Tag Activity Storybook Dora the Explorer: Dora Goes to School - LeapFrog Tag Reading System box pack

Tag Activity Storybook Dora the Explorer: Dora Goes to School LeapFrog Tag Reading System - box pack

Key Features and Benefits: Phonics skills Before they can read independently, children must learn the relationship of letters to their sounds and be able to distinguish individual sounds, or phonemes, within words. Phonics skills help children sounds out new words. The alphabet Knowing the letters of the alphabet is one of the first steps toward learning to read and write. Introducing letters to young children helps them learn to recognize the different shapes and names - an early indicator for reading achievement. Vocabulary While infants and toddlers learn vocabulary by memory, older children use word structure and context to help understand the meaning of a word. They identify synonyms and antonyms. They use prefixes, suffixes and base words to build their own vocabulary. Early number sense As early as 6 months, babies begin to understand the concept of numbers, noticing small groups of one, two or three things. As children develop number sense they learn to count by ones, skip count and count backwards, gaining the foundation for operations. Children who have good number sense find learning operations like addition and subtraction much easier. Number recognition To begin their study of math, children must distinguish numerals from letters and shapes and understand that numbers are symbols for amounts.