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Learning Tip: Rhyme time

Word play and rhyming games help your toddler develop phonological awareness, an essential prereading skill. One key to phonological awareness is understanding that beginning and ending sounds can be put together to make words. Rhyming is one of the first ways your child demonstrates phonological awareness.

When you read stories aloud, ask your child to listen for rhyming words and clap when he hears them. Read nursery rhymes, poems and rhyming books, and clap together on the rhyming words.