How Kids Learn—Foundational Skills

Foundational skills are necessary for a student to learn to read or succeed at math. Skills like attention span, digit span, working memory, auditory discrimination, visual perception are all necessary before learning can be easy for a child. And these skills build upon each other. In this video Barb will explain which skills are most important, how they build on each other and how repetition can help build these skills. She will explain what goes wrong when these skills aren't well-developed in a young student. Find out why some students seem to do OK until 3rd, 4th, or 5th grade and then begin to struggle.