Stamp Your Letters
Let your child have fun exploring letters by using rubber alphabet letter stamps and an ink pad.
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Animal Sound Basket
The ability to hear and pay attention to the sounds in our environment and in our language is an important prereading skill. This activity will give your child fun practice in listening to and identifying animal sounds.
Teddy Says
A fun way to see that your toddler really is learning a lot of language is to play games where he can show off all of the words he understands but cannot yet say.
The Write Time
A child who starts writing and drawing first may start reading earlier. The beginning stages of writing include drawing, and this activity encourages you to start a file for your child’s writing to show progress over time.
Name That Word!
Four-year-olds love all sorts of games. We can teach little ones all about segmenting and blending sounds within words long before they learn to read with this fun puppet activity.
Stories to Grow On
Storytelling is one of the oldest ways of communicating about ideas and events. In this activity, you and your child can practice the tradition of storytelling by creating your own characters and experiences.
Fun With Positional Words
The use of positional words is important for your child’s understanding of space and location. This activity gives your child a chance to listen closely to directions and illustrate his understanding of positional words while making a work of art!
Delightful Directions
You’ve gotten used to helping your child by giving him directions to get through a task. Well, in this activity, the tables are turned! Your child will exercise his expressive language skills by guiding you, step by step, through an activity that he knows by heart.
Find the Letter
Manipulative letters, such as magnetic letters, are important for helping children build letter knowledge at their own pace. This is a fun, active activity where your child will match a magnetic letter to an oversized letter written with sidewalk chalk.
Letter Soup
Small details and shapes of letters are how we tell letters apart. Talk with your child about the characteristics of letters to help her learn to distinguish them. In this activity, children will compare letter shapes as they learn the names of letters.
