Here, we offer a fun freebie: I can count!
Many children with dyscalculia have trouble with exact counting. This booklet will help them. The children will count the dots on the ladybug and write the amount. The file is presented as a mini notebook, but you can also cut out and laminate the cards. It might be a good idea to give these booklets as homework.
The ladybug pictures are from edupic.net
Einstein is said to have claimed that only 2 percent of the world can solve this puzzle. There is no evidence he wrote it, and no evidence for the 2 percent either. We will make the opposite claim: anyone who reads carefully and combines patiently can solve it. Children can too, with a little help depending on age and reading experience.
We rewrote the classic riddle in a version for children. No smoking and no alcohol, sweets and soft drinks instead. The question stays the same: who owns the fish?
Download the riddle as a free PDF
It is a logic grid puzzle, sometimes called a zebra puzzle. You are given five houses in a row, each with a different color, a different owner, a different drink, a different sweet, and a different pet. A list of clues tells you how these things relate to one another. Nothing is guessed. Every single answer can be derived from the clues, and there is exactly one solution.
The trick is not cleverness. It is a system. Anyone who works through it in order will get there.
Because of what it asks for. Reading a clue exactly as it is written, holding several conditions in mind at once, working in an ordered sequence, and staying with a task long enough to finish it are the same skills that carry reading and arithmetic. A puzzle trains them without any of it looking like schoolwork, and a child who has spent the school day being corrected gets to be the one who is right.
Read the clues aloud together if the reading itself is the hard part. The point of the exercise is the combining, not the decoding, and there is no reason a child should fail at the first step for the wrong reason.
If this went down well, there is plenty more. Our free printable worksheets cover attention and perception training, and the spot the difference puzzles work on the same careful looking in a lighter format. The American Dyslexia Association also publishes more than 1,500 free worksheets for dyslexia and dyscalculia.
Have fun combining.
Today’s freebie is monster reading puzzles. First, the children cut out the pictures. Then, they read the instructions and place the images in the correct place. This trains attention, visual and spatial perception, and accurate reading. Cutting and gluing the pictures is good for fine motor skills. An alternative is to read the instructions to the children. This trains careful listening.
We like these reading puzzles a lot, because children practice different perceptions and accurate reading or listening. Also, the children have great fun and are happy when all the pictures are in the correct place.
Visual sequencing is the ability to organize visual impressions in a certain order. This is an important prerequisite for good writing, reading and arithmetic. Children who have difficulties with visual sequencing often exchange letters while writing or have difficulties with writing down numbers. Today we are offering a freebie containing various exercises to train visual sequencing.
Today’s freebie offers you lots and lots of worksheets to practice letters. Print out the worksheets, and if you feel like it, cut out the cards and laminate them. Children can practice all upper-case and lower-case letters. They have to recognize which letters are correct. Sometimes the letters are mirrored or standing upside down. These exercises will help your child to better recognize single letters, which helps them become a better reader.
It’s been a while, but today we offer a new freebie: Spirals – Tracing and recognizing. The first two pages are for warming up: Trace the spirals, use different colors, and draw your own spirals. On the 3rd page, you have to recognize the different spirals and trace them in the given color. These exercises train attention, hand-eye coordination, and visual and spatial perception. While the children are tracing the spirals, you can also check how they are holding the pen. For younger children: Let them trace the spirals with their fingers first, so they get a feeling for the form.
Krokotak offers all kinds of ideas for parents and children to be creative: printables, recipes, drawing, experiments and many more ideas. How about making some windmills, rain mandalas, a car made from an egg carton, or monster cards? Go visit krokotak and be inspired!
Dino – Perception Training – is today’s freebie:
Arrange dinos from small to big, find the dino that is exactly the same, and find pieces from a picture. These exercises train visual and spatial perception and attention – important skills for reading, writing, and calculating.
Today’s freebie contains 3 worksheets. Children have to find a given shape. They can color or circle the shape. These exercises train attention and visual perception – important skills for good reading, writing, and calculating.
