Research on early childhood brain development clearly shows the importance of storytime for toddlers. Toddler programs set the stage for the development of increased attention spans, superior language development, and a love of literature and libraries. The repetition of fingerplays, songs, and stories further enhance a child's cognitive development.
Young children learn about pounds, feet and inches through ilustrated text with repetition and simple sentences. These books introduce young readers to measurement and location words. The text uses repetition and simple sentence structure to keep the pages turning. The images and text support each other, and both support the beginning reader.
This playful dinosaur will slither, skid, slide and glide his way into children's hearts! Encourage children to explore synonyms with the loveably cheeky Thesaurus Rex, who has an irresistible way with words. Action-verb and noun synonyms feature throughout Laya Steinberg's energetic text which, paired with award-winning Debbie Harter's vibrant watercolors, will engage boys and girls alike. The alliteration, repetition and rhyme featured in this delightful book will also help to foster speaking and listening skills.
This book aims to help learners of English first to identify and then to say the sounds of the language correctly. The author stresses the importance of intensive listening, to enable the student to recognize similarities and differences between sounds, and to place a sound in its particular group. Practice drills for the student cover the repetition of minimal pairs and using the problem sounds in words and sentences, both in isolation and contrast.
