Child-1st.com creates multisensory reading and math materials
Child1st Publications, LLC
Child1st designs and publishes teaching tools that engage both sides of a child's brain, providing learning success for many who struggle in traditional classrooms or with traditional teaching approaches. What makes the materials truly unique is that they integrate explicit phonics instruction with specific strategies in order to engage children with an array of learning strengths.
These multisensory teaching tools use visuals, patterns, body motions, stories, and rhymes to engage right-brained learners (including visual and kinesthetic/tactile learners) and create successful learning without the need for memorization or drill. All the teaching/learning materials are designed to utilize several channels to the brain simultaneously and take the work out of learning. Child1st products continue to receive rave reviews from classroom teachers, homeschooling parents and those working with their children at home after school. Child1st materials have proved to be a great resource for autistic, dyslexic and other non-traditional learners.
Child1st Products
SnapWords™
As an example, the teaching card on the right has an embedded image which shows a laugh. The back of the card includes the word laugh in plain text as well as a recommended motion: "Clap your hand to your forehead and tilt head back as though laughing." The sentence provided is: "LAUGH. They LAUGH at the baby with food on his head!" These stylized sight words create alternative pathways to the brain for those who struggle with memorizing symbols, making them critically important for those who do not naturally use left brained strategies when learning to read.
"I received my order of Sight Words Teaching Cards on Thursday so I've had only two days to try it out. I ordered the words to use with a boy who was having great difficulty learning even the first Dolch list. Results almost unbelievable! He has already mastered the first set, even to the point of recognizing 95% of the plain words. Thanks for a clever, effective product."
Michael C, ESL Teacher
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SnapLetters™ Alphabet Products
Child1st SnapLetters™ Cards
"Hi Sarah I just wanted to say what a marvelous service you are offering. I use the Sight Words and Alphabet here in Japan. The Japanese kids as well as parents really enjoy them. I will be adding more cards to my teaching tools in the near future. Thanks again for your help; your service is the most efficient I ever came across."
Peter in Shizuoka-Japan
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Easy-for-Me™ Reading Program
The Easy-for-Me™ Reading Program closes the gaps in understanding for students with a variety of learning strengths who would otherwise be left behind. Easy-for-Me™ is a systematic, sequential approach to phonics instruction that also specifically engages the modalities in the learning process. Teachers or parents need only follow the sequence in each multisensory lesson in order to be sure that the needs of their non-traditional learners are met. The Easy-for-Me™ Reading Program takes the guesswork out of the task of teaching non-traditional learners.
"Learning Matters takes pride in using the best materials available on the market in our learning center. I stumbled upon the Easy-for-Me™ curriculum and materials when searching for a figural reading program for our preschool/kindergarten ages 3-6. Easy-for-Me™ curriculum and materials are different from traditional reading programs on the market. Sarah Major has engaged all the senses and tied the learning together to make it meaningful, and to maximize a child’s ability to remember what are often just abstract symbols and words. This program is well organized, comprehensive, visually pleasing, easy to use, founded in current research, and most importantly, effective."
Kandy Dicken
Co-founder and director of Learning Matters in Hillsboro, Oregon
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This curriculum is designed primarily for kindergartners who are just beginning to learn to read and for remediation in reading for older students. Its components include a Teaching Manual, Alphabet Tales, SnapLetters™ Teaching Cards, SnapLetters™ Classroom Display, SnapWords™ Teaching Cards, and Easy-for-Me™ Decodable Books which come on two difficulty levels. The Teaching Manual lists activities for taking the teaching topic across the curriculum.
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Right-Brained Math
Auditory Aids
WhisperPhones® are an acoustical voice-feedback headset and enhance auditory learning. WhisperPhones® enable learners of all ages to focus as they read, and to hear the sounds that make up words more clearly. Great for children who have difficulty distinguishing between similar sounds in words, or for children who have to hear themselves reading in order to comprehend.
About the CEO
Sarah Major created the Child1st website out of her desire to share some of the teaching tools she found to be very effective with children who struggle in traditional classrooms or with traditional teaching methods. In the fall of 2006, Sarah resigned from full-time teaching in order to devote herself to Child1st full time. The research undertaken for this body of work was done first of all with real children, and then in a scholarly way by reading the work of researchers. Research with real kids allowed Sarah to test every new approach and teaching material in order to determine its usefulness in promoting learning. Any approaches or materials that didn't produce a desired learning experience, that were confusing, or that were irrelevant to the real learning were discarded, and only what was effective in reaching all learners was kept and enhanced.
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