agree with all the others.
Perhaps your child is kinestetic in his learning style? The more involved his body and muscles are in learning, the better he learns. My son is this way. He will pace when "memorizing" and will have total recall of what he memorized.
Of course, being this way does NOT fit well with traditional classroom set-ups!!
We also do the headphone routine. And agree, classical music is great - NL discovered he also like Celtic music, so we use a lot of that, too. Also agree - no lyrics, it must be strictly instrumental.
