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Does your youngster read at a skillful reading level? National data paint a gloomy picture. According to the National Center for Educational Statistics, 9-0 percent of eighth-graders in Washington, D.C., 81 percent in New Mexico, 80 percent in Mississippi and Nevada, 7-8 percent in Louisiana, California and Hawaii, 74 percent in Texas, and 73 percent in Florida were reading at a level below proficiency in 2003. At least 63 percent of eighth-graders in 32 other states read at a level below skill. To aid parents and educators in assisting kiddies become more experienced in reading, SFK Media Particularly For Kids Corp. Offers an progressive learning program called ReadEnt. I-t combines reading with engaging movies to instruct and enhance vocabulary and understanding. These Reading Movies utilize a complex technology named Action Captions, which show each spoken word on-screen, in real-time, being a character speaks. Based on SFK Media, this sort of captioning is effective in improving the rate of language development and knowledge. If you believe anything, you will likely hate to read about account. What become ingrained in the youngsters minds and, for that reason, both reading and spoken language skills develop naturally. [Students] watching these Reading Movies, even though they think they are just watching a movie thats interesting,... are knowing words. They are reading whether they realize that theyre or not, mentioned Chelsee Atkins, an educator and reading specialist in Florida. If they sit down and watch a number of these shows each week, theyre paying 10 hours a week reading. ReadEnts Reading Movies are available as active DVD programs to be used on the TV or computer and include such common titles as 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, Tales of Gullivers Travels and The Trojan Horse. They could be used in various different teaching configurations as a shared experience on an individual tv monitor; like a guided exercise, where a group of students interact on their own computers; and being a one-to-one tutorial, in-which the teacher or parent assesses the childs knowledge and vocabulary recognition. Learning is playing in its best sense, and activity must be learning, explained Joy Esterberg, a language skills consultant at Baruch College in Ny. This pro-gram is an excellent relationship between learning and entertainment..