How Does PIM Enable Teachers To Successfully Reach ALL Students? Mark loves to build things. Lainey loves to act things out. Cameron loves to draw. Marquis is a dancer and loves to move! When planning, we need to focus equally on what students learn, and how they learn. Students have different learning styles to acquire […]
Read moreExpanding the Safety Net: How PIM Fosters a Love of Learning
“If we succeed in giving the love of learning, the learning itself is sure to follow.” – John Lubbock Learning Environment Students learn best when they feel safe and secure to explore their environment in a way that makes sense to them. This can be difficult for some students who may feel that […]
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“To Infinity and Beyond!” -Buzz Lightyear Beyond Sound Walls Ok, infinity might be an over-exaggeration, but with Phonics in Motion, children can definitely move beyond sound walls and learn strategies that make them literacy experts. There has been a shift in teaching from using word walls to sound walls. Whereas word […]
Read morePIM Removes the Risk – How Phonics in Motion Provides a Safe Learning Environment for All Students
“Every child has a different learning style and pace. Each child is unique, not only capable of learning, but capable of succeeding.” – Robert John Meehan Reaching All Learners We are a diverse society with an equally diverse learning population. Students arrive at school with varying degrees of knowledge and capabilities. As […]
Read morePhonics in Motion: Turn Fidgeting into FUNction!
“But Fidgety Phil, he won’t sit still; He wriggles and giggles and then, I declare, swings backwards and forwards and tilts up his chair.” -Heinrich Hoffman, German Author Kinesthetic Motions for the Phoneme Close your eyes. Picture a classroom filled with twenty first graders. What does it look like? Do you see twenty little […]
Read moreFun with Phonics – How is PIM different?
Learning With Phonics in Motion Phonics in Motion is a unique learning program that incorporates kinesthetic in addition to auditory and visual sensory information. Children do not have a one size fits all learning style, therefore educational experiences tailored to a child’s learning styles will have a beneficial result in their ability to acquire, […]
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