Another "Pre-preschool" concept that can get missed, but is great to teach to boost understanding. 

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Another episode related to a "pre-preschool" skill that I like to teach: categories. I give suggestions for first categories to target and how to teach them in your daily routines. 

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Learning to count with 1:1 correspondence is an essential skill to learn, upon which we base future math learning. I discuss the difference between counting in rote and in correspondence, and how to build these skills. 

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This was such a fun podcast to record! I go into how to start working on having your child recall stories in short, 3-4 part sequences, and I also talk about a strategy I use for building stories and working with a child's imagination on an even higher level.

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I offer journal entries, YouTube videos, and short courses to optimize your toddler's speech development.

Link to Sequencing Cards: 

Amazon.com: Super Duper Publications | Sequencing Fun Deck Flash Cards | Educational Learning Resource for Children : Toys & Games

I cover a few ways to help build higher level literacy skills for your older toddler by recognizing the sounds letters make and using branding to talk about the sounds that make up the logos of your child's favorite places to go in your community.

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This episode builds on making inferences and talks about higher level language skills that can be built through work on making predictions and discussing problem solving with early readers using the pictures in the books. 

Before children are able to predict and make predictions about stories and reading, they use visual information to make inferences about circumstances in stories and pictures.

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With so much of our world being presented in visual form, children are not encouraged as much to use their imagination to generate mental pictures of the world around them, and this can effect ability to comprehend reading in the future. Working on learning how to make a "picture in your head" of common objects at a young age can help with learning as children become readers. 

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This is the first episode in a series of strategies to teach higher level language skills to older toddlers (2 1/2-3 years) who are comprehending language very well. Idioms are used frequently in our daily lives, but are not literal. There are many books on the market that help visualize idioms. I cover a few common idioms and a few from other countries as well!

Check out my website at PlayTeachTalk.

I offer journal entries, YouTube videos, and short courses to optimize your toddler's speech development.

Progress in language skills can sometimes be less transparent than it is in other areas of child development.

Check out my website at PlayTeachTalk. 

I offer journal entries, YouTube videos, and short courses to optimize your toddler's speech development.