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TRAINING THE PHOTOGRAPHIC MEMORY Pamela Gates, Certified Learning Specialist, CNHP
Dianne Craft “Right Brain” Learning System
Teach your children to work “smarter”, not harder.
“Using Brain Research to Promote Success!”
“80% of struggling learners are Right Brain dominant, but they don’t know how to use their strong Photographic memory for learning,” Peter Russell, The Brain Book. “Boys use their photographic memory much less efficiently than girls. This could be part of the learning gap we frequently see between boys and girls,” Sally Shaywitz, MD, Indiana University study.
Use Right Brain Teaching Strategies to promote long-term storage.
Corpus Callosum
"Visual memory is considerably superior to auditory memory,” Peter Russell, The Brain Book.
Right Brain Spelling
Use spelling words as a TOOL to train your child’s valuable photographic memory.
These pictures stick, even when they are writing paragraphs!
This method trains the photographic memory exclusively because it does not use workbooks, or phonics rules. See 3 years growth in spelling using this inexpensive, fun teaching strategy while training their photographic memory! Even the worst spellers will get this method!
1. Give a Pre-Test 2. You (parent) make a card putting known letters in black marker. 3. Your child can “jazz-up” missed letter(s) on the card, using colors and pictures on just those letters. (After
you have MODELED this.) 4. Stand – hold words up high. 5. Child looks up at the word, and “takes a photo” of the word. (5 looks for 5 days) 6. Child looks up at blank wall – tells you the COLOR, PICTURE, and LETTERS. Then he spells the word
forwards and backwards. 7. Repeat this for all the words, for five days in a row. (5 looks for 5 days) 8. Test
Right Brain Vocabulary Instructions
Watch your children look forward to their vocabulary lessons when you teach them in cartoon form with picture and humor. The “old way” of writing definitions and then taking a test leads to short term retention of new vocabulary words. The “new way” yields long lasting results.
This process can later be streamlined, by teaching your children to “see” the word in their head, and “see” the meaning attached to it. Works great for college students too!
Strategies for Test Taking
Show your children how to take “picture notes” of a chapter or concept (geography, social studies, or science) for storage in the long- term memory and easier test recall.
Teach your children to picture an entire chapter of notes, using his/her natural photographic memory for easy test taking. This technique is used at Cambridge University!
Help your child “feel smart” by using teaching methods that require so little energy for them to remember material!
Dianne Craft has a Master’s Degree in Special Education and is a Certified Natural Health Professional. She has successfully
removed learning blocks in thousands of children for 30 years using her successful three-pronged approach, 1) Brain Integration Therapy; 2) Right Brain teaching strategies, and 3) Nutritional strategies (Biology of Behavior).
Pamela Gates, Certified Natural Health Professional and Certified Learning Specialist in the ™Dianne Craft “Right Brain”
Learning System has 17 years’ experience working with Dianne Craft’s proven three-pronged approach to correcting learning glitches and making learning easier for bright, hardworking learners. Using this approach, Dianne and Pamela have helped many children with symptoms of dyslexia, dysgraphia, auditory processing problems and ADD. If you’re interested in hands-on guidance as you use this program with your bright, hardworking learner who has to work too hard to learn, visit www.diannecraft.org for information about telephone consultations with Dianne Craft for a Personal Learning Plan OR in-person consultations and tutoring in Denver, CO with our speaker, Pamela. Questions about your child? We love to answer parents’ questions. Feel free to email us at [email protected]
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Teacher. Dyslexia doesn’t have to be permanent and it doesn’t have to be expensive to correct at home.
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