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Embodied Learning: A moving way to learn your ABCs
September 27, 2022
Reading should not be presented to children as a chore or a duty. It should be offered as a gift.
-Kate DiCamillo, author
-Kate DiCamillo, author
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In the whole body movement group, "Kids moved like a snake as they hissed the sibilant sss sound or quickly snapped their body into the shape of a Y and paired the movement with the yuh sound. The other classes made hand gestures while sounding out words—or sounded out letters without any movement while reading along at their desks." Children with more advanced motor skills did no better or worse than other children but motor movements did aid learning and retention. After 90 minutes of instruction per week across 8 weeks, children in both the movement group and gesture group outperformed the desk learners, and the movement group had 30% better recall of letter-sound pairings than the hand gesture group. The new skills were sustained when retested with no further intervention up to 22 weeks later. Researchers noted children in the movement group were more likely to use movement when asked to recall sound-letter pairs after the intervention had ended. What ways do you use movement to reinforce learning? Share in the comments. |
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