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  • Symbol Sudokus for children

    Symbol Sudokus for children

    Sudokus are everywhere: in almost every shop to buy, and on the internet as free printables or to play online. So why another post about Sudokus? Because it is not easy to find good Sudoku puzzles for children, and it is even less easy to find Sudokus with symbols. Worksheetworks.com, however, offers a free symbol Sudoku generator. Simply choose the symbols, how many Sudoku puzzles you want (one or four per page), choose the difficulty level, and click “create worksheet”. You get a PDF which you can save or print. Both a solution and an explanation of the solution are included.

    We like symbol sudokus very much. Young children can solve them as well and are very proud of being able to do the same kind of puzzles as adults. Older children like the extra challenge of drawing the symbols – this trains creativity and visual perception. What more can you wish?
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  • Animals and objects

    Animals and objects

    A cold, rainy day? Still 10 minutes to fill? Children with special educational needs? You simply cannot have enough worksheets. That’s why we offer you a file (24 pages) with animals and objects: searching, tracing, drawing, coloring, memory – all for free, of course! The exercises train attention, visual, and spatial perception.
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  • Open your ears!

    Open your ears!

    The American Dyslexia Association offers a different educational approach to help people with dyslexia and dyscalculia. This approach is called the AFS-Method, which is a multi-sensory method to help people who have difficulties with reading, writing and/or calculating. The “F” stands for “Function” which means the different sensory perceptions you need to learn reading, writing, and calculating. One important sensory perception is the acoustic area:

    • acoustic recognition: Can the child recognize different sounds?
    • acoustic memory: Can the child remember what he/she has heard?
    • acoustic sequencing: Can the child remember a sequence of sounds?

    We offer 12 sound sequences to train acoustic perception. Access them here. The audio clips have different degrees of difficulty. The child should recognize whether the sounds are the same or different, loud or soft, how many different sounds there are, and so on. According to the age and skills of your child, you can do the exercises with closed headphones. The headphones have the advantage that the child can completely focus on the sounds. The trainer or parent then also needs headphones and a dual adapter. If you do the exercises without headphones, then the child also hears the normal daily sounds around and learns how to filter out noise even better.
    We also made some worksheets to accompany these exercises, which you can download here: DOWNLOAD.
    Access the audio clips here.

  • Mazes

    Mazes

    Mazes have always fascinated humanity. Think about the Cretan Labyrinth from Greek mythology. But even today, mazes are very popular. In “The Goblet of Fire,” Harry Potter has to go through a maze to win the Triwizard Tournament. Once Harry finds the way through the maze, things turn out completely different from what was expected. But that is another story you’d better read yourself.
    Children are also fascinated by mazes. Therefore, mazes are perfect for training attention and perception. Here is a good way to do mazes with your children:

    • Give your children a maze.
    • First, the children should try to find the way ONLY using their eyes.
    • If that is too difficult, or if they found the way with their eyes, they should trace the way with their fingers.
    • If that works well, they should trace the way with a pen. They shouldn’t touch the walls of the maze.

    Important: Take care that the mazes are not too difficult, but also not too easy.
    We created some worksheets with mazes in varying levels of difficulty.

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  • Visual sequencing

    Visual sequencing

    Visual sequencing, perception, dyslexia, worksheets, parents, children

    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.

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  • Dino – Perception Training

    Dino – Perception Training

     

    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.

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  • Find the alien

    Find the alien

    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.

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  • Robots – drawing and mirroring

    Robots – drawing and mirroring

    Robots, dyslexia, dyscalculia, parents, worksheet, perception, visual perception, spatial perception, attention

    Today’s freebie offers you various robots and a spacecraft. Children have to draw these into the grid, mirror them or make them smaller or bigger. Children are counting, comparing up and down and left and right. This trains attention, eye-hand-coordination and visual and spatial perception – important skills for reading, writing and calculating.

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  • Tracing and pattern

    Tracing and pattern

    Today’s freebie contains tracing and pattern exercises. Children can either trace the shapes or they can trace the shapes and complete the pattern. Let them use different pens and colors. You can also laminate the exercises. Children can do the tracing with a dry-erase pen. This is a good alternative for children who have difficulties with tracing. Knowing that they can erase their tracing seems helpful for them. Tracing and pattern exercises train attention and visual and spatial perception – important skills for reading, writing, and calculating.

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