Recognizing letters of the alphabet is the beginning of reading. Many children’s TV shows have fun ways to introduce young children to their ABC’s and their sounds.
Phonics skills are one valuable asset of learning to read and are fun for young children. Learning the letter sounds with fun pictures also helps children learn the names of animals and other objects.
Little Reader Blocks by Smart Monkey Toys are important preschool learning toys for children and belong in all homes and schools. These blocks are especially useful for English as a second language or a school that has non-English speaking children enrolled.
Because all children love playing with blocks, having blocks with the 100 basic sight words on colored blocks will make learning simple words and forming short sentences easy and will prepare them for reading books. They can also learn that some words are verbs, nouns and so forth.
When you want to teach nouns you can have the children pull out all the green blocks or blue for the verbs. The white blocks are prepositions and the yellow blocks are your adjectives and red blocks provide you with 30 pronouns. As your children learn the different words they can help point them out in the books you read to them.
It is a good idea for your school and the preschool you have your children enrolled in to have many large print books that can be read to them. Stories that have a lot of rhymes and repetition will help children learn and remember their letters, words and sounds.
After the books are read to your children leave them out where they can pick them up and look at them during fee play time. Children learning the phonics method of reading will get the idea that reading involves thinking, looking, sounding out and saying their words.
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