Encourage a love of reading from day one with this binder full of activities that will help you teach important pre-reading skills to your young child. This binder is full of great, easy to understand information about how children develop reading skills and what you can do to help. Over 20 book-related activities are divided into the areas of language, math, science, art, music, dramatic play and social/emotional awareness and promote the following concepts:

• Print and book awareness
• Phonemic awareness (sounds within words)
• Story concepts (beginning, middle, end; setting; characters)
• Listening comprehension (anticipating text, making predictions, making connections)

Activities are centered around the books:

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