ABSTRACT
Embodied learning in the conscious spectrum is often overlooked or misapplied in academic content areas. Oral language, including speaking and listening, are biologically primary abilities. Reading written language is regarded as a biologically secondary skill because it draws upon those primary abilities and is of cultural relevance, rather than necessary for survival. Children can then build up their literacy skills by automating these associations and then using them when reading high quality materials. Reading comprehension necessarily includes the construction of an elaborated account of the actions and interrelations that the words in the text describe. The situation model is a powerful form of mental simulation. Students may not get the equations correct at first, but they naturally imagine the correct situation model. Students are aware when the animation does not match their imagined situation model.
