I Mix Words and Bits? I wanted to throw some additional comment into this. There are some parents who really like the format---word card, bit, word card, bit, etc. This is an available format on the picture dictionary cd's that is really well-liked. I have been cautioned against this by Carol Newell, but have a GREAT alternative. Create bits and create "matching" word cards. HOWEVER, when you show them, show them a complete set of words FIRST and then a complete set of bits. You are giving them the terrific information, but remember that you are stimulating different things with bits than you are with words. Mixing them isn't the greatest idea. I've known several parents who mixed words and bits---and their children liked the bits so much they really just ignored the words to get to the bits. Also, you are providing just one word of stimulation before you switch to another area of the brain, then just one bit before you are asking the cortex to switch to the higher skill of reading. It really waters down your "intensity" in the frequency, intensity and duration equation. It's a lot more intense to show 5 or 10 words, THEN 5 or 10 bit. Once you are ready to retire those words and bits, then you can play the matching game with the words and bits. This is a TON of fun and then they really get the association. At the How to Multiply course, they strongly cautioned against mixing words and bits. They had the same recommendation---show a set of bits and separately show a set of the matching words. As Donna mentioned, they said bits and words build separate pathways, and alternating a word with a bit does not help to build one pathway. If the word set is shown separately from the bit set, children will have no trouble making connection. We really need to pay attention to this issue that Donna mentioned about stimulation of different areas of brain. I've never notice this before. But to my experience, one word + one picture style doesn't extract kid's interest from words to picture only. They learn both information. Sometimes if kids are not interested in words, this way can gain back their interest in both words and picture. If the children have interest in both word and picture cards showing seperately, we'd follow Doman's suggestion to adjust our showing pattern as they may have scientific evidence for this issue. |
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