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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During your baby’s first few months, she is learning how to focus her vision and attend to herself and others. You can support this important developmental stage by incorporating face-to-face social routines when your baby shows interest in herself or you!
This activity will entertain your curious little one’s senses as they grab and touch, look and listen and even taste and smell! There will be many opportunities for both of you to describe what you see, hear, and touch to build a rich vocabulary.
In this activity, you will use words in connection with concrete objects and situations to help your child develop an understanding of positional words.
Here is a simple activity that will encourage your child to tell you about an amazing adventure she is about to take you on, introducing them to unfamiliar words and experiment with new sounds.
In this activity, your child can enter Shoe World, where she will have fun wearing new shoes while she learns to describe and make observations about them.
Through this activity, you will help your child develop her observation skills, increase her ability to express herself and, without realizing it, she will be using mathematical and scientific language.
In this activity, your child will use some of her five senses to guess the mystery content in a brown paper lunch bag, encouraging her to use their oral language skills.
Joint attention is very important for the development of language because it provides the social foundation to support language learning. During this phase of development, infants begin to increase the length of time they share their attention with an adult and a third party or object.
The interaction between an infant and those adults closest to her is essential for the natural development of communication and language. You can increase blossoming communication development by adapting your behaviors to the “rhythm” of your infant’s needs.
Experts agree that sound play may help pave the foundation for later developing phonological skills, which are important for learning how to read. Your baby will be excited to share this activity of imitating environmental sounds!
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