The best way to fine tune your child’s reading skills is to find time to practice every day. And most kids learn better when they’re doing something they want to do, not because they have to. These kid-approved activities and games are fun and help build reading skills. They’re simple enough to make part of your routine: during playtime, at meals and snacks, or when you’re out and about.
These kid-approved activities and games are fun and help build reading skills. They’re simple enough to make part of your routine: during playtime, at meals and snacks, or when you’re out and about.
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Animal sound games are a good way to expose your baby to new sounds! Plus, she will have so much fun trying to find where that sound is coming from.
Children in this age are most famous for being little explorers! Fulfill their need for exploration by showing them a part of your home that they normally do not see on an everyday basis.
Use common objects from around your house to play this simple rhyme game. Children benefit from fun and engaging rhyming activities to help them master this important pre-reading skill.
Young kids love to make things disappear. Let your child find and then erase the letters you name as you chant: I see the letter ___ today. Can you make it go away?
Your child is probably starting to identify and read some signs and frequently viewed words. Capture some of these words with your camera and use the photos to create a book that he can read all by himself!
This fun game will help your child look and find the letters that have a peek-a-boo hole to look through or put her little fingers in.
Let your toddler experiment with sorting by color with this simple pom-pom activity.
Here is a fun game to play that will help expose your child to the letter shapes, learn the letter names and hear the letter sounds.
As your newborn grows, he becomes more aware of his environment. Helping him see and feel different shapes as you interact together will lay the foundation for learning letter names and sounds later on.
Let your preschooler have fun identifying and naming objects with this Picture Toss game that will get her moving and laughing. It’s an engaging way to help build your child’s vocabulary.
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