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Tip #2 for Supporting Learning at Home

ADDitude Magazine has some great advice for parents looking to support their children’s learning at home. Here is tip #2: If your child gets stressed, take a break. If your child appears to get overly anxious, fidgety or stressed during homework that they don’t “get,” just take a break. You can always return to the ...

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LearningRx Shreveport on KSLA News 12

Here’s Donesa Walker of LearningRx Shreveport talking about the Healthy Brain Cognitive Awareness Summit: https://www.ksla.com/2020/02/28/healthy-brain-cognitive-awareness-summit/

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Former Teacher-Turned-CEO Creates Video Series to Keep Kids’ Brains Active

Kim Hanson, a former elementary school teacher and mother of four, never anticipated the day when families with school-age children would lack the tools they need to keep their kids’ brains active in the midst of a national stay-at-home lockdown. “My heart goes out to the 55 million kids whose daily school lessons have shifted ...

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Tip #1 for Supporting Learning at Home

ADDitude Magazine has some great advice for parents looking to support their children’s learning at home. Here is tip #1: Focus on your child’s natural interests. Does your child love acting? Encourage them to act out a scene from a famous historical event. Does they love taking photos or videos? Have them to take photos that are ...

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Barnes & Noble Offering FREE Nook Book Collection

Looking for some free online reading resources for your children or teens? Check out Barnes & Noble’s Free Nook Book collection. You can sort by age and subject. To find your free books, go HERE.

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Young Kids Prefer Learning From Confident People

An interesting study from the University of British Columbia has found that not only do young kids (ages 4 and 5) prefer to learn from confident people, but they also “keep track of how well the teacher’s confidence has matched with their knowledge and accuracy in the past” in order to avoiding learning from people ...

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Games, Toys, Apps & Websites to Boost Brain Skills

If you’re looking for ways to help boost your child’s brain skills while schools are closed, check out our review site: www.learningrxreviews.com . This one-stop website offers reviews on a wide variety of games and toys (some of which you may already have at home!), as well as apps and websites that boost cognitive skills, ...

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Inventor Scavenger Hunt

Check out this fun Inventor Scavenger Hunt from Primary Playground!

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Brain Food: Caprese Beet Salad

Since we like to keep it fresh around here, we bring you Caprese Beet Salad. Beets are a good source of naturally-occurring nitrates, which help improve blood flow to the brain, and garlic may help stave off some forms of brain cancer, according to research. Not to mention that this colorful salad is sure to ...

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What Is S-RCD (Specific Reading Comprehension Deficits)?

            There’s a lot of research on dyslexia, which simply means “trouble with words.” But there’s not as much about S-RCD, or Specific Reading Comprehension Deficits. Where dyslexia is about reading the words, S-RCD is about understanding them. It’s like being able to read a foreign language – because you know how the words are ...

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