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Educational Games Improve Learning Skills Quickly Part 2

November 2nd, 2011

The Best Educational Games for Families

When choosing educational games you want to choose wisely. You want games that are fun but will improve your child's skills at the same time. If your child has struggled or had and problems with reading comprehension or listening comprehension or math calculations, you want educational games that are specifically designed with them in mind.

Educational Games from Bonnie Terry, The Nation's Learning Expert

Bonnie Terry Learning offers a variety of educational games and products to improve reading, writing, math and study skills for children 6 years and older. The educational games were initially designed for the struggling learner but any learner will improve their skills with using them. The goal is to enable you to be better equipped to develop strong reading, writing and math skills in your child with dyslexia, ADHD, Autism or other general learning difficulties.  Even gifted children can struggle in some of these areas and Bonnie Terry aims at smoothing out those bumps in the road of learning.  These educational games help you “think outside the box” to address your child’s difficulties. You now address the difficulties from an angle, direction or perspective that you may not have considered before. This new “think outside the box” direction may be the difference between being a successful learner or a struggling learner.

Educational Games Worth Having

  The Comprehension Zone is a reading and listening comprehension game that helps you to identify the main idea, find the details, or sequence what you read. It is a ‘simple game’ that can have a profound effect on your learning life. I’m indebted to this game for helping my child in a way that I had failed to help him on my own and take from it what you will. My son now comprehends what he hears as well as what he reads.”  Kimberly O “The versatility of The Comprehension Zone makes it easy to play the game with children at multiple reading/listening levels at the same time. The game was interesting enough to the kids that they want  to play it often.”  Regina A   The Math Zone, another simple game makes calculation practice fun. The Math Zone is a math calculation card game that can be played 1st grade and up. It has multiple levels of play. Children also learn how numbers grow and shrink according to whether you add them, subtract them, multiply them, or divide them. “I played The Math Zone with my third grader, and she beat me a couple of times, because she kept drawing multiplication cards, and I kept getting subtraction!  I also noticed that she checked her work more thoroughly than she does with her math lessons! This would be a great game for keeping up skills during summer vacation or whenever you take a break from regular math lessons.”  Heather J “The Math Zone Game is a clever new way to drill arithmetic that goes beyond simply completing math problems or flipping flash cards.” Mary P Visit Bonnie Terry Learning for more educational games, guides, and books to make learning fun. Bonnie Terry, M. Ed., BCET is a Learning Disabilities Specialist. Ms. Terry helps parents identify, understand, & address the underlying causes of their child's learning problems. Bonnie has designed a variety of books, games, and guides to make learning reading, writing, spelling, English, and math easy even if you are Dyslexic, have a learning disability, or are ADHD. She also offers a coaching program, Awaken the Scholar Within, where she teaches you step-by-step how to help your child improve their skills yourself in just 20 minutes a day. Give Bonnie a call at 530-888-7160 to find out more about helping your child improve their skills or about educational games to improve learning skills.    

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Educational Games: Improve Learning Skills Quickly Part 1 htl

November 2nd, 2011

Educational Games:     Improve Learning Skills Quickly Part 1

  Playing educational games is one of the best ways to improve learning skills in quick fashion. This is because your mindset has changed from learning is hard to learning is fun.  

Things to Watch for in Purchasing Educational Games:

  1.       The educational games are teaching specific learning skills. 2.       The educational games you choose should be able to be played in a variety of ways 3.       You should be able to play the educational games at multiple levels so you will be able to play the game for  several years. All games don’t have to be fast games. You often learn more in a slower paced game because you it gives you time to think. Remember, when you play with language whether it is through word games,  sentence building games that also teach grammar, or reading comprehension games learning skills improve.

Educational Games Improve Learning Skills

Think about what happens to you when you play. Your body relaxes doesn’t it? And you have fun. Being in a relaxed state is the key. Learning is easier when you are in a relaxed state.  Again, one of the easiest ways I know to improve learning is through playing educational games.

Types of Educational Games

There are logic games, simulation games, computer educational games, board games, mind or brain games. There is no right or wrong in games. However, my choice of games is to play board games – games that you play around the table with your family or friends. These types of games have the added benefit of providing great family time at the same time as building educational skills. Additionally, when you play a game at a table with others you have the opportunity to have all kinds of examples before your turn which will help you when your turn comes around. You have an opportunity to learn strategy from each other too. Having examples or ‘modeling’ helps to improve learning skills too.  

How Do You Decide Which Educational Games Are the Best for Your Family?

  1.       Does the game teach or help your child with the specific skill they need practice with e.g. writing sentences, reading comprehension, math calculation practice? 2.       Does the game have research that supports it? 3.       Does the game have reviews from families that have played it so you know it’s worth a try? 4.       Can the game be played at multiple levels so you can play it more than one year?  

Educational Games Improve Learning Skills

  One of my favorite educational games that improves learning skills is The Sentence Zone. It is a game with color-coded words that you play to build sentences, improve grammar, write poetry, or even prepare for the SAT test. It can be played from 1st grade through adult levels. “There are so many ways you be creative with this game and learn while having fun. We keep thinking of more ways to play. Our family loves it.” Lori S “I know we’ll be playing The Sentence Zone often, as one of my daughters, my word-wise child is great at picking words but hasn’t much of a clue about parts of speech. After her little sister and I had played only a few rounds, Little Sister was advising on what piles to search through for words. Dragon, that’s a noun, look in the dark blue pile. Call is a verb…” Jean H Order your copy of The Sentence Zone game today. Stay tuned for Part 2 where I’ll have more educational games worth adding to your family arsenal of learning tools.   Bonnie Terry, M. Ed., BCET, The Nation's Learning Expert, from Bonnie Terry Learning is a learning disabilities specialist and board certified educational therapist. Ms. Terry helps parents identify, understand, & address the underlying causes of their child's learning problems. Bonnie has designed a variety of books, games, and guides to make learning reading, writing, spelling, English, and math easy even if you are Dyslexic, have a learning disability, or are ADHD. She also offers a coaching program, Awaken the Scholar Within, where she teaches you step-by-step how to help your child improve their skills yourself in just 20 minutes a day. Give Bonnie a call at 530-888-7160 to find out more about helping your child improve their skills or about educational games to improve learning skills.

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