Children learn a lot during their early years not only at home but also at school. While there are different techniques used by different kinds of people to help them learn better, a new study has found that learning with actions helps them significantly identify individual letter sounds.

This is the conclusion of a new study conducted by the University of Copenhagen's Department of Nutrition, Exercise and Sports and Denmark's National Centre for Reading, in collaboration with 10 Copenhagen area school classes. It was published in the journal Educational Psychology Review. 

Reading is a complex and crucial skill that impacts the ability of youth to perform as students, across social contexts and in their eventual working lives. Therefore, it is important to develop reading skills during childhood. Children get twice as good with difficult letter sounds. Now, a team of researchers from the University of Copenhagen and Denmark's National Centre for Reading has focused on whether whole-body learning in instruction, known as embodied learning, has a positive impact on children's ability to learn letter sounds.