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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See if your toddler can identify you and other family members just by hearing your voices. Hearing, isolating and identifying voices will help to attune your little one to sounds and lay the groundwork for hearing and identifying the more subtle sounds that make up words.
This activity will let your little one see how her mouth moves as she names objects. Moving parts of her face and seeing it happening in the mirror can be quite fascinating.
Helping your child become more sensitive to sounds in words is an important skill needed for future reading success. In this activity, your child will have practice identifying and isolating rhymes using a very special word – her own name!
In this activity, your child will learn to use objects to visually represent the sounds in words. In order to become strong readers and spellers, children must learn to segment and blend individual sounds in words.
Singing silly or familiar songs to your baby during daily routines will help him develop the foundations of spoken, and later written, language.
In addition to being a useful life skill, cutting helps to develop the same muscles necessary for holding a pencil and writing at a later age. If you take the time to put together a Cutting Kit, it will encourage frequent and successful cutting practice.
In these first few months of life, your baby will begin to have more control of his grasp and will make an effort to hold onto objects and toys. Here are some ideas to help your little one develop better strength and fine motor control.
Listening activities help children attune to sounds and lay the groundwork for hearing and identifying the more subtle sounds that make up words. In this fun activity, your child will be asked to listen for and act upon a super word.
During their first year, babies begin to understand spoken words before they actually utter their first true word. Simple repetitive songs and rhymes can be introduced as soon as birth to help your baby sustain and expand her interest in listening to speech sounds.
You can foster the development of your baby’s hand grasp by placing an infant rattle or soft toy in the palm of her hand and letting her close her fingers around the object.
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