Category: Language and Literacy
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Bath Time Story Time
Your Child Will Learn
A way to make bath time more fun
Here’s What to Do
- Tell your child that tonight’s bath time is going to be a story time. Ask what character they’d like the story to be about.
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Let’s Get Dressed
Your Child Will Learn
Clothing vocabulary words
Here’s What to Do
- Put out some of your child’s clothing on their bed, a table, or flat surface.
- Pick up each clothing item and say its name as your child gets dressed.
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Match and Model Letters
Your Child Will Learn
To notice how letters are written and re-create letters with clay.
Here’s What to Do
- Select a place with a flat surface. Set out modeling clay, play dough, or air-dry clay (see below for homemade play
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Words in Books
Your Child Will Learn
Written words in books have meanings that correspond with the pictures
Here’s What to Do
- Choose a book with short sentences and lots of pictures.
- While reading the book to your child, ask them questions about
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Draw a Memory
Your Child Will Learn
To communicate their ideas with pictures and words.
Here’s What to Do
- At the end of the week, ask your child to remember one fun thing that happened that week.
- Ask them to draw or paint
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Our Word Wall
Your Child Will Learn
How to learn new vocabulary words and sort these words into groups
Here’s What to Do
- Choose a place in your home where you can display a collection of words with your child or children; make
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Draw a Story
Your Child Will Learn
About the elements of stories in books and how to re-tell stories
Here’s What to Do
- Read a picture book that your child is very familiar with. As you read, point out story elements like characters, settings,
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All the Parts of Books
Your Child Will Learn
Learn about the parts of books and where to find them
Here’s What to Do
- Use a book that your child is very familiar with as an example to explore. As you read, explain the parts