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5 Easy and Fun Ways Parents Can Build Phonological Awareness for their Child
Is Phonological Awareness for parents or for schools to worry about? I will show you why it’s important for parents to think about Phonological Awareness as well as teachers. I’ll also give you lots of easy and fun ideas for ways that you can support and build this crucial skill with your child. What is the difference between ‘Phonics’ and ‘Phonological Awareness’… and why should you care? I wonder how familiar you are with these terms, and more importantly, what they actually mean for your child’s achievement in reading. Are these terms for the teachers to worry about? Or what if there were some easy ways for as a parent…
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15 Funny Books for Kids That’ll Make You Giggle
For a lot of kids, reading can feel like hard work. Reading skills are only acquired through a lot of practice, patience, and hard work! But that doesn’t mean it can’t be fun, too. These 14 funny books for kids will help them to see the joy in reading! Reading is incredibly beneficial for learning. Strong reading skills have a knock-on effect for your child’s whole school life! After all, reading is needed for every single subject. Even math and science are ‘language heavy’, and as kids get older, independent reading and tricky vocabulary in all subjects become the norm. When kids enjoy something, they are so much more motivated…
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5 Little Known Tips to Teach Your Toddler to Read
As parents, it’s vital to know how to teach your toddler to read. You want them to start off school on a strong foundation to have every advantage for academic success. Literacy is more and more important in the modern world. Even in a job that doesn’t revolve around it, we still need to be able to fill in forms, read instructions, and generally have enough literacy to get online or to deal with banks and other organisations. Sometimes we might think this means launching into teaching the alphabet, sounding out words, and forming letters. But these things aren’t the most important thing when you want to teach your toddler…
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5 Simple Tips to Make Reading With Your Kids Educational and Fun
Reading with your kids can be so much fun and a great time to bond…. but it can also feel like a daily chore, especially when your kids aren’t enthusiastic about it! These simple tips will show you how to make reading with your kids loads of fun, while also ensuring it’s both educational and effective. There are a lot of reading stats that show us the importance of reading to kids, but how can you make the most of reading with your kids? 1. LET YOUR CHILD LEAD THE WAY To make reading with your kids fun, you will need to park your own agenda! This sounds…
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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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5 Powerful Ways to Improve Your Child’s Vocabulary
In this post, I will show you 5 powerful ways to improve your child’s vocabulary to set them up for success in school and life! Did you know that the size of your child’s vocabulary as they enter school can be used to predict their academic success years later? It’s a crucially important area! Having a strong vocabulary will help your child to learn to read more easily, as well as to engage with all areas of the curriculum (even subjects like math and science are dependent on a strong language foundation!) And it’s not all about academics- it will help them socially, too. You could say that there is…
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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…
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15 Easy Speech Delay Exercises for Your Toddler to Boost Language Fast!
Have fun with these 15 awesome toddler speech delay exercises that are designed by a Speech and Language Pathologist and will help your toddler to talk before you know it! Exercises are a fantastic way to teach language and to get your toddler talking! These exercises are fun and motivating for your child, and they provide a focus for you to teach your child new skills. If you find these 15 exercises helpful, why not check out my big book of 50 easy exercises to get your toddler talking? Repetition is important in learning these new skills, so don’t worry about doing your child’s favorite exercises over and over if…
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10 Essential Questions on Parenting Answered By a Therapist
These 10 essential questions on parenting were taken from questions on forums that I see come up again and again. The very process of parenting raises questions so I hope that this post will help out with giving more info on even just one! I’ve linked to further resources for each question so you can read more about questions you’re particularly interested in. These parenting questions won’t answer every question you have, but hopefully it’s a good guide for some of the most common questions about parenting. The 10 essential questions about parenting: WHAT IS CHILD DEVELOPMENT? WHEN SHOULD I BE WORRIED THAT MY TODDLER ISN’T TALKING? WHAT SHOULD…
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The Ultimate Guide to Help Your Child Speak Clearly
Get the speech screen Shop Articulation packs It can confusing and alarming for parents when their child has difficulties with their speech. This can range from mild speech difficulties when they miss a few sounds, or it can be severe, making them difficult to understand and causing a lot of frustration and anxiety- for everyone involved! Whichever is the case, there’s a huge amount that parents can do to help- this guide is everything you need to know to help your child speak clearly. I hope it’s helpful for you! If you are concerned about your child’s language development, check out these 5 easy tips to encourage your toddler to…
