Some cool things people can do
with the right resources,
and a lot of practice.
with the right resources,
and a lot of practice.
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Wim Hof, the Ice Man, can swim in icy waters that would kill most people.
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Terence Tao
photo attributed to: http://www.ipam.ucla.edu/news/royal-medal-awarded-ucla-professor/
At age two, Terence was teaching five-year-olds how to add and spell. He went on to work with Ben Green on the Green-Tao theorem about arithmetic progressions
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Potential Showing Even as a Baby
Dr. Titzer came under heavy fire when he claimed Babies can Read. Thanks to lawsuits and pressure, he changed the program to Babies can Learn and continued forward.
Author Angie Tebbs used the Babies can Read program with a few of her kids. The others she couldn't, either because they were too old, or she was too busy to be consistent.
The "natural" reading and spelling abilities of the ones with whom she completed the program are far beyond their age group abilities. She's never had to help them practice for their spelling tests, as they could spell even new words without much effort.
Those she did not complete the program with, she had to do daily practice both reading and spelling, heavily relying on phonogram drills to help them master written english. She saw personally some of the dyslexia people assume is genetic, because it runs in families. But genes aren't all that runs in families. So do attitudes, approaches, paradigms, and habits.
Angie believes dyslexia comes from how and when written words are introduced. Many pre-school shows have words flash on a screen. Those little, inexperienced brains treat those words like pictures. That's not how written english works. Our written language is a code-system. Letters represent sounds, and we read from left to right, and top to bottom. To add to the confusion, some letter combinations create new sounds.
s= "s" like snake, sail, and bliss h= "h" like house, happy, heart sh="sh" like ship, shape, and wish
Once kids understand the coding system, they can start catching on to patterns and phonograms. With enough practice, they can master even difficult words at very young ages.
What's really remarkable, is if this concept is introduced to a baby, their flexible and rapidly growing brains absorb the information far better and faster than when teaching an adult. As they grow older, others seeing them read may assume it's an innate ability instead of a trained skill.
Same goes for families who spend time with their children throwing and catching, having them play with balls even when a baby. Is it any surprise that such a child would show better skill at little league than a child who had no sports equipment around when they were little?
Author Angie Tebbs used the Babies can Read program with a few of her kids. The others she couldn't, either because they were too old, or she was too busy to be consistent.
The "natural" reading and spelling abilities of the ones with whom she completed the program are far beyond their age group abilities. She's never had to help them practice for their spelling tests, as they could spell even new words without much effort.
Those she did not complete the program with, she had to do daily practice both reading and spelling, heavily relying on phonogram drills to help them master written english. She saw personally some of the dyslexia people assume is genetic, because it runs in families. But genes aren't all that runs in families. So do attitudes, approaches, paradigms, and habits.
Angie believes dyslexia comes from how and when written words are introduced. Many pre-school shows have words flash on a screen. Those little, inexperienced brains treat those words like pictures. That's not how written english works. Our written language is a code-system. Letters represent sounds, and we read from left to right, and top to bottom. To add to the confusion, some letter combinations create new sounds.
s= "s" like snake, sail, and bliss h= "h" like house, happy, heart sh="sh" like ship, shape, and wish
Once kids understand the coding system, they can start catching on to patterns and phonograms. With enough practice, they can master even difficult words at very young ages.
What's really remarkable, is if this concept is introduced to a baby, their flexible and rapidly growing brains absorb the information far better and faster than when teaching an adult. As they grow older, others seeing them read may assume it's an innate ability instead of a trained skill.
Same goes for families who spend time with their children throwing and catching, having them play with balls even when a baby. Is it any surprise that such a child would show better skill at little league than a child who had no sports equipment around when they were little?
