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Accordion Books
LS - Parent & Child | Make an accordion fold book for your baby, and support language skills. Step-by-step crafts instructions using cardboard and family photos.

Rub-a-dub Read
by Risa Young
LS - Parent & Child | Create a bathtime book for your baby using family photos or magazine pictures. Develops baby's eye-hand coordination, object recognition, and fine-motor skills.

Why Colors and Shapes Matter
by Ellen Booth Church
LS - Scholastic Parents | Colors and shapes encourage children to define and organize the world around them. See how colors and shapes are the building blocks for a variety of life skills.

How to Communicate with Your Baby
by Alice Sterling Honig, PhD
LS - Scholastic Parents | Communicate with your baby in ways that encourage language development. Tips for creating a secure attachment and teaching your child to recognize speech patterns.

Choosing the Best Books for Your Child
by Shama Narang
LS - Scholastic Parents | Advice about choosing books for your child's home library. How to select age-appropriate books. Titles that appeal to you kid's interests, and related activities.

20 Key Language Milestones
LS - Parent & Child | 20 language development milestones in children ages birth to six. See how language and speech progress as a child develops normally. What to do if you think your child's speech may be delayed.

Quick Clicks: 7 Tips for Encouraging Early Literacy
LS - Parent & Child | Encourage your child's literacy skills well before he learns to read! Use these seven tips to promote early literacy. They include everything from parent-child bonding to playing rhyming games.

The Learning Habit
by Akimi Gibson
LS - Scholastic Parents | Start the school year by setting up consistent learning routines for both you and your child. Five ideas to help you encourage language development.

5 Important Speech Milestones
LS - Scholastic Parents | 5 Important Speech Milestones

For the Love of Words
by Susan Canizares PhD
LS - Parent & Child | Help your child build a rich vocabulary, and in turn, strong reading and writing skills. Discusses how word knowledge leads to reading comprehension.

Raising a Reader
by Abby Margolis Newman
LS - Scholastic Parents | As a parent, you can nurture a love of books and words. Tips and suggestions for raising a reader. Encourages role modeling by reading for your child.

A Love of Learning
by Ellen Booth Church
LS - Parent & Child | September ,2006
How to inspire you child's lifelong love of learning. Ways to use his natural curiosity and creative thinking to spark the joy of learning. How a child's observation of the world begins at home.

Baby's Story Time
by Alice Sterling Honig, PhD
LS - Parent & Child | Create your own book with your baby as the star, using colorful photos. A fun way to introduce your baby to reading. Supports language development.

Picture This!
LS - Parent & Child | This homemade picture book encourages early literacy. Supplies and step-by-step instructions. Develops language awareness and recognition skills.

Problem Solving in Action
by Carla Poole and Susan A. Miller EdD
LS - Parent & Child | Problem solving skills develop and change as a child ages. See how toddlers use imitation and preschoolers use trial and error. Also find out how kindergartners use language to solve problems.

Partner with Your Child's Preschool to Promote Literacy
by Ellen H. Parlapiano
LS - Scholastic Parents | Parent-teacher communication is essential to reading readiness. Learn how you can partner with your child's preschool to promote his literacy skills.

Enticing a Restless Reader
by Susan B. Neuman PhD
LS - Parent & Child | Is your child restless while you read? Try changing books and reading routines to keep your child's attention. A shorter book that appeals to your child's interests may do the trick.

Exploring Books with Babies
by Susan Straub
LS - Parent & Child | Dos and don'ts for reading to your baby or toddler under the age of two. Tips for holding your pre-readers attention with book illustrations, textures, and dramatic readings.

Quick Click: 9 Ways to Integrate Reading into Everyday Life
LS - Scholastic Parents | Support reading in everyday life. At-home language arts activities that help kids develop a love of language. Word searches, writing lyrics, and other activities that support reading in everyday life.

Is Your Toddler Ready to Read?
by Alice Sterling Honig, PhD
LS - Scholastic Parents | Learn to recognize the signs that your toddler is ready to read. Eleven common milestones in emergent literacy.

Rhymes for a Reason
LS - Parent & Child | Rhyming and word repetition help babies learn basic math patterns. Using these rhyming songs and hand motions to teach your baby math, while developing language too.

Help with Sensory Overload
by Alice Sterling Honig, PhD
LS - Scholastic Parents | Some babies are more sensitive to sensory stimuli. How you can help with sensory overload. Sensory integration therapies and developing a secure attachment.

Spin a Story
LS - Parent & Child | Turn a simple container into a spinner that serves as a story prompt. Use photos of family members and memorable moments from your baby's life.

Share a Good Book
by Akimi Gibson
LS - Scholastic Parents | Reading aloud to your child can be more than just fun. Find out how you can use storytime to model literary concepts to your child. Also offers tip on choosing books.

It's Story Time!
by Alice Sterling Honig, PhD
LS - Scholastic Parents | Parent tips for storytime with high-energy toddlers. Get them to focus by snuggling with them, keeping the story short, and reading with enthusiasm.

Five Tips for Talking to Your Baby
LS - Parent & Child | Simple, everyday routines that will build your baby's vocabulary. Five ways to communicate with your baby that encourage early language development.

Tell Me a Story
by Susan B. Neuman PhD
LS - Scholastic Parents | Storytelling plays a major role in your child's early language development. Ideas for enhancing story telling. Suggests the use of sock puppets and photo albums.

Reading to a Restless Toddler
by Alice Sterling Honig, PhD
LS - Scholastic Parents | Toddlers often have trouble focusing while you read a story. See how you can get your toddler to sit still and pay attention when you read.

Quick Click: Integrating Reading into Everyday Life for Birth-Age 2
Scholastic Parents | Ten easy tips to enhance pre-reading skills and give your baby a head start on the road to reading. Teach the alphabet and increase vocabulary with these hands-on learning activities. Show your child the signs and symbols you see in everyday life.

Quick Click: 5 Ways to Raise a Reader
Scholastic Parents | 5 ways to raise a reader. Make reading a fun part of your child's everyday life. Involve the family in a book group and be a postive role model.