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Beyond Root Words: Morphology and the Connection to Reading Skills This section is about morphology and why morphological skills are a crucial aspect of paragraph comprehension—and of reading more generally. It looks at how students learn morphological skills, and explores what research tells us about the most effective way to train students in morphologically complex words and affixes. Find out more... See more articles on Reading and the Brain and Reading Issues in the Classroom... Assessment Multiple Intelligences in the Classroom Learn more about Gardner's theory of multiple intelligences as it applies to education. This article explores an important part of implementing Gardner's theory in the classroom: assessing students' "intelligences profiles." Find out more... See more Assessment Topics... Memory Training Shown to Turn Up Brainpower A new study has found that it may be possible to train people to be more intelligent, increasing the brainpower they had at birth.   Find out more... See more articles on The Developing Brain...

Test your knowledge of speech sounds! The alphabetic principle, that each letter represents a sound, is a fundamental component of reading. Learn more about how spoken sounds relate to reading, and sharpen your language skills with Bear Wear! Try it now... Peripheral Night-Vision At night, our peripheral vision is better than our foveal (straight on) vision. Hikers at night do better when they look slightly above the trail, and airplane pilots are taught to look for traffic out of the sides of their eyes. This is because our rod cells, photoreceptors that respond best to dim light, are located mostly in the periphery of the retina. See more Brain Facts... Brain Connection Games are fun to play while also testing reading and language skills.

 

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