A new alphabet song to sing and share with your preschool child!

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Playing with Playdough Helps Develop Fine Motor Control When is a child ready to learn to write? When he is ready! That’s the best answer, although not very helpful. You cannot teach a child to write before his or her muscles and coordination are developed enough to hold a pencil, make tiny marks and notice [...]

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Infants Can Learn To Read To really understand how this works, I recommend that you get a copy of Glenn and Janice Doman’s book, “How to teach your baby to read”. The hardcover copy has dropped to $15.61 at amazon.com, and the paperback can be had for under $5.00 used. But to get started, here’s [...]

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To Raise a Reader, Foster a Love of Books There is a lot you can do to help a child get ready for reading, even if you decide not to teach your baby to read.  Such a child will enter kindergarten eager to learn, and primed for success.  This readiness is not hard to do, [...]

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You Can Teach Your Baby to Read, but Should You? There is a lot of emphasis these days on teaching young children to read. Many preschools and day care centers focus on worksheets that supposedly “teach” letter and sound recognition. Some children are actually flunking kindergarten! When I was five years old, kindergarten was not [...]

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