Know-Its: The Link To Reading

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.

Shapes and Colors also trains children to listen to words, the first step in Phonological Awareness. By singing and clapping to their names, children become aware that words have word parts. Later they will hear individual beginning sounds, but counting word parts increases children's ability to "tune into" words.

Children become excited about reading when they can recognize their own names. Print awareness and writing work together to make these connections.

Includes:

• Mr. Know-It's Write-On Book
  • Shapes and Colors (With Velcro® Shape Cards)
• Activities
  • Feature Teacher
  • Teaching Cards
  • Pattern-It (With Magnetic Shapes)
  • X-It (With Magnetic X's)
  • Tic Tac Shape
  • Four in a Row
    
• Major Concepts
  • Shapes, Colors, Size, Texture, Hearing Word Parts