Literacy & Language

Vocabulary building activities

Learning and using new words for objects, actions, feelings and ideas.

31 activities

Look for a duckling on the farm in a short story with repeated questions, big pictures, and animal sounds.

Story & talk

Sing a short, repetitive song while your child helps put away blocks, a book and a doll. The pictures show where each one goes.

Songs & fingerplays

Show animal pictures and have fun copying their movements. Your child can walk, sway, crawl or move in their own way.

Movement & dance

A short sensory activity to touch ice, watch colored water, and discover what happens when colors mix.

Sensory play

Show your child large cards featuring eight farm animals and talk about the pictures together.

Picture cards

A baby who can sit explores large kitchen objects while an adult names what the baby touches, sees and hears.

Sensory play

Show your baby six black-and-white ocean animals and talk about them using short phrases.

Baby look cards

Activities