Let's Look Together

Prep: 5-10 Minutes / Activity Time: 5-10 Minutes

Black and white high-contrast images help to stimulate babies’ visual and brain development. Here is an activity that introduces basic shapes and images to help set the stage for letter learning.

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Splish Splash Baby

Prep: 3-5 Minutes / Activity Time: 5-10 Minutes

As your baby hears new words and explores new materials, creative water play will stimulate her language and cognitive development, important parts of pre-reading development.

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Touch and Feel Sensory Board

Prep: 10-15 Minutes / Activity Time: 10-15 Minutes

Rich sensory experiences (like feeling different textures) help introduce fine motor hand movements, which can strengthen beginning reading and writing skills as your baby grows.

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Easy Listening

Prep: 15 Minutes / Activity Time: 5 Minutes

Learning to focus on sounds helps pave the way for later accomplishments in phonological awareness, and that’s important for future reading and spelling skills.

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Barnyard Friends

Prep: None / Activity Time: 5 Minutes

Although your baby is brand new to the world, he needs to listen to sounds in order to learn how to produce the sounds of our language and say his first word!

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Word Awareness

Prep: 5 Minutes / Activity Time: 10 Minutes

From the moment she is born, you can nurture your baby’s oral language growth by providing many opportunities for her to hear new words every day.

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Read and Touch

Prep: None / Activity Time: 3-5 Minutes

It’s never too early to begin reading with your baby. When you read together, you help your baby to learn and to love books!

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Ribbon Grasp

Prep: None / Activity Time: 3-5 Minutes

Here‘s an activity you can do to help your baby learn to grasp objects with her hands – it’s a skill she’ll need to hold pencils and crayons later.

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My Tiny Hand

Prep: None / Activity Time: 3-5 Minutes

This activity combines family tradition and culture with brief communication interactions that are invaluable for developing the foundations of language and literacy.

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My Name is Special

Prep: 10 Minutes / Activity Time: 3-5 Minutes

One of the first words your baby will understand is her name. Help your baby make important sound connections by providing opportunities for her to hear and see her name.

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