Do Masks Impact Speech and Language Development?
Should we be concerned that masks might impact the development of speech and language in our young children? Or the perception of emotions in others? Luckily, there is so much communicative information children perceive beyond reading lips and other visual cues lost behind masks.
Reader’s Theater and the Struggling Reader
After learning to decode and read somewhat fluently, there were still times where all of that hard work seemed to just go out the window. Some students were experiencing difficulties with attention, others were experiencing boredom and burnout. Regardless of the reason, discovering Reader’s Theater seemed to be the answer I had long been searching for.