The KONOS method of teaching is intended and designed to reach all learning styles.
It relates to both left and right-brain dominant learners because it is constantly
balancing both right and left-brain activities.
Many children who have been diagnosed ADD or labeled "struggling learner" are simply right-brain dominant.
There is enough research and experience available now that tells us these children are bright and curious,
but often do not succeed with our traditional left-brain dominant teaching methods. This left-brain oriented
system insists they learn in a prescribed fashion – starting at a certain age, doing workbooks, reading through
textbooks, and sitting still while listening to a teacher in the distance. Most right-brain dominant learners
are highly visual and learn best through methods that take advantage of their particular learning abilities.
The method of teaching that employs hands-on learning experiences, humor, personal relevance, demonstrations,
dramatizations, and lots of fun and laughter will make an enormous difference in their education and in their lives.
The following resources and books support the KONOS method of learning and teaching.
The Way They Learn – How to Discover and Teach to Your Child’s Strength
By Cynthia Tobias – founder and president of Learning Styles Unlimited, Inc
In this enlightening resource, Cynthia Tobias introduces the variety of learning styles that shape the way students interpret their world. Once these approaches are understood, parents and teachers can help children maximize their children’s learning strengths, and their own for that matter.
Talkers, Watchers, & Doers - Unlocking Your Child's Learning Style
By Cheri Fuller - educator
This book will help you discover your child’s learning and intelligence strengths, suggest how to capitalize on those strengths, and understand how your own style affects your approach to your child’s learning.
Smart Moves – Why Learning Is Not All In Your Head
By Dr. Carla Hannaford – neurophysiologist and educator
Dr. Hannaford presents the body’s role in thinking and learning – simply - movement is essential to learning. The author tells us why we must move, and shows us how to move to fully activate our learning potential; Brain-Gym exercises are included and modeled. Her very readable book contains remarkable insights and will be of great and immediate value to learners of all ages, from the gifted to the so-called learning-disabled.
Right Brained Children in a Left Brained World – Unlocking the Potential of Your ADD Child
By Jeffery Freed - educational therapist and consultant - and Laurie Parsons
Now here is a life-changing book for both parents and their children. Don’t let the title fool you – all children who are ADD are right-brained. However, not all right-brained children are ADD, even though they share a particular learning style. The majority of children who are labeled “struggling learners” are children who are right-brain dominant; they simply do not receive, process, store or retrieve information in the manner that most school work is presented. Jeffery Freed’s book is incredibly enlightening and could change your child’s life, and the way you perceive him/her.
Endangered Minds – Why children Can’t Think and What We Can Do About It
By Jane Healy – educational psychologist and educator
First published in 1990, "Endangered Minds" argues that children today aren't as able to concentrate, analyze and think as clearly as children in the past because of faced-paced lifestyles and electronic media. Dr Healy sounds a warning we need to heed, but also offers priorities and strategies that are compatible with the very nature of childhood – strategies that are common-sense once we are aware of them.
Start Smart - Building Brain Power in the Early Years
By Pam Schiller – early childhood educator and specialist
This is a fun book! It features lots of information in straightforward chapters which describe how and why the brain develops in the toddler/preschool years. This book explains the many ordinary things we can do to provide an “enriched” and stimulating environment for our children - simply by being aware of how they develop and learn, and by taking advantage of everyday experiences.
Ready Bodies, Learning Minds
By Athena Oden – pediatric physical therapist
Do you know a child who doesn't like learning? Is a bouncer? Is a shirt chewer? Sits like a noodle? Has difficulty writing? What is it about these children that make them different? Can't they control themselves? Do they need discipline, more responsibility, or a chair with a seatbelt? Help!! Athena Oden, helps you understand a child's development and what it means to learning.
U nderstanding and Helping the Struggling Learner – video set
by Dianne Craft, MA, CNHP
This two tape set includes a wealth of information on how to teach a right brain child (specifics for spelling, phonics and math), attention, learning and behavior problems, along with a demonstration of brain integration exercises. This is a fabulous resource that will help you as the teacher and parent to understand the right-brain child’s learning style, strengths and needs.
Brain Integration Therapy Manual
by Dianne Craft, MA, CNHP
This easy-to follow manual contains exercises to help your child utilize both sides of his/her brain and “cross the midline”. These exercises will significantly improve your child’s reading, handwriting and ability to process verbal information. 48 pages
Right Brain Phonics Set – Reading book and phonics cards
by Dianne Craft MA, CNHP
Teach the phonics sounds so they stick! Use right brain learning strategies – color, picture, humor, and superimpose the letter or blend on the picture. When the sound and the name of the letter are together we have combined right and left brain processing enabling our right-brain learner to read. 149 pages plus cards
 
Sight Words
by Dianne Craft and Breanna Gates
Put sight words into long term storage in a fun way! Stop guessing at the same word four times on the same page. Help reading become more fluent. Kids can spell them as well as read them. These sight word cards are in color with a “story” on the back describing the picture. Having the word superimposed on the picture causes the words to be put in photographic memory for easy retrieval. 32 cards
Spelling Memory Kit
by Arthur Bornstein
Finally, a fun right-brain friendly approach to those tricky spelling words. This set of 56 cards makes use of picture, humor, color, and association to make the correct spelling stick in the brain like Velcro! Fun and easy to use! 56 cards plus an audio tape
Multiplication Memorizer Set
by Arthur Bornstein
Stop struggling with the multiplication facts. Right brain kids do not succeed with rote memorization; they learn best with picture, association, color, and humor. This set of multiplication cards employs these elements to take the pain out of learning the multiplication facts. Many parents report that their child learned the facts in a week using these cards. Struggling with math facts impedes progress in math at all levels – even older students can benefit by finally having a way to pull the facts out of their memory quickly and effortlessly. On the back of the card is a story and questions to reinforce association and the mental image.
This package contains forty 7 x 11 cards with teacher and student cassette tapes.
Addition and Subtraction Memorization Kit
By Arthur Bornstein
Eliminate guessing and finger counting. Learn the math facts the right-brain way – with color, association, story, and humor. The right brain stores information in pictures and needs to see the whole picture, so these cards have the answers in the picture instead of on the back of the card. Lower and upper level addition and subtraction facts will never be a struggle again
Vocabulary Cartoons
By Sam and Bryan Burchers
These cartoon-filled books use the power of mnemonics to learn vocabulary in a way that is far more successful than the average method. The humorous picture links an auditory (rhyming) word association to the meaning of the word – the more bizarre and outrageous, the easier it is to learn and remember. These are great!
Vocabulary Cartoons
Humorous cartoons and rhymes make learning fun, while mnemonics increase retention.
3rd-6th Grade - $15.95
SAT Vocabulary Cartoons
Grade 7-12
Students learn hundreds of SAT level words faster and easier with powerful rhyming and visual mnemonics.
SAT II Vocabulary Cartoons
Grade 7-12
More Vocabulary Cartoons!
The Unofficial SAT Word Dictionary
Grade 7-12
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