Know-Its: The Link To Reading

Mr. Know-It's Pre-Readiness Kit teaches and reinforces basic skills to lay the foundation for capable readers. The program begins with Colors and Shapes, progressing through Classification, Rhyming, Letter Recognition, Rebus Reading, Beginning Sounds and More.

Mr. Know-Its's Pre-Readiness: Shapes and Colors provides opportunities for children to use oral language. Children learn to "speak up" by playing games using complete sentences. They also describe various shapes, colors, sizes, and textures as they classify objects. By using descriptive words in context, children's vocabularies are increased. Games and manipulatives provide opportunities for children to apply new vocabulary skills.

Mr. Know-It's Pre-Readiness: Alphabet Fun provides children an awareness of all letters, particularly the ones in their name. By exposing children to all uppercase and lowercase letters, children who are capable will start making connections to print. Later, in Beginning Sounds, each letter and sound will be taught in detail, but the purpose of Alphabet Fun is to increase print awareness. Singing, games, and manipulatives make matching uppercase and lowercase letters fun and easy to learn.

Mr. Know-It’s Pre-Readiness: Beginning Sounds targets beginning sounds. Through Phonemic Awareness listening activities, pictures, and letter/sound associations, children learn to identify beginning sounds. Using Velcro® picture cards engages children in active learning as they match cards to letters in Write-On Book: Sounds. Games and puzzles give many ways for children to reinforce beginning sound identification.