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Special Movies Can Increase Pupils' Reading Proficiency

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Summary: According to the National Center for Educational Statistics, 90 percent of eighth-graders in Washington, D.C., 81 percent in New Mexico, 80 percent in Mississippi and Nevada, 78 percent in Louisiana, California and Hawaii, 74 percent in Texas, and 73 percent in Florida had been reading at a level below proficiency in 2003. At least 63 percent of eighth-graders in 32 other states read at a level below proficiency.

Key phrases: Distinctive Movies Can Increase Pupils' Reading Proficiency

Post Body: Does your child read at a proficient reading level? National statistics paint a bleak picture.

According to the National Center for Educational Statistics, 90 percent of eighth-graders in Washington, D.C., 81 percent in New Mexico, 80 percent in Mississippi and Nevada, 78 percent in Louisiana, California and Hawaii, 74 percent in Texas, and 73 percent in Florida had been reading at a level below proficiency in 2003. At least 63 percent of eighth-graders in 32 other states read at a level below proficiency.

To assist educators and parents in helping youngsters turn into far more proficient in reading, SFK Media Specially For Youngsters Corp. supplies an innovative understanding program referred to as ReadEnt. It blends reading with entertaining movies to teach and increase vocabulary and comprehension. These Reading Movies use a patented technologies known as "Action Captions," which show each spoken word on-screen, in actual-time, as a character speaks.

According to SFK Media, this sort of captioning is powerful in enhancing the rate of vocabulary development and comprehension. The words grow to be ingrained in the youngsters's minds and, for that reason, both reading and spoken language abilities develop naturally.

"[Students] watching these Reading Movies, even although they feel they are just watching a movie that is entertaining, ... are comprehending words. They are reading no matter whether they recognize that they are or not," said Chelsee Atkins, an educator and reading specialist in Florida. "If they sit down and watch a couple of these movies each week, they are spending 10 hours a week reading."

ReadEnt's Reading Movies are offered as interactive DVD programs for use on the Television or laptop or computer and incorporate such classic titles as "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea," "Tales of Gulliver's Travels" and "The Trojan Horse." They can be utilised in a selection of diverse teaching configurations: as a shared expertise on a single Tv monitor; as a guided activity, where a group of students interact on their own computers; and as a 1-to-1 tutorial, in which the teacher or parent assesses the child's comprehension and vocabulary recognition.

"Studying is playing in its finest sense, and entertainment really should be understanding," said Joy Esterberg, a language abilities specialist at Baruch College in New York. "This program is a fantastic marriage between understanding and entertainment."