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Establishing Strong Letter Recognition in Early Childhood Literacy
Discover how children build strong letter recognition through hands-on activities, playful learning, and teaching uppercase, lowercase, and sounds together.
Pre-Writing Skills: What Comes Before Letters
Pre-writing skills are the foundational abilities children need before forming letters. Learn what comes before handwriting and simple ways to support your preschooler’s fine motor development through play, movement, and early literacy experiences.
How to Support Your 5- and 6-Year-Olds’ Transition to a New Classroom
Helping your 5 and 6 year old transition to a new classroom can feel overwhelming, but small, supportive routines at home make a big difference. Discover simple ways to build confidence, ease separation, and support early literacy development during the back-to-school transition.
How to Encourage Your Preschooler to ‘Write’ Their Own Stories
Preschoolers are natural storytellers long before they can write words. Discover simple, playful ways to encourage your child to create their own stories through drawing, pretend play, sentence starters, and hands-on activities that build early literacy skills.
How to Make Learning Possible Over the Summer: A Parent's Guide to Balancing Camp, Travel, and Learning
Looking for ways to balance summer camp and learning? Discover simple strategies to keep your preschooler building early literacy and reading skills all summer while enjoying camps, vacations, and family fun.
Travel-Friendly Literacy Games for Road Trips
Fun travel-friendly literacy games for preschoolers that turn road trips into learning opportunities. Build phonics, vocabulary, and early reading skills with simple activities kids will love.
Stress-Free Summer Learning Plan
Summer learning doesn’t have to feel like schoolwork. With just a few minutes a day, parents can help preschoolers maintain early reading and vocabulary skills through simply, playful routines. At Reading in Preschool, our leveled summer packets make it easy to prevent summer slide while keeping learning fun, stress-free, and part of everyday life.
Will Your Child Be Ready for Kindergarten?
Starting Kindergarten isn’t about knowing everything — it’s about having the right foundation. At Reading in Preschool, we build essential early literacy, listening, and handwriting skills so children enter Kindergarten confident, prepared, and excited to learn.