Public Talk Day 3

May 18 (16.00-18.30)

WRITING, READING, BRAIN DEVELOPMENT

Are the children ready to learn? Are we unconsciously pushing them? The danger of early learning!

We have to wait with writing, reading, and spelling until this brain developed. From age 3 to 6 the children only have the right hemisphere of the brain working. Around 7 of age then the left hemisphere comes toward. So what does it mean that with the right hemisphere they can memorize short pictures. They can memorize very easily words with 3, 4 maybe 5 letters but not more. Then the left brain comes to this, allows the children to see letters as single letters and connected with the sound of it. Before this, they do not understand in spelling. And they have the word and they begin to put letter to letter. That would be think as a reading.

So the right hemisphere is more in pictures and the left hemisphere means the sound. When we look at the younger children they have only sight memory. Then when the left hemisphere comes, children can read maybe very nicely but when they asked to tell what they are reading, the content, they just say the words they are reading not the content. They do not understand in the sense of what is really on the text. Then coming up the bridge between both hemispheres. They develop the nerve system between both hemisphere which make children understand the letter and also the sound.