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Because a Great Book (or Toy) Teaches the Alphabet
Igniting a love of reading involves both the tales that a good book spins and the construction of those tales. And the alphabet is of course the first tool of your little language builder. How best to learn that delightful (and delightfully arbitrary) set of 26? Here are our tried-and-true ideas: Chicka Chicka Boom Boom -- This book is a widely-loved modern classic, frequently--and properly,
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A Great Book Is One You Make Yourself
Perhaps the best way to entice your child to be a reader is to enlist his help as an author. Giving even the littlest preschoolers a journal for their to record their scribbles in gives them a way to see themselves as writers. And as with so many things, they aren't in the least bit bothered when their parents can't understand their marks -- they can decipher them just fine! And beyond
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Savvy Picks for December, 2008
Our top ten posts about the wonders of rituals and routines:
- A Season of Rituals
- Savvy Welcomes Betsy Brown Braun on Helping Keep the Fa-La-La in the Holidays with Your Children
- Savvy Picks: Best Children's Books of 2008
- Savvy Welcomes Lyn Colwell and Corey Colwell-Lipson on Greening the Holidays
- Teaching Your Child About Giving Instead of Getting at the Holidays
- Homemade Gifts to Make with Preschoolers
- How to Keep Rituals a Bit Flexible, a Little Lively, and a Lot Unexpected
- Savvy Welcomes Ginger Carlson on How to Give Experiences Not More Things
- Inspired Indoor Activities for the Shortest Day of the Year
- Holidays Are Delicious
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