Children's Gift List: Top Educational Toys For Childhood Development

By Author: Amanda Bernard
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Ensuring your child engages with these toys and activities at home and within their child care environment, can help prepare them for future success in school.
1. Holiday Journal
Studies have shown that even young children enjoy exploring writing and that their scribbles and scrawls have meaning to them. This type of writing is called prewriting and it helps children develop language and literacy skills. Employing these simple tips to inspire your child's creativity will help their early literacy development:

Encourage writing for a reason and make writing a part of daily life
Invite your child to dictate his or her story into a tape recorder, then write the story down and read it back to your child
Inspire an art book by encouraging your child to draw holiday memories

2) A Great Book
Incorporating reading into early child education is important to your child's development. In fact, a recent 'Back-to-Preschool' survey revealed that 78% of preschool parents surveyed believe reading is important for kindergarten readiness. For a list of simple steps to encourage early childhood literacy and some great book titles, check-out