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PHDid you know your child’s ability to cross the midline can make or break their reading success? 📖✨
The midline is an invisible line down the centre of the body.
Crossing it means moving the eyes, hands, or feet across to the other side, like when your child’s eyes scan smoothly from left to right across a page.
Here’s why it matters for reading:
✔ Builds smooth eye tracking so they don’t skip or lose words
✔ Strengthens both sides of the brain to work together, key for comprehension
✔ Supports hand–eye coordination for neat handwriting
✔ Makes reading feel natural and fluent, instead of clunky and tiring
If a child struggles to cross the midline, reading can feel slow, frustrating, and disconnected. The great news? Fun, simple activities can build this skill, like drawing big sideways figure 8s, touching opposite elbow to knee, or playing catch across the body.
If you’re also interested in learning the exact system to teach your child to read from start to finish, drop “20” below ⬇️ and I’ll send you my FREE 20-minute reading training.
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