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3 & 4 YEAR OLDS
3 & 4 YEAR OLDS
- Set aside time everyday to read your child.
- Sing the alphabet song.
- Do alphabet puzzles with your child.
- Use inexpensive plastic letters to help your child make their name or simple words.
- Help your child make letters out of clay, cookie dough, or salt dough.
- Encourage your child to tell stories to you. Write down the stories that your child dictates. Bind them into a book. Have your child read the books he creates to you or another sibling.
- Use words to create rhymes. For example, “Can you think of a word that sounds the same as hat?”
- Write letters on seashells, rocks or blocks, help your child use these to build simple words.
- Encourage your child to write letters even if they make up the spelling and construction of the letters.