{"id":3760,"date":"2024-04-02T11:18:47","date_gmt":"2024-04-02T09:18:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.capulumcollege.com\/dev2026\/?p=3760"},"modified":"2024-04-02T17:47:10","modified_gmt":"2024-04-02T15:47:10","slug":"literacy-is-not-easy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.capulumcollege.com\/dev2026\/literacy-is-not-easy\/","title":{"rendered":"Literacy isn\u2019t easy\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Literacy isn\u2019t easy. Break it down and you\u2019ll understand the reason. Children need to make sense of shapes and turn them into sounds and words. These words need to be remembered correctly in their written and spoken form – and their meaning needs to be understood.<\/p>\n

Taking this a step further, we must keep in mind that education provides the base for a healthy, steady, growth-orientated society \u2013 and literacy is its foundation.<\/p>\n

\"\"According to experts in this field, limited movement impairs children’s ability to learn. In today\u2019s world babies spend extended hours in car seats and pushchairs instead of sliding, crawling, toddling and falling. The \u2018couch potato\u2019 syndrome<\/a>\u201d often follows…<\/p>\n

Babies walk and talk in their own time, and it is said that allowing reading to develop naturally or teaching it when the child is ready tends to create eager, lifelong readers. Expecting children to read, write and spell from five and six years old is unnecessary – and it may be contributing to problems such as learning disorders, attention deficits, as well as long-term stress.<\/p>\n

\"\"For children to read, write and spell they must be developmentally ready. Some are ready at the age of four or five years old, some not for many years later. This readiness includes:<\/p>\n