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Does your youngster read at a proficient reading level? National data paint a bleak picture. Based on 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 were studying at an amount below effectiveness in 2003. At least 63 per cent of eighth-graders in 3-2 other states read at a level below skill. To assist teachers and parents in helping kiddies be proficient in reading, SFK Media Specially For Kids Corp. Offers an innovative learning system called ReadEnt. It blends reading with enjoyable films to show and enhance knowledge and vocabulary. These Reading Movies make use of a patented technology named Action Captions, which show each spoken word on-screen, in real-time, as a character speaks. Based on SFK Media, this kind of captioning works well in increasing the rate of awareness and vocabulary develop-ment. What become ingrained within the kids minds and, consequently, both studying and spoken language skills develop naturally. [Students] watching these Reading Movies, though they think they are only watching a movie that is engaging,... are knowing words. Theyre reading whether they realize that they are or not, explained Chelsee Atkins, an instructor and reading specialist in Florida. For further information, we recommend you check out: account. If they sit back and watch a couple of these shows each week, they are paying 10 hours a week reading. ReadEnts Reading Movies are available as interactive 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 may be found in a variety of different teaching configurations: like a shared knowledge on a single television monitor; being a guided exercise, where several students interact on their particular computers; and like a one-to-one guide, in-which the teacher or parent assesses the childs knowledge and language recognition. Learning is playing in its most useful sense, and entertainment must be learning, explained Joy Esterberg, a language skills consultant at Baruch College in New York. This system is an excellent relationship between learning and entertainment..