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How to Use the Napping House to Promote Language and Early Literacy Skills

  If you are a parent to a young child, a speech language pathologist, or an educator, The Napping House by Audrey and Don Wood is the perfect addition to your library. Amazon affiliate links have been included. In this post, I’ll explain...

Tell Me a Story: Favorite Books to Promote Sequential Storytelling Skills

Favorite Books to Promote Storytelling Skills Narratives are stories. Telling stories is an essential life skill. There are many children, adolescents, and adults who struggle to tell a story. Those with poor narrative abilities have an...

Build Your Child’s Vocabulary with Synonyms and Antonyms

Vocabulary size is extremely important in developing reading skills. "Children with larger vocabularies become better readers, writers, thinkers, and overall communicators." - Kimberly Scanlon, M.A., CCC-SLP An excellent way to grow your...

How to Make Connections While Reading with Your Child

  Interested in developing your child’s oral language skills? How about his reading comprehension? Or, even his metacognition (awareness of one’s knowledge)? If the answer is yes to any of these questions, then you should...

7 Ways to Create a Literacy Rich Environment

A literacy rich environment is purposefully designed to stress the importance of reading, writing, speaking, and listening. To design a literacy rich environment at home include some of the following: Interesting books & different types...

Help My Child to Read Series: Going on a Picture Walk

Help My Child to Read Series: Going on a Picture Walk In my book, Learning to Read is a Ball I introduce you to a shared learning activity known as a picture walk. This post includes a video that will further explain the benefits of a picture...

Help My Child to Read Series: Preschool Alliteration Books

Help My Child to Read Series: Preschool Alliteration Books What Is Alliteration? As I define in the parent guide of my book, Learning to Read is a Ball alliteration is: “The repetition of the same sound at the beginning of words in a...

Help My Child to Read Series: Preschool Rhyming Books that Will Make You Laugh

Help My Child to Read Series: Preschool Rhyming Books that Will Make You Laugh If Fisher-Price didn't already take it, my new slogan would be "Laugh and Learn". There's no question about it, I like to laugh during my sessions and I like when...

Help My Child To Read: 4 Tips to Select Print Salient Books

Print-salient books entice children to observe print and motive conversation about print. Increasing your child's print awareness is an important step in preparing a young child to learn to read.  In a previous post, I define salient print and give...