Reading 1000 books before kindergarten gives your child a great head start towards literacy, an amazing advantage in vocabulary exposure, and it's a lot of fun!

When you consider the number 1000, it sounds like a lot. To read that many books with your zero to five year old child seems outrageous. Why a challenge to read 1000 books before kindergarten? Reading 1000 books before kindergarten helps kids get an important foundation in literacy that will impact them for their whole

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Building compound words and recognizing the parts of compound words is an essential pre-reading skill to develop. Once can't easily put words together without first hearing the parts of words!

Before a young reader can parse together phonemes to form a word, they have hear the parts of the words. Hearing the parts of compound words and blending words together is then an essential pre-reading skill to develop. The hands-on compound words activities we put together were fun for my school-resistant preschooler. My five-year-old daughter rarely

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