Category: Language and Literacy
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It’s Book Time
Your Child Will Learn
How to explore books through the senses (looking, touching, and with their mouth)
Here’s What to Do
- Choose a book that will gain the interest of your infant (soft books, books with textures, board books, picture
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Book Exploration
Your Child Will Learn
About the important part of books (like the cover, pages, pictures, and words).
Here’s What to Do
- Set out some books that will gain the interest of your child (soft books, books with textures, board books,
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Letters Around Us
Your Child Will Learn
Recognize letters in words that are seen in familiar places
Here’s What to Do
- Plan a visit to a familiar place with letters and words in the environment, like a street in your neighborhood or a
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Characters in Books
Your Child Will Learn
Describe main characters and their actions in books
Here’s What to Do
- Staple a few sheets of paper together to create a journal for recording information about book characters
- Read a book that your child is
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Paint Your Letter
Your Child Will Learn
To write the first letter of their name.
Here’s What to Do
- Spread out newspaper or a tablecloth, and set up large pieces of paper to paint on. Put a small amount of non-toxic paint in
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Our Family Names
Your Child Will Learn
To write more uppercase letters of the alphabet.
Here’s What to Do
- Ask your child to choose types of drawing and coloring materials for this activity; some examples include crayons, markers, color pencils, or paint.
- Ask
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Describing a Favorite Place
Your Child Will Learn
To use adjectives and other words to describe a familiar place.
Here’s What to Do
- Ask your child to think of their favorite place. If possible, go to that place or look at a picture of
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Community I Spy
Your Child Will Learn
To identify the beginning, middle, and end sounds of spoken words with help from adults.
Here’s What to Do
- Plan an outing in your community, like a visit to the park, a pond, or shopping center.
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Syllable Movement
Your Child Will Learn
Count 1-3 syllables in words with help from adults.
Here’s What to Do
- With your child, choose 3 different movements you’ll do together. (For example, tapping your head, placing hands on your hips, touching your knees).
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Waves, Taps, & Claps
Your Child Will Learn
To pay attention to rhyming words in songs
Here’s What to Do
- Choose a simple rhyme or rhyming song to say to your child.
- Wave your hands, tap your child’s body, or clap to emphasize the