As a preschool teacher to four year-olds, I’m intrigued with one of Wonderbrains’ new products, Alpharings. Alpharings are designed by Educational Insights, an educational product company that has a 50 year history of providing hands-on activities to reinforce early learning skills. Alpharings come with 130 adjustable plastic illustrated rings (five of each letter) and an instructional guide.
Reading is one of those major milestones in a young child’s development. As a parent, we wait with baited breath for the day to come that we don’t have to read Harold and the Purple Crayon one more time to our child because they can now read it to themselves. It is with joyful celebration that we acknowledge their accomplishment of the written word.
But when does all this reading begin? It starts with the first book the parent picks up and shares with the child, at one day, one week, one month or older. The things we, as parents, do with our children at a very young age prepare them for becoming sucessful independent readers. Read more…
