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5 Surprising Skills to Build Before You Teach Your Toddler the Alphabet
While it’s important to teach your toddler the alphabet, these 5 key skills are important to focus on first. These 5 skills will provide the foundation needed to make the jump to literacy and succeed in school. The stronger they are, the easier the jump to literacy will be! There’s something a little stressful about school being ‘just around the corner,’ right? It’s as if there’s a standard our kids have to meet before they’re ready for this big milestone. We think we have to ‘get everything sorted’ before school. And more often than that, this involves drill work in ABC, going over and over the alphabet until your child…
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7 Surprising Benefits of Reading To Your Toddler
We know that reading to your toddler has clear benefits. It helps them learn the alphabet, and get ready for reading in school, right? While these aren’t bad things, there are so many more benefits of reading to your toddler! Reading is a special time and boosts your toddler’s development in a whole range of ways. In this post, I’ll cover 7 surprising benefits that reading to your toddler will bring. 1. YOU WILL BUILD THEIR THEORY OF MIND Theory of Mind involves the ability to ‘think about your thinking’, and to understand the thinking of others. It develops gradually throughout childhood. Why is it so important? Well, knowing…
