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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Beginning at around 12 months, toddlers become increasingly curious about cause and effect. Provide toys and experiences in which your child can explore cause and effect relationships.
Infants enjoy listening to the sounds and rhythm of language and focus more on the sounds and words of their home language. Support your baby’s use of language by talking to, reading and singing in your home language.
Children love to be outdoors and to bond with the natural environment. Connect your child to the real world and use the opportunities to build a rich and varied vocabulary.
To increase your child’s expressive vocabulary, let her retell her favorite story with craft stick puppets you can create together.
You can promote your child’s oral language skills by letting him “catch you” making an obvious mistake during everyday experiences.
Before infants are ready to say their first word, they listen very carefully to the speech sounds spoken to them. The development of this skill is an important foundation for learning words a little later.
Your 2-year-old may be able to recall repetitive parts to familiar songs, fingerplays, and nursery rhymes. Create song cards and invite your child to choose a card to sing or say.
As young children begin to use more words to communicate, they will often try to echo the sounds the adult makes, which is an important early skill for later phonological awareness development.
Toddlers love music and movement. Combine rhyme, music and movement as you sing this familiar nursery rhyme and tap out the beat.
Infants typically begin to vocalize syllables at around 6 to 11 months of age. You can be your baby’s “sound play partner” by singing or reciting familiar Mother Goose rhymes.
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