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Rhyming Dust Bunnies!
Rhyming is one way that children learn to hear that words are made up of smaller parts. Reading books like Rhyming Dust Bunnies by Jan Thomas and sharing rhymes helps children hear the smaller parts...
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Pictures of the Familiar
When you are choosing books for young children, they like ones that have pictures of things that are familiar to them, for example, a picture of an apple. You can talk about how it tastes—sweet, how...
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Learning About Shapes
Look for a couple of same-shaped items that are familiar to baby. Use various words to compare how the items differ from each other. You might say “Look at these crackers. This one is a square...
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Butterfly Finger Puppet
Make learning new vocabulary words fun by creating finger puppets your child can use with rhymes. Click here to learn how to make a butterfly finger puppet! Then sing this song and make your butterfly...
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Nonfiction Fun
Nonfiction books are a great alternative for children who aren’t as interested in fictional stories. The Library's nonfiction books are not shelved with the picture books, but ask at the Youth...
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Can You Moo?
Phonological awareness means learning about sounds in words. Hearing and learning animal sounds helps children hear different kinds of sounds. Show your child pictures of different animals in books...
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Talking With Your Child
Talk about your day with your child. Discuss what you did first, next, and last, leading up to bedtime. Stories, like daily life, have a sequence of events. This discussion helps to foster narrative...
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Poof!
Some books incorporate the text into the pictures, which is a good way to help children become aware of the words on the page. This helps build the early literacy skill of print awareness. In the book,...
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The Shape of Letters
My Beak,Your Beak by Melanie Walsh explores sameness and differences—concepts that will help your child get ready to read. Knowing that letters look similar but are different from each other is part of...
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Photographs in Books
When reading a book to your child, make it a point to talk about the pictures. Explaining the meaning of words helps increase your child’s vocabulary, an important skill your child needs long before he...
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