Four Skills for Reading and Learning Success

The Four Essential Skills for Learning and Reading

Neuroscience and educational research have clearly identified the key skills that we need for effective learning. Have a look and see if you feel that any of these critical areas could be improved in yourself, your students or your own children

The four importance cognitive processes are Memory, Attention, Processing and Sequencing. We call these skills Learning MAPs Memory, Attention, Processing and Sequencing and use them to improve the essential cognitive processes that a student needs for reading and learning.

Improved Memory
Most students can improve their working memory. This provides them the capacity to retain information for a short time, while actively processing or working with it. Users report improved working memory, moving their abilities into the higher range, and show significant improvements compared to before.

Attention
Focused and sustained attention provide the ability to concentrate on a task without being distracted. Many techniques are available to help show major improvements in attention and focus.
 
Processing Skills
Auditory processing skills, including the ability to discriminate the fast changes that distinguish many phonemes, provide the foundation for acquiring strong verbal language skills and for learning to read. For example students after using a systematic program in recent research can move well into the average auditory processing range in both quiet and noisy conditions.
 
SEQUENCING This is a cognitive skill that relies on memory, attention and processing and is essential for phonics, word fluency, reading and oral comprehension. Sequencing places information in a logical order which in turn allows for improved memory attention and processing.
 
These four skills help people to have several strong outcomes including, phonological memory, improved sentence memory and word discrimination as well as higher attention levels in class and at home, greater ability to remember and carry out instructions and better auditory processing.

The mastery of these attributes clearly enables better reading and therefore easier learning. Students feel a corresponding improvement in self confidence and sense of esteem.